Disabled people create and consume media. This section provides access to disability-centered media, celebrates disabled creators, critiques harmful representation, and documents disability culture through arts and creative expression.
Media shapes how disabled people see themselves and how society sees us. When media presents disabled people as tragic, inspiration, or invisible, it affects our self-image and opportunities. This section highlights media by disabled creators, critiques problematic representation, and celebrates disability arts and culture.
Disability in literature. Covers books by disabled authors, books about disability, memoirs, fiction, poetry, and where to find them. Includes both mainstream and disability-centered publishing.
Disability writing online. Covers disability bloggers, disability justice websites, peer support blogs, and disability news sources.
Disability in audio. Covers disability podcasts, disability stories, interviews with disabled people, and where to find them.
Disability creators on YouTube. Covers disabled creators making content, vlogs, educational disability content, and disability culture documented.
Disability on TikTok. Covers disabled TikTokers, short-form disability content, community on TikTok, and trends in disability TikTok.
Films about or by disabled people. Covers documentaries, narrative films, disabled directors, and critical analysis of disability representation.
Disability on television. Covers TV shows featuring disabled characters, disabled writers/producers, and analysis of representation.
Disability art and performing arts. Covers disability artists, disability theater, performance art, visual art, music, and dance.
How disability is portrayed in media. Covers inspiration porn, tragic disability, savior narratives, and what better representation looks like.
Index of disabled creators across media platforms and disciplines.
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Disability Arts & Performance →
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Why disability media is important:
Disability memoirs:
Disability fiction:
Disability theory and justice:
Comics and graphic novels:
Children's books:
Disability blogging is a rich tradition:
Long-form essays on personal experience, analysis, culture
Chronic illness blogs documenting daily life
Disability justice writing on politics and movement
Academic disability studies made accessible
Funny, irreverent disability commentary on ableism
Community organizing blogs about disability activism
Online disability writing is often more honest and current than traditional publishing.
Disability podcasts cover everything:
Personal narratives: Disabled people telling their stories
Disability justice analysis: Politics and theory
News and updates: Disability rights and policy
Comedy: Disability humor
Interviews: With disabled activists, creators, thinkers
Educational: Learning about specific disabilities
Support and peer: Peer connection and support
Short and long-form video from disabled creators:
Disability education: Learning about disabilities you don't have
Personal vlogs: What daily life looks like
Disability culture: Community norms and traditions
Comedy: Disability humor
Activism: Disability rights advocacy
Art and creativity: Disabled artists creating
Entertainment: Just fun disability content
Documentaries:
Narrative films:
Television:
Disabled artists create across all mediums:
Visual arts: Painting, sculpture, photography, installation
Performance: Dance, theater, music, spoken word
Writing: Poetry, prose, scripts
Multi-media: Combining multiple forms
Community art: Art for and by communities
Activist art: Art that advocates and educates
Disability art is vibrant, diverse, and powerful. It tells stories mainstream art doesn't, from perspectives often excluded.
Inspiration porn: Using disabled people's accomplishments as motivation for non-disabled people ("if they can do it despite disability, you can do anything")
Tragedy narratives: "Poor disabled person suffered and overcame"
Savior narratives: Non-disabled person rescues disabled person
Invisible/absent: Disabled people not shown at all
Good representation:
Disabled people create across all mediums and genres. Some well-known disabled creators include:
Authors (all disabilities and genres)
Filmmakers and directors
Musicians and artists
Comedians and performers
Activists and writers
Visual artists
Support disabled creators: watch their content, buy their work, recommend them, credit them, compensate them.
Disability has culture:
Humor: Disability jokes, often dark and honest
Communication: In-group references, language, norms
Values: Disability justice, community care, accessibility
History: Movement history, activism
Traditions: Disability culture events, conferences, online spaces
Pride: Disability pride, celebration of disability identity
Disability culture is real and vibrant. It's different from mainstream culture in ways that matter.
Are you a disabled creator? Know about disability media that should be highlighted? Have recommendations for good representation?
We welcome contributions from disabled creators, media critics, artists, and media consumers.
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