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Tales From The Crip: This Is What Disability Looks Like

Social Commentary post by Caitlin Wood on October 2, 2012 - 9:56am; tagged Bethany Stevens, culture, disability, media, photography, queerness, representation, sex, Tales from the crip, This is what disability looks like.
badass lady wheelchair user and badass cane user

I have been told by some I am creating inspirational porn in a different form by showing images that are too queer, too sexuality provocative, and too fabulous—but I am sharing what people are sending me.

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Miss Representation is on TV Tonight!

TV post by Kelsey Wallace on October 20, 2011 - 12:24pm; tagged Miss Representation, OWN, representation, women in media.
Set those DVRs, because Miss Representation airs tonight on OWN at 9/8 central! The film, which explores the representations of women in the media and politics, is a must-watch for anyone who consumes media or cares about women (read: everyone). Check out the extended trailer for a sneak peek:

Miss Representation 8 min. Trailer 8/23/11 from Miss Representation on Vimeo.

Stay tuned to Bitch Radio too, because tomorrow's podcast will include our thoughts on the film!

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"Who gave you the right?": Indian sex workers talk back to filmmakers

Movies post by Kjerstin Johnson on October 8, 2010 - 11:27am; tagged representation, sex work, sex workers.
Not that I would expect post-modern, transnational feminist film work to come out of the slimy "it's not misogyny/racism, it's ironic!" Vice-magazine's video site, VBS.tv, but the thirty-minute documentary "Prostitutes of God," on devadasi sex workers in India, is dangerously western-centric, anti-sex work, and completely misrepresents the sex workers it focuses on.

Only there's a twist to this one-sided voyeurism--the film subjects are taking the filmmakers to task for misrepresenting their lives. Enraged about the compromised representation of their gods, their work, and their lives, the sex workers made a response video.
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On Staring: Talking about art, disability studies, and the way we look.

Audio post by Kjerstin Johnson on February 4, 2010 - 12:04pm; tagged art history, Davidson college, disability, disability studies, person with disabilities, re/formations, representation, Staring.
A painting of a woman's profile. She is facing left and wearing a green tank top. She has a red and gold beach towl wrapped around her head in a way that looks very majestic. She has down's syndrome and a small tattoo of the outline of a heart on her arm. This painting is described in the interview.
"Swim 2" from "16 Portraits" by Chris Rush
Professor Ann M. Fox and Jessica Cooley have now curated two art shows addressing disability. The first, Re/Formations featured five women artists exploring the intersections of female identity and disability through sculpture. More recently, they wrapped up STARING, which was based off of the book Staring: How We Look by Rosemarie Garland-Thomson, one of the leading scholars in disability studies. The works in STARING address issues of representation, visibility, and empowerment....not unlike feminism. It featured artwork from Doug Auld and Chris Rush, among others. Transcript available for download
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Out of the Bin: Asylum-seeking lesbians find expression through art

Art and Design post by Kjerstin Johnson on January 14, 2010 - 3:05pm; tagged art, ArtAngel, homophobia, immigration, lesbians, performance artists, representation.
The recent Uganda death penalty bill for homosexuality has raised awareness of the inhumane treatment of LGBT people globally. The repercussions of rape, jail, and murder for expressing your sexuality are horrendous, but they sometimes make it easy to cast a blind eye to the way so-called first-world countries continue to foster homophobia, transphobia, and sexism. Gay women seeking asylum in the UK know all too well that homophobia does not stop at the border.
The character Bin from the project Staying. She is photographed from the waist up. She is tilting her head, her left arm is raised over her head, her hand drapes over her face. On the right side is a page from a journal filled with writing. More writing is written over the original essay and a drawing of container with a person inside is drawn over the writing as well, creating a chaotic but poetic visual.

Through a new art project with Artangel, an organization that sponsors interactive art projects, some of these woman are able to express the dehumanizing and difficult process of gaining asylum.
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The Transcontinental Disability Choir: A Wizard Did It!

Social Commentary post by Anna_Palindrome on December 28, 2009 - 2:11pm; tagged disability, pop culture, representation, Star Trek, Transcontinental Disability Choir.
One of the things that drives me just a little bit up the wall about disability in pop culture is when creators want to have a disabled character, but don't want that character to have any of the actual consequences of being disabled. This plays out in one of two ways: Either the disability is just there, without any of the attending difficulties, or the disability has been turned into a Super Power. Sometimes, we get both.

I've never seen wheelchair-using Professor X have to actually deal with stairs. He uses his psychic powers to make his wheelchair float.

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