(Content Warning: Sexual Assault, Rape, Violence) The film “Luisa” is about 21-year-old Luisa, who lives in an institution for people with intellectual disabilities. She leaves her parents’ house behind in the hopes of gaining more independence and doing what she…
TGDN Network’s Reporter Rikki Poynter took part in this year’s Seattle Deaf Film Festival. In a series of videos and articles, she’ll review several films and recently, she shared what the three-day film festival was like. In this review, Rikki…
This collab story authored by Emma Purcell was first published by Crip Life. Audio Description Awareness Day, which takes place every year on 16th April, recognises, celebrates and advocates the importance of providing quality audio description (AD) across TV, film…
Anna Cofone is a British hairstylist well known for styling the likes of Dua Lipa and Lana Del Rey. In 2019, she launched the Hair & Care Project, which offers workshops to blind and low vision women and girls. Through…
This collab story authored by Chanika Svetvilas was first published in Wordgathering, Volume 19, Issue 2s (Spring 2026). What is Hospital Aesthetics? This concept, coined by author Amanda Cachia, is explored in her latest book, Hospital Aesthetics: Disability, Medicine, Activism….
“Maggie’s Big Break” follows 11-year-old Maggie Pearson, who wants to become an actor and has a stutter. When Maggie and her best friend Francesca are accepted into Danbury’s, a school for acting and the arts, Maggie must navigate friendship, her…
This collab story authored by Beatrice Leong was first published by FWD-Doc. Each year, FWD-Doc selects a delegate to attend the Berlinale/European Film Market (EFM)’s Toolbox Programme. Earlier this year, Beatrice Leong, a FWD-Doc member from Malaysia, was selected to…
TW: Violence and murder of disabled people. “Disposable Humanity” is a feature documentary by film director Cameron Mitchell tracing the history of “Aktion T4,” a Nazi program that murdered over 200,000 people between 1939 and 1945. Ableism Rooted in German…
Fashion is one of the most visual industries in the world, so where does that leave blind and low-vision people? In this episode, hosts Karina Sturm and Amy Zayed talk with Anna Cofone, founder of the Hair & Care Project,…
In the shades of the slopes of Mount Kilimanjaro, which dominates the sky, with its massive snow-capped dome rising out of the flat grassland of the Savannah, a little girl sat outside her family’s home, picking up a stick and…