Pause, Rewind, The Tales of a ‘Deaf Girl’
Illustration by Damaris Contreras Deaf girl … and I can’t hear your words – kettle whistles, chair scrapes on wooden floor, and your lips move across the table telling me… Something. again I plug in my tape player – microphone of my lips, switches of […]
This Week in Disability Representation: Examining Reality TV and Modern Drama
In “This Week in Disability Representation”, writer Brianna Schunk provides a space to examine the small examples of disability representation that pop up in daily life. This includes books, plays, TV shows, movies, and other forms of media. In this week’s edition of “This Week in Representation,” the writer will be examining the play Clybourne […]
Inaccessibility at Movie Theaters, Community Activism, and More with Ace Ratcliff
Image Description: An illustration of an empty movie theatre. The screen is projecting the symbol for Closed Captioning. People with disabilities are constantly facing accessibility issues. Whether that’s building access with wheelchair ramps, hearing accessibility and captions, audio translation for those with sight loss, these options are difficult to find. Ace Ratcliff, a writer and […]