Tag: representation
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Wendell & Wild: An Indictment of the School-to-Prison Pipeline with a Banging Black Punk Soundtrack
“Wendell & Wild” has a Black punk soundtrack, a Black girl protagonist with a transgender friend, a critique of the school-to-prison pipeline, and Key & Peele. The official playlist is full of Black and Queer Punk. It’s a banger. Spoiler Alert: The following pullquote is revealed later in the movie and is spoiler-ish. We make…
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What the Mods Mean for Disability Representation in Star Wars
This video essay from Questing Refuge on disability representation and radical visibility in Star Wars is excellent and appreciated. In this video, I hope to highlight why aesthetic choices like we see with The Mods can make a lot of sense by exploring groups in real life that choose to stand out. how The Mods…
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Politically and Culturally-engaged Collaborators, Not Just Users and Testers
Clinical, charitable, and institutional channels serve to weed out isolated, multiply marginalized, independent activists, scholars, and artists—those who may be suspicious of large-scale, centralized approaches to advocacy and the ways they tend to concentrate power. By relying primarily on charities as recruitment channels, Unilever effectively ensured that politically and culturally engaged disabled people were excluded…