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Tag: disability on film and tv

Text reads 'Disability and charity - it's complicated.' The image is the mid-section of one of those old charity collection boxes - they were all over the UK in the 1980s but come from an earlier era. They're essentially statues of children, this one is a boy with an underarm crutch and a caliper, holding a box marked 'Action for the crippled child' - this is the box you'd put your money in.
November 21, 2022December 7, 2024 Lucy & James Catchpole

Disability does not equal charity

A photo by Richard Cave for the Oxford Mail of James playing amputee football - he's just kicked the ball directly at the camera and looks very intense. James is a one-legged white man, then in his 30s. He's using black crutches. Our text reads: '"What happened to you?" disability & sport' on a cream paper background. 
September 5, 2021September 14, 2024 Lucy & James Catchpole

Do Paralympics viewers have a right to know What Happened To Them?

On the Channel 4 Paralympics trailers, by Lucy Catchpole. Photo: Lucy - a white wheelchair user - holding a ball.
August 26, 2021December 7, 2024 Lucy & James Catchpole

On the Channel 4 Paralympics trailers – it’s complicated

a 2020 photo of me, a white 40ish mother with long brown hair, sitting in my wheelchair with my then 1yo daughter on my lap. We're wearing green linen. I'm looking off to the side and smiling. Text on a cream paper background reads: "The most damaging stereotype?
August 23, 2021February 10, 2025 Lucy & James Catchpole

Sickness and Lies? | The BBC and a very damaging stereotype

NO representation is better than bad representation - Lucy Catchpole. Photo: Lucy Catchpole, a mirror selfie. She's a white woman sitting in her wheelchair.
April 18, 2021September 20, 2024 Lucy & James Catchpole

No representation is better than bad representation | Lucy Catchpole on disability

February 17, 2020July 30, 2024 Lucy & James Catchpole

Isaac from Sex Education and the good old disabled baddie

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