March 14, 2023 - 16:02
→ Field Trips! What was amazing and surprising about visiting CCW?
→ Whats to come?
→ Final Project
→ descriptive story of the art show at the end of the semester
→ How to make it accessible
Question: How long do you have to be free??
→ 1:30 to go there for about an hour
Field Trip to Haverford: tour guides
Responses! Keep them up!--> Posting continues throughout the week
→ Kristen will send responses via email over time
Rewriting the old disability script
→ Portrayal of disability: In grotesque scary ways, as something to be afraid of
→ horror movies, Halloween, GooseBumps
Task: Come up with fictional characters, List
→ Mysterious Benedicts Society
→ Brave New World
→ Game of Thorns
→ Lord of the Rings
→ CODA
→ Greys Anatomy
Who is considered disabled and not disabled?
BAD example?
Mad Eye Moody from Harry potter
Passed with Flying colors??
→ The Sound of Metal
→ Glee, nuance
→ Sesame street
→ how to train your dragon
→ X-man
Questions??
Who is involved with the production and writing?
How is disability and the disabled character portrayed? In a negative or positive light?
What defines a cure and what defines a cure mentality?
Other Examples
Alone in the Mainstream, by deaf author
Role of non-disabled actors winning awards on being disabled characters
How to portray diverse array of disability with such narrow spectrum that is being shown.
→ How to talk about pain, loneliness without adding to assumptions that people already make about disability
What do stories look like?
→ Disabled character in My little pony
Another example is Modeling industry / Fashion role
→ Who is and the intent of this?
→ realm of PR and using disabled people to look good
→ Using models of different sizes and experiences
Want characters of bad and good characters? Want full range of disability
→ Need multiple axesses of difference
Good Kings, Bad Kings
→ Love Yessenia
→ Author based on experiences and spending time together
→ Linking incarceration with nursing home
→ Michelle with providing another perspective
How does different perspectives fit together? How do voices fit together?
→ Characters meeting one another
→ talking through all perspectives, enjoy all of the aspects of them
Setting→ makes it easier to include multiple disabled characters
→ How setting changes voices
→ Makes sense of change in character
When Reading
→ thematic goals
→ characters use