The fixation on personal stories happens at the expense of real conversations about policy and culture.
Do we really need to personalise everything?
Category: media
It’s all about ethics in citation practices
What are you saying when you cite a person or organisation? Are you endorsing poor practices by lending your weight to bad entities?
We need more diverse disability stock photography
Sometimes a big shift in representation can happen with a relatively small project, like increasing diversity in stock photography.
What has journalism done for you? A lot, actually
Voicing loathing for the media has become a popular collective activity, but it ignores the tremendous work journalists do for you every day, often where you can’t even see it.
Stop indulging the myth of journalistic impartiality
Journalistic impartiality is a myth and we all know it — so stop acting surprised when the bubble gets popped.
Where are the media opportunities for underrepresented people?
People demanding to know where the underrepresented people in media are should get familiar with the labyrinthine process of hiring and promotions in the world of media.
Try writing more than transition stories
So you’ve discovered that trans people exist! Congratulations, you. Did you know that we’re about so much more than our transition narratives?
Sorry, but good media doesn’t come cheap
Not all that long ago, if you wanted to read a magazine or a newspaper, you had to subscribe to it or pay a one-time fee for an issue — the New York Times looks particularly interesting so you grab a copy, you enjoy reading The New Yorker, so you get a subscription. Or you hit up the library, […]
How to cover gender responsibly, an incomplete guide
Trans visibility is on the rise, which means that, hooray, there’s more media coverage of gender, including discussions that really take gender beyond binaristic views, that explore different gender identities and the spectrum of gender expression, and more. This is all very exciting, but it comes with a really important pitfall: The more stories produced, […]
Stop erasing disabled dancers and athletes
Someone asked me the other day about my least favourite disability trope, and honestly, it’s really hard to just pick one. There are so many, and I hate them all for so many reasons, but there’s one in particular that’s really been irking me lately: The erasure of disabled dancers (as well as disabled athletes […]