Crip Camp’s Academy Award nomination for Best Documentary Feature prompted conversations about accessibility and inclusion at the Oscars. Despite the groundbreaking nomination, Sam Sawyer argues that the Academy failed to address its historic—and contemporary—acts of ableism. Continue Reading Ableism in the academy: Crip Camp & disability recognition
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There are No Infirmities: Disability in Post-ADA Media
In identifying disability as a category of legally protected civil rights, the ADA assert the rights of disabled people as consumers and workers. Disability’s presence within commercial media—especially tech ads—Bess Williamson argues, inadvertently erased disability as an identity category almost as soon as it appeared. Continue Reading There are No Infirmities: Disability in Post-ADA Media