I’ve haven’t seen “The Upside,” and I’m pretty sure I never will. The movie, which comes out Jan. 11, stars “Breaking Bad” actor Bryan Cranston as a quadriplegic billionaire named Phillip Lacasse who hires a former felon to be his caretaker.
The Angus Project, an upcoming ABC comedy pilot that drops in December, presents disability on screen in new ways.
Acclaimed British performance and installation artist Sue Austin is pushing the boundaries of what’s possible for those living with a disability.
Participation in cultural and community events can combat the adverse effects of discrimination and exclusion for Indigenous people with disability, a landmark report says.
Fashionista and social media identity Michelle Roger began her blog Up and Dressed as an incentive to get herself out of bed in the morning and ready for the day.
Findlay, a writer, spoken-word performer and “appearance activist”, has recently taken up the new post of inclusion coordinator for the Melbourne Fringe Festival.
Her goal for her three-year tenure as inclusion coordinator is to get the proportion of artists with disabilities at Melbourne Fringe to around 20 per cent, which would be similar to the proportion in the general community.
The American intellectual’s controversial account, The Handicapped – By One of Them, still resonates today. It also begs the question: what progress has been made since his death 100 years ago?
Disability simply isn’t represented in Australian media and advertising. Yet disabled people make up 20% of the Australian community.
A wheelchair using Indented Head man has launched a 15,000-signature strong petition demanding ticket agencies equal the playing field for disabled event-goers.
Getting a ticket for a preliminary final can be exhausting, especially when tickets to the public are exhausted. But spare a thought for footy fans like Sam Jackson, a Tigers supporter who competed for one of the coveted seats from an extremely uneven playing field.
When a degenerative disease robbed Holly Craig of her eyesight, she gave up on her dreams of a career on stage. Almost a decade later, Craig, now 27, is beginning to dream again, as she takes centre stage for a solo dance in a production at the Australian Theatre for Young People in Sydney.
A new comic series, called The Disabled Life, is using humour and sarcasm to chronicle what it’s like to live with a mobility-related disability. Created by Jessica and Lianna Oddi, who both use wheelchairs, the series documents what they call the “jerks and perks of living #TheDisabledLife.”
A formal complaint against the AFL will be lodged by representatives of the Deaf community to the Human Rights Commission today.
Disabled people deserve to know, from our school days, that we’re not just cases, diagnoses, or “not really disabled”; we’re part of a community with its own histories and triumphs. So to help you (and twelve-year-old me) gain a better understanding of disability than “just ignore it,” here are ten disabled women whose names you … Continued
GEELONG’S own Chris Van Ingen is set to star in the fourth and final episode of ABC’s hit new television series Barracuda. The television series, based on Christos Tsiolkas’s novel, is directed by Robert Connolly and focuses on the obsession that Australia has with sporting heroes, as well as class and culture clashes within the … Continued