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Handicap logo embedded in the center of a camera lense with blurry lights in the background.

Image used from "Lights! Camera! Access! 2.0" Ability Magazine.

Disability Media

Sunday, October 6, 2019 to Thursday, October 10, 2019
Theme week organized by
Lyndsey SheltonGeorgia State University
  • disability
  • mental health
  • advocacy
  • handicap
  • adversity
  • cognitive function
GBBO contestant Briony Williams with rolling pin

Just find a way around it

By Laura Purcell
Monday, October 7, 2019
2 comments
A fair skinned person in a white t-shirt stands within a jail cell with white painted bars. He drapes on wrist over the lock and grips a bar with his other hand.

TBI Awareness Memes: Hyper-individualism, overcoming adversity, and the neoliberal capitalist project

By Cheryl Green
Tuesday, October 8, 2019
2 comments
Royal family wearing charity sweatbands.

Just another celebrity confessional? famous faces, recognisable voices and mental health in the media

By Rebecca Feasey
Wednesday, October 9, 2019
1 comment
Game streamer Handi during a game streaming session

“I Do Things That People with Hands Can’t Even Do”: Streaming Disability and Video Games

Thursday, October 10, 2019
Atypical TV show poster with tagline "Normal is Overrated."

Fetishizing Cognitive Difference in The Big Bang Theory and Atypical

By Ted Gournelos
Friday, October 11, 2019
1 comment
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