Full Description
When you think of a person with dwarfism, what image springs to mind? Now, hold onto that image and consider how you are expected to respond to it. Is your response laughter, amusement or maybe curiosity? Do you even see them as human, or just a novelty for the entertainment of others?
Rectifying the lack of representation of dwarfism in Disability arts, Dwarfism Arts and Advocacy brings together leading activists, both academics and arts practitioners with lived experience of dwarfism, to raise awareness within academia and society and challenge ableist representations of people with dwarfism. Raising a collective voice, authors offer their thoughts, experiences and, most importantly, recommendations for improving representations of dwarfism and counteracting ableist attitudes both in popular media and in everyday life.
Disputing derogatory representations of this condition, Dwarfism Arts and Advocacy opens up a new avenue for disability studies, encouraging advocacy and challenging able-bodied readers to re-examine their perceptions of this community.
Contents
Introduction; Erin Pritchard
Chapter 1. Curating New Perspectives: How My Dwarfism Led Me to Disability Art; Amanda Cachia
Chapter 2. Little Big Women: Condescension - Sculpting the Oppositional Gaze; Debra Keenahan
Chapter 3. Where are the Creative Opportunities for People with Dwarfism Lived Experience in Participatory Arts Funding?; Steph Robson
Chapter 4. It's Behind You: How Equity and an Education Made Me More than Just a Suit Filler; Alice Lambert and Erin Pritchard
Chapter 5. Midgitte Bardot: Using drag performance to challenge people's perceptions and attitudes of dwarfism; Tam Reynolds and Erin Pritchard
Chapter 6. The Path to Success is Long and Winding: Challenging Stereotypes and Fighting for Disability Equality in the Entertainment Industry; Danny Woodburn and Erin Pritchard
Chapter 7. Get The Balance Right: The Change in How People with Dwarfism are Depicted from Limited, Damaging and Negative to Realistic, Creative and Positive; Simon Minty
Chapter 8. Creating Our Own Path: The Easterseals Disability Film Challenge; Nic Novicki and Erin Pritchard
Chapter 9. Dwarfism Advocacy: A Life Tenure; Angela Muir Van Etten
Chapter 10. Exploring Dwarfism Representation in Social Media: Intentionality and Advocacy as a Digital Content Creator; Kara B. Ayers
Chapter 11. Podcasts as a Platform for Advocacy; Jillian Curwin
Chapter 12. The Patchwork Representation We Too Often Miss; Sam Drummond
Chapter 13. "Would You Befriend Me, Date Me, Hire Me If I Hadn't Had My Bones Broken & Stretched to Look More Like Yours?"; Emily Sullivan Sanford
Epilogue; Erin Pritchard
