People With Disabilities Say What They Want To See In Comics
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January 16, 2017People With Disabilities Say What They Want To See In Comics
https://www.buzzfeed.com/willvarner/disability-in-comics?utm_term=4ldqpia
“It’s possible to have a disabled character and not talk about their disability.”
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Day Al-Mohamed, author and disability advocate
“I would actually be happy to just see more people with disabilities represented in comics! We’re there. We’re in the real world. Have us be superheroes, super villains, I’d even love seeing us as little characters in the background.”
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Jillian Mercado, model and activist
“I want to see characters that are extremely BADASS.”
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