#cripface

[saturdaynightlivedork]

Don’t play me. Pay me.

[comptonaskew]

#love you #CripFace get home so we can do ratchet things with ratchet friend #FreeCLow https://www.instagram.com/p/B2qini3gbrS/?igshid=1napiic6dm5a6

[comptonaskew]

#Happy #Cday #CripFace ... love fool 💯 @jaxxofalltrades cuzz tell my nigga happy c day on 1 of cuh pic ... https://www.instagram.com/p/Bv7uj9pA_Oa/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=nqcpyj1zg4mn

[amaditalks]

While the disability-rights community and disability-access community have been assailing Netflix for the lack of visual descriptions available for blind/low vision users, and have centered that activism around Daredevil, due to its blind main character, has anyone at all been talking about this how being another instance of crip drag/cripface, with a sighted actor playing blind? Or is that okay suddenly? It seemed to be quite the big deal about the Augie character on Covert Affairs but Matt Murdock is different, I guess.

[gwsoc200-blog]

Able-bodied actors portraying disabled characters is sometimes referred to as "cripface." This relates to our discussion of disability this week, which we'll continue in Week 10.

[emmahalesmith-blog]

Breaking Bad bucks Hollywood's cripface trend

A 2011 study found that less than one percent of regular characters on scripted shows were disabled, and that number was falling. That's pretty remarkable&

And while we're on the subject of cripface.

[emmahalesmith-blog]

Whoopi Goldberg in cripface. Always ambivalent about these things. It's a very moving and funny performance, and I don't know of any disabled actors who could get the same kind of audience. But that's kind of the point: Lots of disabled characters on TV, but very few disabled actors. And I have to wonder about the actual effect of Whoopi Goldberg's performance. Does it humanize disabled people? If so, at what cost? Is it possible for a disabled actor to humanize disabled people? Does the performance make people cry and then creepily smile and next time they see someone who is disabled, but change nothing when it comes time to making places more accessible, insisting on universal design, voting for universal healthcare, removing politicians who cut Social Security or disability?  Maybe for some people it does have a more tangible effect. Maybe it does make them say something the next time they're in a store with a curb at the entrance and narrow aisles (I'm looking at you, almost every store in Northampton). Maybe it does make them vote differently. Again, at what cost? It's why I say I'm ambivalent. I don't think I can write it off as something negative, but I'm not sure it's as positive as I might have once thought.