The disability community has long been excluded from Hollywood and the Academy’s president, Cheryl Boone Isaacs, reinforced that when she mentioned every marginalized community in the Academy’s diversity efforts… but the disability community.
For many of us privilege and oppression are not mutually exclusive. I face multiple intersections of oppression personally. I am oppressed for being disabled both with physical and invisible disabilities. I am oppressed for being transgender. I face discrimination for being a quip (a queer crip). I grew up in…
