I didn’t go to see Red Dragon because it was a thriller. I went because a friend told me an “interesting” disabled character was in it. Having studied how our culture teaches us to think about disability, I went not knowing what to expect. In films, our culture makes disabled people in its own image. […]
Joy Weeber
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“Piss On Pity.” So sang Johnny Creshendo, disabled English troubadour, in his 1992 American tour of the same name. He came to sing the disability community’s dreams of freedom and justice. But, alas, here we are, nine years later, once again subjected to the annual pity party, 36 years running, called the Jerry Lewis Muscular […]