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Hi, I'm Marianne! Can you give me your thoughts on disability representation in media?
MarianneM
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Hello everyone!
I wanted to join this community to see if I could get people's opinions on something.
I was part-time disabled throughout my child-and-teen-hood and still face some minor mobility issues today. Disability issues are important to me, and I wanted to focus on this in the final year of my university degree. I was originally planning on creating a fantasy anthology of short stories written by disabled people, with disabled protagonists, though this unfortunately has fallen through.
Instead, I am writing a research essay about the effects of representation, specifically disability representation, for young people in literature. I would love to hear people's opinions on representation in modern media, and specifically in books and novels, if possible. Any comments are welcome!
Please be aware I may use your comments in my research essay though it will be anonymised and will only ever be shared with my university tutors. If you are unhappy with this, please let me know as you make your comment.
Thank you so much!
I wanted to join this community to see if I could get people's opinions on something.
I was part-time disabled throughout my child-and-teen-hood and still face some minor mobility issues today. Disability issues are important to me, and I wanted to focus on this in the final year of my university degree. I was originally planning on creating a fantasy anthology of short stories written by disabled people, with disabled protagonists, though this unfortunately has fallen through.
Instead, I am writing a research essay about the effects of representation, specifically disability representation, for young people in literature. I would love to hear people's opinions on representation in modern media, and specifically in books and novels, if possible. Any comments are welcome!
Please be aware I may use your comments in my research essay though it will be anonymised and will only ever be shared with my university tutors. If you are unhappy with this, please let me know as you make your comment.
Thank you so much!
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It's great that you thought of us when researching for your essay and I think our members will have lots of opinions on this. I'm not sure if you've heard of David Mitchell and Sharon Snyder before, but they are academics who specialise in Critical Disability Studies and their work covers the representation of disabled people in literature, so maybe give them a read. Also, we recently had a fab guest blog about representation of disability in Channel 4's It's a sin so do check that out.
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Thank you so much for your support! And for those recommendations too - I have no doubt they will be incredibly helpful and I'm excited to explore them further. And for moving my discussion post to where it can reach the most people. I'm eager to hear what people have to say!