Heck, this piece of writing is as much a delving of that so very personal trauma, as well as our community's pain & betrayal, as it is a film review.

This incredible #DisabilityRepresentation movie was agony for me to watch - yet everyone abled, especially, *should*! This film is IMPORTANT and carries vital perspective!

I hope I've done this harrowing movie justice in my review (linked in post above)! 🧡

#FilmMastodon #Film #KwDisRep #Movie #NEISvoid

#KittenWatches Margarita With a Straw

TLDR?
God, there's so many beautiful, empowering layers of rep in Margarita: Disability, Indian culture, queerness, sexuality! It puts Hollywood wholly to SHAME! The disabled joy alone is worth watching for! This is the bar for Hollywood & co to rise to!

Link goes to my full ★★★★½ #MovieReview on Letterboxd
https://boxd.it/41pjhh

#DisabilityRepresentation #Disability #Movie #Movies #RepresentationMatters
#KwQueerRep #KwDisRep #Film #LGBT

#KittenWatches True Spirit (2023)

Was I the only one praying to Pink during that last storm?! 🥺

TLDR?

This movie snuck under my skin! It was written & acted beautifully, with such raw emotion! That this story is based on something that really happened, was the icing on the emotional cake!

Link - My full ★★★★½ review of #TrueSpirit on Letterboxd, inc discussion of the #dyslexia rep:

https://boxd.it/3P3Q5V

#Movie #Movies #MovieReview #Film #KwDisRep #KwSurvival #DisabilityRepresentation

#KittenWatches Special (2019)

It was so genuinely delightful to come across this disabled, queer rep - by us AND about us! So much of this was so very relatable for me!

And ohhhh, it's the kind of authentic, powerful show we need!! Shows about disabled ppl just living & loving in this #ableist world! It's the kind of show I'm desperate for!

I am so happy I found it, albeit late to the game!

Full #TV Review with content warnings threaded! 👇

#LGBT #Disability #NEISvoid #KwQueerRep #KwDisRep

#KittenWatches Mercury Rising

TLDR?
This movie is bland, clichéd & very offensive in it's #disability #representation. It's about an autistic child & the rep is as robotic & stereotypical as I've seen, the language distressingly ableist!

You could write an essay on the harm it's done to ppl's perception of autism & to #ActuallyAutistic ppl ourselves - & I sorta did!

CW for #movie threaded.

My very indepth ½★ review on Letterboxd:
https://boxd.it/3IRSi5

#Film #Thriller #KwSurvival #KwDisRep