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Links from reading list. All disability related if you use your imagination a bit
A new BBC modern day Sherlock Holmes series written by Stephen Moffat. To be honest the trailer didn't grab me (though the concept does) but Watson seems unambiguously disabled (he uses a cane and seems to have PTSD) which is cool as long as they don't got to a hinky place with it.
RSA Animate - Smile or Die Barbara Ehrenreich on the perils of seeing positive thinking as directly correlated to life success. To a certain extent the animation acts as captions(*) but since I couldn't find an actual transcript here's an article where she says similar things.
What Good Writers Still Get Wrong about Blind People
I am not Your Plot Device about fictional depictions of Multiple Personality Disorder and Dissociative Identity Disorder.
(*)I tried watching it with the sound off and it was actually pretty cool :)
RSA Animate - Smile or Die Barbara Ehrenreich on the perils of seeing positive thinking as directly correlated to life success. To a certain extent the animation acts as captions(*) but since I couldn't find an actual transcript here's an article where she says similar things.
What Good Writers Still Get Wrong about Blind People
I am not Your Plot Device about fictional depictions of Multiple Personality Disorder and Dissociative Identity Disorder.
(*)I tried watching it with the sound off and it was actually pretty cool :)