Selama berabad-abad, disabilitas digunakan sebagai metafora yang menakutkan dalam genre horor. Namun, gelombang baru pembuat film kini menantang cara pandang problematis tersebut.
- Professor in Internet Studies, Curtin University
For decades, various kinds of disability have been used as ‘scary’ metaphors in horror. But a new wave of filmmakers is challenging this problematic framing.
The film’s focus on Furiosa’s amputation exploits disability, and closes down the related commentary and critique previously expanded in each progressive Mad Max film.
After nearly 30 years of advocacy, audio description services have finally arrived on the ABC and SBS.
One year after the first video on demand service launched in Australia, why do most companies not offer basic accessibility features for disabled audiences?
The history of disability toys – that is, both toys designed for use by disabled children, and toys that depict disability – reflects the changing treatment of the disabled.
Feminism activist group Destroy the Joint has come under fire for excluding women with disabilities. What is intersectionality and why is it so important to feminism?
Tim McCallum’s performance on The Voice wowed viewers, and offers an opportunity advance social understandings of disability.
Makies, the #toyslikeme campaign and the broader focus on disability in digital spaces show we are in the midst of a significant shift towards an inclusive world view of disability.
TEDx Sydney launched a campaign to initiate conversations around disability in the name of the late campaigner Stella Young. The project was ill-conceived but it points to the need for listening closely to people with disabilities.
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