Tag: The Varsity
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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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Wakanda Forever & Haiti
As you may have noticed, I tend to write solely about accessibility or disability issues. After all, being disabled is quite rooted in my personal experience, so it is hard to view a topic, without a certain disability perspective. However, writing about disability and accessibility requires constant clever analysis. One must adopt quite a victim”…
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Broken Record: A Disability Retrospective
“Brokeness” It was the theme that drove many of my creative works in the year 2020. Yet as the world broke apart at the seams, I was healing the cracks of my identity. “Broken Record” was the poem that explored my frustration as a person with a disability. How I viewed myself and how others…
Catherine CC Dumé 