Portraying a disability

  First, welcome to the Living With Disabilities Advocacy Website. It's run by none other than Katrina Smith, who's a person with a learning disability. Her mission behind Living With Disabilities is to bring awareness to all people with disabilities.

 Today Living With Disabilities wants to talk about abled bodies portraying a person with a disability. Especially, in Hollywood.
  Katrina feels very heated up on this topic and she wants to shine the light on a brighter perspective on Living in the disabled community.

 When it comes to the Hollywood industry. you have multiple actors playing different characters. But, there are some actors in the industry taking on characters with disabilities. And that's where people with disabilities begin to speak up.

Let's start with this one article from BBC News: "Kylie Jenner, from Keeping Up With The Kardashians, said, Wow, being in a wheelchair is so fun and fashionable". Back in 2015. 
  Living With Disabilities clearly feels heated when discussing this previous article, and that the spotlight must shine brightly on it. why say such a thing, and to be honest, what is it that is fun and fashionable about being in a wheelchair?  Some people with disabilities rely on their wheelchairs. It's not a fashion item. Like Donatella Versace's flashy golden jewelry, there is nothing to go "wow" about.
 Living With Disabilities is fuming over not only the statement, Kylie made. But, her posing in the wheelchair. 

  Now that we have gotten that out of the way, let's talk a little further about abled bodies portraying a person with a disability.

Hollywood is filled with Musicians, Actors, and Models. When it comes to finding people with disabilities to fulfill, characters and models, abled bodies are getting these spots. Wherefore, people with disabilities can take the role that is needed. as well as finding a model to model for clothes for people with disabilities. This is where Kylie Jenner comes back into the conversation, What was her reasoning in posing in a wheelchair, for whatever the reason may have been, a person with a disability could have modeled.

 The bottom line here: Leave roles for people with disabilities to people with disabilities. Abled- bodies have too much of the limelight and it is time to roll out the red carpet and start recognizing people with disabilities because there are a lot of celebrities who have different disabilities.

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