#cripping

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Every time an able-bodied actor plays Richard, that’s one less role available for a disabled actor. Since disabled actors are less likely to be cast in roles for able-bodied characters, employment opportunities are limited. This dynamic has the look and feel of structural discrimination on the basis of disability, which laws and standards since the 1990s have sought to curb. In the main, having disabled actors play Richard III isn’t about offering a radically new interpretation of the play or even a better, more realistic performance; it’s about enhancing the visibility and status of disabled actors in the hopes that they will secure more roles, including roles for characters that don’t have disability as a centerpiece. The political goal of disabled actors is to bring the way the world looks and feels onstage closer into line with reality. This means having disabled actors portraying characters in stories about disability, as well as disabled actors playing characters in stories having nothing to do with disability.

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good morning

If I see one more movie that shows disabled people's lives as worthless and portraits their character in a pitting way I am going to loose it. Like??? Can we stop. Can we just stop??? This whole "disabeled people are better off dead" nerative is so flawed in so many ways. And by the way: why are movies about people with disabilities, always, always about them "overcoming obsticals and finding perpouse in life" ?? Ugh. Come on. Be real with me. (I know this isn't my best writing. I will come back to this later once I find the right words. I'm just mad right now.)