I’m not sure what the main reason would be why the media wouldn’t use a person of colour with a disability to play a disabled role. I don’t think that there is a lack of them. There must be some type of barrier or miscommunication of why the original person or thing is being portrayed. Why isn’t it authentic or real. If there hasn’t ever been a movement or campaign about it I guess the time is now.

I guess this #DisabilityTooWhite hashtag was a great way to get the movement active, I guess it has to start somewhere and the fact that it started organically and people paid attention to is, it’s a starting point for voices to be heard for development and change.  Now from this hashtag people have been able to connect with others and build a powerful support group.

This type of thing reminds me of when I went to watch the Bob Marley musical in the theatre ‘getupstandup’ in the west end a few months ago. The main actor who played Bob and 98% of all the actors in the musical were not Jamaican, but from other Caribbean island. That to me wasn’t a true representation. I heard what I would call the fake Jamaican accent.

Get Up Stand Up. (n.d.). Get Up Stand Up! The Bob Marley Musical. [online] Available at: https://getupstandupthemusical.com. priority_high Webpage author priority_high Date published (Accessed 3 June. 2023)

Shades of Noir “Disabled People: The Voice of the Many.”,
https://shadesofnoir.org.uk/journals/disabled-people-the-voice-of-the-many/ (Accessed 7 June 2023).

Connor, David J. (2008) “Disability Studies and Inclusive Education — Implications for Theory, Research, and Practice.” International Journal of Inclusive Education, vol. 12, no. 5-6, Sept. 2008, pp. 441–457, https://doi.org/10.1080/13603110802377482. Accessed 7 June 2023.