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17.43: Bodies. Why? (Depicting Disability)

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The Dangers of Disability in Star Wars Rogue One

"How are some ways that depicting disability can go horribly horribly wrong? Character is represented solely by their mobility device and no other way." "Will sacrificial characters. You know, sympathetically martyred for the journey of enabled body to protagonist"? "It happened like eight times in Star Wars Rogue One," he says. 'I've very much enjoyed it'

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