What Netflix’s 'The Midnight Club' Gets Right About Disability Representation

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Wicked star denounces ‘aggressive’ and ‘deeply uncomfortable’ comments about character’s disability

Sign up to our free IndyArts newsletter for all the latest entertainment news and reviews Sign up to our free IndyArts newsletter Sign up to our free IndyArts newsletter SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. And not liking Nessa herself is OK. Because she is fictional, that’s totally fine.” She …

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Disabled ‘Wicked’ Star Slams Jokes About Her Character

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LOADING ERROR LOADING “Wicked” actor Marissa Bode is shutting down the “very gross and harmful” jokes about her character’s disability following the release of the Jon M. Chu musical movie adaptation. She then told her 69,000-plus followers that it “is absolutely OK to not like a fictional character,” before going on to say that she found the “aggressive comments and …

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3 weeks, 2 days ago

‘Wicked’s’ Marissa Bode calls out ‘very gross’ comments about Nessarose’s disability

LA Times

Marissa Bode, the first wheelchair user ever to play Nessarose, called out jokes about her character’s disability. “Wicked” actor Marissa Bode is speaking out against the ableist discourse surrounding her character, Nessarose, after the movie musical’s debut. The 24-year-old, who makes her feature film debut in “The Wizard of Oz” prequel adaptation, is the first wheelchair user ever to be …

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Wicked star Marissa Bode calls out ‘aggressive comments’ on her character's disability: ‘Please be kind’

Hindustan Times

Wicked star Marissa Bode is calling out ‘very gross’ comments that has come to her attention surrounding her character Nessarose’s disability in the film which released in theatres November 22. The actor took to TikTok where she said that not liking the character is okay but jokes about her disability are “deeply uncomfortable.” Marissa Bode at the Los Angeles premiere …

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1 month ago

Introducing Marissa Bode, the actor making ‘Wicked’ history in her film debut

LA Times

Marissa Bode, photographed on the Universal Studios Lot, makes her feature film debut as Nessarose in “Wicked.” The cast of “Wicked” is stacked with well-known names: Cynthia Erivo, Ariana Grande, Michelle Yeoh, Jeff Goldblum, Jonathan Bailey, Peter Dinklage, Bowen Yang. “Representation for authentically disabled people is already quite minimal, so to have the opportunity and make a point of it, …

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3 months ago

Disability access 'frustrating' for young people wanting a night out on the town

ABC

It's Friday afternoon and Alessa Dumbrill is planning a night out in the city, but it can be a long process. "If it's a day trip, it could be two, three hours ringing up places, making sure everything's suitable: terrain, doorways, entrances, just the venue itself being spacious enough." "I'm a night owl, so I like to try new restaurants, …

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4 months, 2 weeks ago

Seen and unseen: Disabled characters lost in cinema

Hindustan Times

There have been many Hindi films depicting disabled people as protagonists. “Even though, at the surface, disability seems to be only a plot tool, Saajan somehow manages to resonate with the romantic universe of disabled people.” There have been Hindi films with strong and memorable disabled characters, although many of them do not occupy the centrality which most people attach …

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5 months ago

On writing identity, experiencing joy, and representation

Hindustan Times

Released in 1990, Firdaus Kanga’s semiautobiographical novel Trying to Grow should have ideally resulted in a surge of books at the intersection of disability and sexuality. “Despite the long way we’ve travelled from Kanga’s Trying To Grow, even today, few in the publishing industry push for radical voices.” Not much has changed. I sometimes feel people should instead watch and …

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5 months, 1 week ago

Don’t stereotype, don’t lampoon: Hindi films and SC verdict on portrayal of differently-abled

The Hindu

Differently abled and derision has often gone hand in hand in mainstream Hindi cinema with numerous instances of impairments, visual, speech, physical and others, being used to get laughs – mostly unkind. Humour can be an important element because it sometimes spreads the message about disability and acts as a tool for awareness, said Nipun Malhotra, who filed the petition …

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5 months, 1 week ago

The Supreme Court ruling on portrayal of disability in films | Explained

The Hindu

The story so far: On July 8, while hearing a plea to ban the film Aaankh Micholi for derogatory portrayal of people with disabilities, the Supreme Court in a landmark ruling laid down comprehensive guidelines to prevent stereotyping and discrimination of persons with disabilities in visual media, including films and documentaries. Chandrachud said stereotyping differently abled persons in visual media …

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7 months, 1 week ago

Disabled Kids Are All But Erased In TV And Film. Here's How We're Fixing That.

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As a writer and director, many of my stories spring from personal experiences and aspirations. It led to me writing episodes of the PBS Kids show “Work it Out Wombats,” which in many ways resembled the lives of me and my cousins at my grandmother’s house. My first job as a children’s TV writer was for “Karma’s World,” an animated …

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7 months, 4 weeks ago

‘Disability Intimacy’ starts a long-overdue conversation

LA Times

Book Review Disability Intimacy: Essays on Love, Care, and Desire Edited by Alice Wong Vintage: 384 pages, $19 If you buy books linked on our site, The Times may earn a commission from Bookshop.org, whose fees support independent bookstores. These are the questions at the heart of “Disability Intimacy,” a new book of essays and ephemera collected by the San …

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11 months ago

"A disabled person is not a character trait": Vampire film star Kurt Yaeger talks representation

Salon

“Sunrise,” executive produced by actor and disability activist Kurt Yaeger, is an atmospheric thriller about xenophobia and vampires. Let’s play over here,” and working with Guy who might say, “What if we try this?” When you have a huge budget, you have 100 filmmakers on set. You are a disabled actor and have played disabled characters in shows like “Sons …

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1 year ago

These mothers with disability are proving people wrong, parenting in their own way

ABC

Waking from a coma after five months, Louise Koch thought her lifelong dream of becoming a mother would never happen. Key points: It's estimated about 700,000 Australian children have a parent living with disability Many of those parents experience prejudice and a lack of services to assist them in caring for their kids These mothers have forged their own support …

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1 year, 2 months ago

What that "Sex Education" disability story could learn from reality TV

Salon

When "Sex Education" debuted nearly four years ago, the world was in a different place. Netflix's comedy-drama "Atypical" also garnered harsh audience disapproval for casting neurotypical Keir Gilchrist in the lead role of young adult Sam, who falls on the autism spectrum. So while "Sex Education" may not represent the perfect portrayal of disabilities onscreen, at least it's cast with …

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1 year, 4 months ago

From "Only Murders" to "Sex Lives," disability onscreen is improving but "still not enough"

Salon

On the 33rd anniversary of the passing of the Americans with Disabilities Act, it is important to reflect on how disabilities are portrayed in films and TV series. It has not gone unnoticed that able-bodied actors portraying characters with disabilities often win or get nominated for Oscars, whereas only three disabled performers have ever won Academy Awards: Troy Koster for …

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1 year, 5 months ago

‘It’s like having your legs broken’: This is what it’s really like to fly as a disabled traveller

The Independent

Sophie Morgan is angry and she doesn’t care who knows it. My head spins as she reels off her destinations so far in 2023: “California, New York, Texas, Malibu, the Dominican Republic, France.” open image in gallery Sophie Morgan has travelled all over the world for work She’s currently in South Africa, speaking to me from the world’s first fully …

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1 year, 9 months ago

Finally, there’s a film which accurately depicts disability

The Independent

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1 year, 9 months ago

Why is Hollywood still getting it wrong when it comes to disability?

The Independent

A gamechanger in terms of representation,” it was said after CODA won the Academy Award for Best Picture and Troy Kotsur won Best Supporting Actor for his role as Frank Rossi in the film, becoming only the third actor with a disability to win an Oscar. But just as Green Book’s racial politics received some criticism – it was mauled …

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1 year, 9 months ago

Disabled actors shine in basketball comedy ‘Champions’

Associated Press

NEW YORK — The new comedy “Champions” stars Woody Harrelson and Kaitlin Olson, but the veteran actors have tough competition for the spotlight with some charismatic newcomers. Harrelson’s agent and another producer wanted to remake the original film, called “Campeones” — Spain’s biggest box-office hit in 2018 — and thought the actor and basketball lover would be a great fit. …

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1 year, 9 months ago

The body is a bundle of chaos. Their art was designed to make you feel discomfort

LA Times

Panteha Abareshi, “A BUNDLE OF KINDLING,” 2022, wood, stainless steel, nickel, latex, silicone, assorted medical ephemera, human blood. But, as the artist reminds us, life’s finitude is precisely what makes it meaningful — making it a little bit easier to acknowledge, and even accept, the precariousness in all of our lives. I’m thinking about how the body is no longer …

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2 years ago

Sorry, am I not ‘properly disabled’ enough for you?

The Independent

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2 years ago

What Ability taking people with a disability on recreational camps as sports stars break stigma

ABC

When Sydney woman Nina O'Toole jumps into a pool, rides a jet ski, goes bushwalking or paints mugs to take home, she is having the same experience as thousands of other young people on a recreational camp. Public 'the most challenging part' The camps have been running since 2019 and were started by Ashleigh's brother, retired semi-professional rugby league player …

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2 years ago

I've spent a lifetime searching for someone who looked like me on screen

ABC

From the moment I saw the ramp glistening in the lights at the Australian of the Year awards, I had hope that the tide was finally turning. Created by the genius minds of Angus Thompson and Emma Myers, as well as acclaimed Australian comedian Nina Oyama, Latecomers is unlike anything that's ever been on Australian television before. Groundbreaking, gritty and …

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2 years, 1 month ago

Australian women with disabilities break through Hollywood film industry ranks

ABC

When Chanel Bowen was recovering in a hospital bed, she couldn't know that she would be in Los Angeles in three years working for the biggest family animation business in Hollywood. Key points: Actors and filmmakers with disabilities still face barriers WA filmmaker Chanel Bowen acquired a disability but is working in Hollywood The film industry is becoming more inclusive …

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2 years, 1 month ago

‘Glee’ alum Kevin McHale says he wouldn’t play a character in a wheelchair now

LA Times

Kevin McHale, right, played wheelchair-using student Artie Abrams in “Glee,” while Dianna Agron played Quinn Fabray, a character who used a wheelchair only after getting hurt in a car accident. “I don’t know if Artie could be in it,” McHale said Wednesday to Insider, talking about Artie Abrams, the character he played in the Fox musical series that ran from …

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2 years, 3 months ago

For ‘disabled oracle’ Alice Wong, rest is a radical act

LA Times

Alice Wong, founder and director of the Disability Visibility Project, titled her upcoming memoir “Year of the Tiger: An Activist’s Life,” as a nod to her Chinese zodiac animal sign. But Wong will not read from her hotly anticipated first memoir, “Year of the Tiger: An Activist’s Life,” at its launch party Wednesday night. “But part of my rage — …

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2 years, 5 months ago

How disability is treated

NPR

How disability is treated A story provokes ire and joy Enlarge this image Carlos Carmonamedina for NPR Public Editor Carlos Carmonamedina for NPR Public Editor When journalists frame a story, they create a hidden structure of assumptions to support the premise. "In the case of this story, this was a family the parents of this child didn't necessarily see the …

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2 years, 5 months ago

Ryan O’Connell: ‘I had a fear being gay was going to be really, really difficult as a disabled person’

The Independent

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2 years, 6 months ago

Before Laal Singh Chaddha, a look at Hindi films that pushed the envelope of disability representation in cinema

Firstpost

On the heels of Laal Singh Chaddha’s release, it has sprung to my mind that the representation of the differently-abled in Hindi cinema has been somewhere between being reductive and one-dimensional, to memorable and decent. On the heels of Laal Singh Chaddha’s release, it has sprung to my mind that the representation of the differently-abled in Hindi cinema has been …

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2 years, 9 months ago

Then Barbara Met Alan review: Jack Thorne’s drama brilliantly captures the energy of the famous campaign for disability rights

The Independent

For free real time breaking news alerts sent straight to your inbox sign up to our breaking news emails Sign up to our free breaking news emails Sign up to our free breaking news emails SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. Read our privacy policy “Let’s block the telethon,” whispers …

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2 years, 9 months ago

Australian advertisers striving for inclusiveness through disability representation

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There are four million Australians living with a disability, and yet they rarely see themselves represented in advertising. "This is to ensure we avoid making assumptions about what people with disability need and want and produce authentic advertising material." "It would be good to see a wider range of people with a variety of disabilities on our screens, and it …

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2 years, 9 months ago

HBO denies ‘Euphoria’ complaints made by unnamed background actors, crew

LA Times

With HBO’s “Euphoria” on tap for a third season, several unnamed sources — apparently from the background cast and the crew — have complained to the Daily Beast about what they say were poor working conditions on the set of the hit show. “Advocating for professional performer work categories like background actors and enforcing contractual provisions is one of SAG-AFTRA’s …

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2 years, 9 months ago

Stop desexualising disabled people like the Victoria’s Secret model with Down’s syndrome

The Independent

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3 years, 3 months ago

Sex Education gives disabled characters’ love lives the respect they deserve

The Independent

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3 years, 4 months ago

Disabled workers face ‘consistent difficulties’ in the UK TV industry, says new report

The Independent

For free real time breaking news alerts sent straight to your inbox sign up to our breaking news emails Sign up to our free breaking news emails Sign up to our free breaking news emails SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. Read our privacy policy A new study from Birmingham …

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3 years, 4 months ago

The Office producer Ash Atalla calls out Ricky Gervais’s disability jokes

The Independent

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3 years, 6 months ago

Disabled model told to ‘move on’ during London Fashion Week casting call, report says

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3 years, 6 months ago

Are theatres leaving disabled people behind as they reopen?

The Independent

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3 years, 6 months ago

Travel with a disability shouldn't be that hard, and there's billions on offer to businesses who prioritise accessibility

ABC

When Kerry Williams took a trip to Tasmania with her mother, she was shocked to find her mum couldn't easily access the shower. Key points: Travellers with a disability spend $3.2 billion annually in Australia But research shows many more would travel if it was more accessible Travellers say providers should give clear information about accessibility Her mother Barbie has …

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3 years, 8 months ago

With Crip Camp, Falling Through nominated, there's hope Oscars become more inclusive of differently-abled

Firstpost

Traditionally in Academy Award-nominated movies, disabled people appear only when an actor seeking an Oscar-worthy role plays one on screen. “I hope that it’s not just the flavour of the year, that it goes beyond, and that this is a trend that will continue.” Traditionally in Academy Award-nominated movies, disabled people appear only when an actor seeking an Oscar-worthy role …

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3 years, 8 months ago

Hollywood's Diversity Efforts Can't Ignore Disability, Advocates Say In Open Letter

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LOADING ERROR LOADING Over 80 members of the entertainment industry, including actors Amy Poehler, Naomie Harris, Heather Matarazzo and Janina Gavankar, are urging Hollywood studios and production companies to better prioritize disability in their diversity and inclusion efforts, in a new open letter. Cat-Wells noted that diversity is often thought of as giving more people “a seat at the table” …

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3 years, 10 months ago

NBCUniversal vows auditions for actors with disabilities

The Independent

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3 years, 11 months ago

Why it matters to cast autistic actors in autistic roles

ABC

If you ask Eliza Brearley why she loves performing, her face will open into a grin. "I love being different characters — not myself," the 24-year-old model and actor from NSW's Central Coast says. Eliza has struggled to find an agent in Australia, and says directors can be afraid to "give people a chance". "In a world where we're trying …

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3 years, 11 months ago

It Can be Done: A Book on Making the Legal Ecosystem More Accessible to the Disabled: Read Excerpts.

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"For many of us, what drew us to the law as our chosen career path was its ability to remedy injustice, to help make our society more equal. You will read blind senior advocate SK Rungta sharing the story of the judge who would repeatedly dismiss Mr. Rungta's cases without even so much as giving him a chance to utter …

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3 years, 11 months ago

On screen and on stage, disability continues to be depicted in outdated, cliched ways

Salon

The #MeToo and Black Lives Matter movements have forced Hollywood and other artists and filmmakers to rethink their subject matter and casting practices. "Disability drag" — casting able-bodied actors in the roles of characters with disabilities — has been hard to dislodge from its Oscar-worthy appeal. Breaking down the tropes Typically, the disabled characters are limited to four types: the …

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4 years, 1 month ago

Entertainers discuss disability representation in Hollywood

Associated Press

It’s an old cliche that if an actor wants to win an Oscar, he or she should consider playing a character with a disability. But only two of those actors actually had a disability — Marlee Matlin in “Children of a Lesser God” and Harold Russell in “The Best Years of Our Lives.” That’s just one of the things that …

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4 years, 4 months ago

How entertainment professionals with disabilities are fighting for inclusion

LA Times

RespectAbility summer lab participant, comedian and screenwriter Roque Renteria photographed with his dog at his Long Beach home on August 19, 2020. In its second year, RespectAbility’s Summer Lab for Entertainment Professionals With Disabilities connects people interested in — and with experience in — development, production and postproduction with leaders in the industry, and with one another. “There’s always the …

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