Face Equality International
IFEW
Blog February 13, 2021
Dating with a difference and the role of dating platforms

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

Read More

Posts Tagged ‘film’

Carly Findlay at ‘Being Seen on Screen’

The way disabled people are shown on screen – often as the villain or having a tragic life –  shapes how people see us. I strongly believe this is why children have been scared of me. And so we need disabled people – not just on screen but in writers rooms, overseeing auditions, behind the camera and on awards panels.   

Read More

The Casting of Quasimodo: What Disney can learn from the trans community

There aren’t many humanizing stories about us, they need to get this one right.

Read More
×

Subscribe to the FEI newsletter

Please check the box below to continue *