Q:
What do you get when you put
blackface,
sizeism,
old racist jokes,
glorification of war
and outright ableism together?
A: Tropic Thunder
Tropic Thunder is a big-budget film to be released next week. The synopsis on the promotional website describes the film as
“an action comedy about a group of self-absorbed actors who set out to make the most expensive war film. After [...]
Recently, a young boy by the name of Alex Barton participated in an experiment on democracy.
Sounds harmless, right?
Way off. Wendy Portillo, Alex’s teacher, allowed his classmates to go around and tell him all the things they did not like about him. After the class told him he was “disgusting” and “annoying”, the teacher allowed them [...]
I feel hopeless when I’m supposed to be speaking on sexual consciousness but am feeling disconnected from my own body because I don’t look white, skinny, or able-bodied like the masses of queer people there
I feel like I’m misleading people and betraying my own when I talk about disability in a cross-disability intersectional framework and [...]
mia mingus accepting the creating change award:
“i want to honor those of us who know we can not separate heterosexism* from ableism* and allow disability issues to be seen as secondary issues; those of us push disability into the conversation even when it’s hard and unpopular, again and again; those of [...]
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