Gypsy Rose Blanchard was met with online support after being released from prison for the murder of her abusive mother. While her crime can be absolved, can Gen Z's "unseriousness?"
Tod Browning's 1932 "Freaks" was blacklisted in its time. Today, it is held up as one of the only films in the country where the majority of the cast are individuals with disabilities. Thursday, the Coolidge Corner Theater hosted an event about the film and disability representation with speaker IndieWire TV Editor Kristen Lopez.
Members of Green Line Transformation shared details of the station’s design at a virtual community meeting Wednesday, as the Symphony Station Accessibility Improvements project enters its final design phase.
In movies with characters who have a disability, the role should always be first considered for people who have the same disability, have lived these experiences and are able to accurately portray them. We need to approach this situation with solutions, so people no longer have to suffer misrepresentation or lack of representation when watching a character they wanted to relate to.
