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We are Not Disabled, We Are Human
A Silent City Blog One morning, I was scrolling through TikTok, as one does. Between the funny skits of Frozen Texas and Wanda Vision spoilers, I came across a devastatingvideo of a young man who was crying. He showed the audience his hearing aids, before stating that someone said to him that he would never…
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Netflix’s Raising Dion: To be Fixed vs to be Accepted
A Silent City Blog When the Quarantine began, all I could think of was having a movie marathon. I would watch a film every day, sometimes two in a night. Since school was over for me, I didn’t really have much else to do. The first movies I watched were the X-Men films, the Ocean Heist…
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The Death of the Author
Catherine Dumé | Accessibility Insider – 2023- 24 Dear Amelia Arrows, I created you – I birthed you out of weakness, out of insecurity. For you were made beautiful, out of my ugliness. Your white skin for my blackness. Your manageable curls for my knotted plaits. Your vision for my blindness. Your hearing for my…
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The Case for Movie Captions in Theatres
As the Toronto Film Festival begins, let’s return to the good old debate about captions in theatres. The last time I talked about the caption debate, a lot of international filmgoers were a bit confused. After all, having captions in non-English-speaking countries is the norm. Not so in Canada. The idea of having words on…
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