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  Queerness Meets Disability in Shortbus

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  Cynthia Barounis University of Illinois at Chicago

  February 02, 2011

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  repetition of Jamie’s catch phrase “I’m an albino!” feels more like comic relief than social commentary. ...
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  Just find a way around it

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  Laura Purcell Virginia Tech

  October 07, 2019

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  Tweet: ‘I’m sure Briony had a hand last week,’” said Great British Bake-Off semi-finalist Briony Williams ...
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  A Disabling Environment

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  Katie Ellis Murdoch University

  November 29, 2010

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  stuck in the rain and late for his job interview. When he finally arrives he can not possibly be ... on his part. Both Finklestein’s thought experiment and the Talk! films show that it is possible to ... new possibilities for media representation. ...
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  To Document or Intervene?

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  Ben Brucato Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute

  March 05, 2015

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  tips on how to use a cell phone to produce the best possible footage of an incident. With ... to prepare oneself to document—as clearly as possible—a police-civilian encounter, where does that ...
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  “Real” Men: Compulsory Able-Bodiedness & Heroic Injury

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  Marty Heath University of Illinois - Chicago

  September 09, 2022

  function, and yet, soon they are shown fighting valiantly alongside their comrades.  Their visible ...
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  Difference and Ability: Mental Health and the Superhero Genre

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  Julia Peres Guimaraes Northwestern University

  September 06, 2021

  identity and the possibility of a female Captain America (What if?) defy the very idea of the singularity ...
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  Disability and Disfigurement in Children's Media

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  J.Bennett Eastern Tennessee State University

  September 10, 2021

  https://www.cdc.gov/ncbddd/disabilityandhealth/infographic-disability-im.... Woodburn, D., & Kopic, K. (2016, July). THE RUDERMAN WHITE PAPER ON EMPLOYMENT OF ACTORS WITH ...
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  A Failure of Imagination: The role of disability in AVATAR

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  Jennifer Proctor University of Michigan-Dearborn

  August 10, 2010

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  A Failure of Imagination: The role of disability in AVATAR disability avatar ableism Curator's Note "When I was lying in the V.A. hospital with a big hole blown through the middle of my life, I started having these dreams of flying. I was free. ...