By Nicola BryanActors with disabilities are too often cast in roles to make non-disabled people who control the creative industries look good, an artist says.She said those with hidden disabilities were being excluded in favour of those with a more obvious disability."Other people have said 'we want someone with learning difficulties but we want them to have Down's because that's more obvious'.
"Often our presence is to make non-disabled people look better because they're helping us - it sounds lovely but it's a patronisation," said Ruth, who was born in Liverpool and lives in Dolgarrog, Conwy."We should have disabled Romeos - it is about making being disabled ordinary.
"There's a certain sort of disabled person who makes us all go 'ooh, look at them, they're being really inclusive and right on because they've got a wheelchair user, or an amputee or somebody using a blade'," he said.
there are two sides good and bad! it is well overdue but the enforcement of it is so wrong! Then you add AI and a large mix of the population is cut from the work force! White, heterosexual, identifying with the sex you were born with, beliefs, politics, AGE and BAD grammar!
Give me strength....
Bless......next.
Recommend a brilliant, Chilean Netflix series, Chromosome 21, which stars an actor with Down's Syndrome found at a murder scene.. - Disabled actors patronised by TV industry, says artist
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