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Ep 4: Disabled People in Media & Journalism

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This episode is on disabled people in media and representation. Alice talks with social justice journalist s.e. Smith and Vilissa Thompson, a disability rights consultant, writer, and advocate. There are many marginalized communities pushing for better representation in media, but what does that really mean? What does it look like? In this episode, they have a conversation on how editors and newsrooms can improve media coverage of disabled people and what they can do to increase newsroom disability diversity. 

Transcript

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Related Links

Ramp Your Voice!

Disabled Writers, a resource to help editors connect with disabled writers and journalists, and journalists connect with disabled sources.

s.e. smith’s website

About

Image description: A head and shoulders shot of s.e. smith, a white person with short brown hair and glasses, posing against the wall of a red building.
Image description: A head and shoulders shot of s.e. smith, a white person with short brown hair and glasses, posing against the wall of a red building.

s.e. smith is a Northern California-based social justice journalist with bylines in Rolling Stone, The Guardian, Bitch Magazine, Rewire, Vice, In These Times, and many other fine publications. Follow smith on Twitter @sesmith.

 

Image description: Photo of a young Black woman with her hair parted and hanging down straight. She is smiling and facing the camera sideways in her wheelchair. She is outside under the tree branches while wearing a white and black dress.
Image description: Photo of a young Black woman with her hair parted and hanging down straight. She is smiling and facing the camera sideways in her wheelchair. She is outside under the tree branches while wearing a white and black dress.

Vilissa Thompson: a macro-minded social worker from South Carolina. Ramp Your Voice! is her organization where she discusses the issues that matters to her as a Black disabled woman, including intersectionality, racism, politics, and why she unapologetically makes good trouble. Follow Vilissa on Twitter: @VilissaThompson.

 

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Credits

Cheryl Green, Audio Producer, Text Transcript

Alice Wong, Writer, Producer, Interviewer

Lateef McLeod, Introduction

Mike Mort, Artwork

Theme Music (used with permission of artist)

Song: “Hard Out Here for A Gimp”

Album: NO BIG DEAL

Artist: Wheelchair Sports Camp

Music

“Roll” by Evan Schaeffer (Source: freemusicarchive.org. Licensed under an Attribution 4 International License.)

“Bright Side” by Evan Schaeffer (Source: freemusicharchive.org. Licensed under an Attribution 4 International License.)
“Mantra” by Evan Schaeffer (Source: freemusicharchive.org. Licensed under an Attribution 4 International License.)

Sounds

“VOCODER countdown” by Jack_Master. This work is licensed under the Creative Commons 0 License.

“8 Bit Beeping Computer Sounds” by sheepfilms. This work is licensed under the Creative Commons 0 License.

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