Ancestors

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Written by Kavana Ramaswamy on 2024-12-21 at 15:15

Unpopular opinion: the #wicked narrative is #ableist. It's supposedly trying to say "treating people who look different badly is wrong", but uses mythical green skin as the difference, while the only #disabled character is shown with tired tropes of tragedy, pity, unlovability, bitterness and desperation for cures. I dunno if movie will deviate from musicals in part 2.

Abstracting difference into fictional ideas while slotting real-life differences into exclusionary tropes is not inclusive.

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Descendants

Written by cyborgneticz on 2024-12-21 at 15:24

@kavana Thank you for making my 'eehhhh' feelings while reading it make sense

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Written by Kavana Ramaswamy on 2024-12-21 at 15:38

@Cyborgneticz

I haven't read the book. I've seen the musicals a few times, and just saw the movie. It seems to mostly follow the script, so I'm surprised that so many disabled people were praising it :/

But sad to know the book isn't much better 😔

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Written by cyborgneticz on 2024-12-22 at 00:11

@kavana It disappointed me because fantasy is such a perfect avenue to explore disability and it could have been good but no.

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