Developing formats around the topic of disability is often double-edged. While we need these formats to inform the viewers and to touch upon social injustices, aren’t we at the same time marginalizing them by building ‘special’ programming for and/or with them? Is this a session that actually should not exist in the first place? Avoiding inclusion of programs for the especially needy may lead to apathy. Inclusion in the form of special programming may lead just to sympathy. In this session we show two programs with totally different approaches and examine how successfully they manage to be inclusive. What are the recipes for success? And where do programs risk being patronizing and actually marginalizing rather than including their disabled protagonists? Inclusion is no longer necessary when nobody feels left out. How should a public broadcaster include the communities that have to put up a fight for their right to normality?
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From UPF
This show – a spinoff from ‘Barrierfree Variety Show’ - is a form of barrier-free entertainment in which 100 people with disabilities engage in honest,… -
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‘Why does the opposite sex reject me? Am I an odd creature? A weirdo? No, I’m Jesús, someone who wants to give love.’ People with different…