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New Research Investigates Tokenism in the Hiring of Deaf Disabled People in UK Media.

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A new research that centres the experiences of Deaf film and TV professionals in the UK has found that deaf film and TV professionals are sometimes hired to simply tick the box on diversity quotas in organisations. This tokenism has led many deaf professionals to consider changing professions and exploring other sectors where their skills […]

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Disabilities in Media and GADIM’s Toolkit on the Go!

Disabilities in Media and the Global Alliance for Disability in Media and Entertainment (GADIM) have now further expanded on the toolkit for representing disabilities in films and television. This handy toolkit illustrates what disabled people and disability advocates want the representation of disabilities to be in films and, more broadly, in television. It is prepared