I applaud the racial diversity that was highlighted but I’m disappointed there wasn’t more attention on Spring Awakening. They did have a performance on the broadcast, which is wonderful. This was the first time a show was on Broadway (not off-Broadway, etc.) that had numerous Deaf actors in lead roles and the actors…

The reason is that just like gender and race, disability is a social construct. We only say that having an extra chromosome is a disability because society decided it was a bad thing. We could have decided having green eyes was a bad thing and then that would be a disability. Being gay used to be considered a mental…