Dating with a Disability part 2 | The Essay that got me top Marks | Absence of Disabled Actresses

Seven months ago, I uploaded a video talking about the realities of dating with a disability. One of the key discussions was the absence of disabled characters in romantic positions. Today’s video is an essay on the absence of disabled female actresses in romantic leading roles.

Essay Starts at: 00:00:51:28
Essay Ends at: 14:30:00 (call to action)

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Links for further reading:
specified, A. n. 2023, Popcorn Disabilities: Fantastic Four and the Theory of Love is Blind. https://thefilmmaven.substack.com/p/p...

L., D. S. 2024, Entertainment industry contraction affects inclusion, USC Annenberg. https://annenberg.usc.edu/news/resear...

Initiative, A. I. 2020, Annenberg Inclusion Initiative releases study of representation in Netflix content. https://annenberg.usc.edu/news/resear...

Funk, A., & Ph.D., L. L. 2022, Representations of Disabled People and Intimacy in Film and Television. https://uh-ir.tdl.org/bitstreams/a38c...

Blake, M. 2024, I love rom-coms, but where's the female disabled lead?, The Week https://theweek.com/articles/894374/l...

reviewer, A. 2023, Abandoning Metaphors and Reclaiming Impairment https://equality.jotwell.com/abandoni...

Disability Studies Quarterly, 2021, Pedagogies of lived experience: The perspectives of people with disabilities
https://dsq-sds.org/article/id/702/

Davidson, S., 2023. The Intersection of Disability and Romance in Nineteenth-Century Literature (Doctoral dissertation, Boston College, College of Arts and Sciences).
https://ur.bc.edu/system/files/2025-0...

DECANDIA, A., Physical Disability in Literature: Osteogenesis Imperfecta Representations in Young Adult Romance Novels.
https://thesis.unipd.it/retrieve/d336...

Joshua, E., 2020, Physical disability in British romantic literature (Vol. 130). Cambridge University Press.
https://books.google.com.au/books?hl=...

Analysis of ‘Physical disability in British romantic literature (Vol. 130).’ - ChatGPT
https://chatgpt.com/share/e/68f81b28-...

Press, A.B.R., 2024. Laurie Hilburn PB-694-02 6 January 2024 Able Bodies Romance Press.
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