Zoe Cross “People with a disability should use a specialist dating site for the disabled. Achieving positive date matching outcomes for people with a visible disability can be challenging.” This essentially was the message a female would-be customer of a dating portal received recently. The woman involved is a BBC journalist and a wheelchair user
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Logan Zelenak is a face equality activist. Logan documents their personal thoughts and experiences around identity with facial difference, illness and plastic surgery, and making choices that feel empowering.
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We are an alliance of not-for-profits working to change that. We amplify the voices of individuals and organisations working with and for this community and we have just released our new position paper: Disfigurement and the UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities.
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Facial recognition technology works by mapping key points on a face and comparing them to a database of known faces. The accuracy of these systems heavily depends on the diversity and quality of the data used to train them.
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“I feel like this is just the beginning of representation in all of the media, and to showcase how beautiful differences really are.”
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“I feel like this is just the beginning of representation in all of the media, and to showcase how beautiful differences really are.”
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The Harmful Trope of Facial Differences in Film VillainsBy Tess Buckley “The constant portrayal of individuals with facial differences as villainous or frightening reinforces harmful stereotypes.“ “In the world of cinema, a familiar face often greets us when the villain is revealed – a face marked by scars, burns, or other visible differences. This long […]
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We deeply were saddened and frustrated this week to read a story in the news of a member of the facial difference community in Britain being asked to leave a London restaurant by staff who claimed that the customer’s appearance was upsetting other diners.
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“I have worked in facial difference research for almost five years now – something I never ever thought I would say.”
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“I was reminded that one person can make a difference. I was reminded that I was that person; that I made a difference. That the start of my advocacy work started with a spark of anger”.
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My name is Logan Zelenak and I was born with a fast flow vascular anomaly in my left mandible. When I was nine I acquired a long scar from surgery ranging from the top of my left ear to the bottom of my neck. I’ve come a long way with accepting my facial difference, but like anyone would, I’ve had my fair share of bumps along the way.
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