Dwarfism Arts and Advocacy
eBook - ePub

Dwarfism Arts and Advocacy

Creating Our Own Positive Identity

  1. 248 pages
  2. English
  3. ePUB (mobile friendly)
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - ePub

Dwarfism Arts and Advocacy

Creating Our Own Positive Identity

About this book

When you think of a person with dwarfism, what image springs to mind? Now, hold onto that image and consider how you are expected to respond to it. Is your response laughter, amusement or maybe curiosity? Do you even see them as human, or just a novelty for the entertainment of others?

Rectifying the lack of representation of dwarfism in Disability arts, Dwarfism Arts and Advocacy brings together leading activists, both academics and arts practitioners with lived experience of dwarfism, to raise awareness within academia and society and challenge ableist representations of people with dwarfism. Raising a collective voice, authors offer their thoughts, experiences and, most importantly, recommendations for improving representations of dwarfism and counteracting ableist attitudes both in popular media and in everyday life.

Disputing derogatory representations of this condition, Dwarfism Arts and Advocacy opens up a new avenue for disability studies, encouraging advocacy and challenging able-bodied readers to re-examine their perceptions of this community.

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Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Title
  3. Copyright
  4. Contents
  5. About the Editor
  6. About the Contributors
  7. Acknowledgements
  8. Introduction
  9. Chapter 1 Curating New Perspectives: How My Dwarfism Led Me to Disability Art
  10. Chapter 2 Little Big Woman: Condescension – Sculpting the Oppositional Gaze
  11. Chapter 3 Where Are the Creative Opportunities for People With Dwarfism Lived Experience in Participatory Arts Funding?
  12. Chapter 4 It’s Behind You: How Equity and an Education Made Me More Than Just a Suit Filler
  13. Chapter 5 Midgitte Bardot: Using Drag Performance to Challenge People’s Perceptions and Attitudes of Dwarfism
  14. Chapter 6 The Path to Success Is Long and Winding: Challenging Stereotypes and Fighting for Disability Equality in the Entertainment Industry
  15. Chapter 7 Get the Balance Right: The Change in How People With Dwarfism Are Depicted From Limited, Damaging and Negative to Realistic, Creative and Positive
  16. Chapter 8 Creating Our Own Path: The Easterseals Disability Film Challenge
  17. Chapter 9 Dwarfism Advocacy: A Life Tenure
  18. Chapter 10 Exploring Dwarfism Representation in Social Media: Intentionality and Advocacy as a Digital Content Creator
  19. Chapter 11 Podcasts as a Platform for Advocacy
  20. Chapter 12 The Patchwork Representation We Too Often Miss
  21. Chapter 13 ‘Would You Befriend Me, Date Me, Hire Me if I Hadn’t Had My Bones Broken & Stretched to Look More Like Yours?’
  22. Epilogue
  23. Index