Why The Publishing Industry Can't Get Disability Right - The Establishment

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Why The Publishing Industry Can't Get Disability Right - The Establishment

In an industry mostly dominated by able people, disability is 'other.'

Since that day, I’ve come back to this question often: what is the reason that we don’t have more portrayals, intersectional and inclusive portrayals, of disability and disabled people? Why are so many stories about disabled people written by our friends, families, and caretakers instead of by us? So many stories about disability only offer pity and inspiration porn, disabled people hailed as “inspirational” solely on the basis of our being disabled. A huge part of that reason is that the people who make choices—about what’s being published, how it’s framed, and who gets to tell disability stories—are often not disabled themselves. To that effect, abled writers, editors, and publishers treat disability as an “outsider” story.

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Nov 20, 2016
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