Ted Talk about Disability Media Representations

http://www.ted.com/talks/maysoon_zayid_i_got_99_problems_palsy_is_just_one

I watched a Ted Talk recently by comedian Maysoon Zayid. I thought it tied in really well with our class discussions about how disability is a socially constructed concept. The majority of the talk is about how she is a representation of intersectionality she's muslim, pakistani, a woman, and she has cerebral palsy, but that of these different characteristics the least represented in the media is people with disabilities. I think a really good point that she brings up is that the largest minority in the world is people with disabilities, and that even despite this they are very few media representations of them. She also talks about how Hollywood casts abled bodied actors and actresses the majority of the time to represent those with disabilities. This seems completely ridiculous to me, because as she points out she herself was denied a role of a woman with cerebral palsy... which she has. I thought the video did a really good job of showing that how society reacts to and portrays disabilities needs to change.