DIS AND THAT
Rewarding the Flex: What Awards Culture Gets Wrong about Disability, Effort, and Authenticity
Originally published in Able News. Friends and colleagues were recently quoted in Patrick Hosken’s March 11 CITY Magazine article, “The Oscars love disability stories, but it&...
Lone Wolves: Hollywood, Take Notes About How to Make Autism Movies
If there’s one thing I’ve been wanting, it’s good autistic representation in a film. In the past few years, autistic representation in film has been pretty awful, with the co...
Op-Ed: Sundance Continues to Break Ground with Take Me Home
Despite its growing mainstream popularity, the Sundance Film Festival has always remained a space for groundbreaking work that helps shape the future of cinema and fosters fresh perspecti...
Guest Blog: Mayer Waxman on Jewish Disability Awareness, Acceptance, and Inclusion Month
ReelAbilities advisory board member Mayer Waxman writes about Jewish Disability Awareness, Acceptance, and Inclusion Month (JDAIM)
Why Are We Still Talking About The Best Years of Our Lives Seventy Nine Years Later?
On the anniversary of its 1946 release, ReelAbilities’ Lawrence Carter-Long revisits the landmark film and what it continues to teach audiences about disability, adaptation, and acceptance.
10 Films That Do Disability Humor Right (And a Lesson We Can Learn from Each of Them)
Guest blog from Steven Verdile of The Squeaky Wheel
Q&A with Melanie Waldman
As part of our celebration of National Disability Employment Awareness Month (NDEAM) this October, ReelAbilities is spotlighting voices from our community who are reshaping what inclusion at work l...
Some Words We Say. Some We Don’t. Here’s Why.
Nearly 10 years after DISABLED. #SayTheWord went viral, we revisit the hashtag and the reasons for it.
What We Owe to Each Other: On Friendship, Filming, and Telling the Hard Stories
Guest blog by Margaret Byrne, director of Any Given Day, remembering Angela Roaché-Peña.
Why the “Disability in Film” Showcase on Turner Classic Movies Matters
ReelAbilities on TCM
Disability and Not Looking Away on World Environmental Day
On world environment day, ReelAbilities' Lawrence Carter-Long makes a powerful case on how climate disasters expose systemic failures for disabled people—and why disability inclusion must be centra...
How “Wicked” Reimagines Disability Representation in Hollywood
The blockbuster film adaptation of “Wicked” does more than dazzle with its emerald hues and soaring musical numbers – it holds up a funhouse mirror to society that reflects back our discomfort with...
ReelAbilities Film Festival to launch a new streaming service
ReelAbilities Film Festival to launch a new streaming service on July 11, showcasing films by and about people with disabilities.