Disabled allies, please help

fuckyesdeadpool:

The term “invisible disability” was coined in the early 1900s to describe a person with a disability you cannot immediately recognize on-site; it refers to people who have autism, cancer, etc.

The IDA (Invisible Disabilities Association) is an advocacy group that was formed in 1996 and despite their well-intentioned formation they’ve recently trademarked the term invisible disability.

This means the legally own the identity and have already taken steps to shut down invisible disability support groups and bloggers. This would be like if GLAAD trademarked the word gay and then sued you for simply talking about how you are gay, shutting down gay support groups, and also restricting anyone from publishing anything about being gay unless they were given the profits.

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“I feel really strong and really grateful that I’m not limping into the home stretch,” she tells Backstage. “I feel like we’re at the last stage of a marathon and I have a runner’s high right now.”

Goldsberry is also thankful that in her two years of originating the role of Alexander Hamilton’s sister-in-law, she’s maintained vocal health. “Sleep is the apple a day, really, for singers,” she says. As a mother of two young children, Goldsberry has learned to survive eight draining shows a week by resting whenever she can. “I have to be able to take a nap. That’s a lifesaver for me. As long as it’s early enough in the day that I can wake my voice up, sleep is divine.

“And you just have to know your body,” she advises. “I learned if I eat pizza too late at night, I might have a problem with my throat! Know what you can do—it might not be the same thing someone else can get away with.”

That philosophy certainly helped Goldsberry book “Hamilton” in the first place. Although the initial casting breakdown for Angelica—“Nicki Minaj meets Desiree Armfeldt from ‘A Little Night Music’ ”—gave her pause (“I’m a huge fan of hers, but she has a very specific bravado that was different than what I was going to walk in the room with,” she laughs), hearing the character’s showstopping number made everything clear; Goldsberry knew how to deliver “Satisfied” in the audition room.

“Any kind of reservations or questions didn’t really matter, just having heard that music,” she remembers. “I didn’t go in because I thought I was going to get the job as much as I just wanted to meet those guys.” Only an hour after performing “Satisfied” for creator Lin-Manuel Miranda, director Thomas Kail, and the rest of the team—“a really welcoming, awesome group of geniuses”—Goldsberry was invited to do the workshop.

“That number in particular, even outside of the show, will be studied,” she says of “Satisfied.” “It’s such a perfect construction for musical theater in terms of storytelling, in terms of identifying and defining a character so succinctly and so beautifully.” The ballad, which stops and rewinds the story to reveal the inner workings of Angelica choosing her sister’s happiness over her own, boasts some of the quickest rap verses in the musical. How does an actor prepare for that?

“I’ve written a couple raps in my day, in my own music career that people don’t know a lot about,” Goldsberry says with a smile. But the real preparation came from her foundation of classical training. “One hundred percent, all your Shakespeare training serves you in the work in musical theater today,” she says. “Specifically in modern musical theater, our soliloquies, and now what we call rap. It’s the reason it’s so easy to learn, because it’s verse, it’s rhyme! It just sticks in the soul very easily.”

In fact, she adds, “Satisfied” is a Shakespearean soliloquy, a direct address in which Angelica takes off her mask for the audience. “It is stream of consciousness, but the consciousness of a brilliant woman who can make a million decisions in an instant. So time really has to stop for the audience, for anybody, to show you how fast this woman thinks.”

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Renée Elise Goldsberry on How to Audition for ‘Hamilton’ (Backstage.com)

& what she thinks about what comes next…

(via thefederalistfreestyle)

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bolkonsky: They say Angelica and Eliza were both at his side...

bolkonsky:

They say Angelica and Eliza were both at his side when he died.

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marauders4evr: marauders4evr: I keep getting hate from abled people who wanted to watch Me Before...

marauders4evr:

marauders4evr:

I keep getting hate from abled people who wanted to watch Me Before You and didn’t like the fact that I spoiled the ending in my posts where I talk about how disgusting it is to have the main character kill himself because he doesn’t think that his life is worth living now that he’s disabled. So, in an effort to stop the hate, I will minimize the amount of time that I talk about the ending wherein the main character kills himself because he doesn’t think that his life is worth living now that he’s disabled. It’s not fair for all of these abled people to have to read the spoiler that the main character kills himself because he doesn’t think that his life is worth living now that he’s disabled. In fact, it’s downright mean for me to keep talking about the fact that the ending to the book involves the main character killing himself because he doesn’t think that his life is worth living now that he’s disabled. After all, I respect the wishes of the abled community and if they want me to stop talking about an ending wherein the main character kills himself because he doesn’t think that his life is worth living now that he’s disabled, I will stop talking about the ending wherein the main character kills himself because he doesn’t think that his life is worth living now that he’s disabled. Even though the ending, the one wherein the main character kills himself because he doesn’t think that his life is worth living now that he’s disabled, is horrendously disgusting and offensive to the disabled community, who are currently protesting the movie because of the ending wherein the main character kills himself because he doesn’t think that his life is worth living now that he’s disabled. And as a disability advocate first and foremost I would argue that it’s my job to also protest the ending wherein the main character kills himself because he doesn’t think that his life is worth living now that he’s disabled. In fact, I have received many messages from disabled people who didn’t know that the book/movie ended with the main character killing himself because he doesn’t think that his life is worth living now that he’s disabled. And those people have expressed gratitude that I warned them of the ending wherein the main character kills himself because he doesn’t think that his life is worth living now that he’s disabled. Because had those people seen the movie wherein the main character kills himself because he doesn’t think that his life is worth living now that he’s disabled, they would have been extremely upset, and not just because a character killing himself because he doesn’t think that his life is worth living now that he’s disabled is sad but because it truly is offensive and sickening to have an ending wherein the main character kills himself because he doesn’t think that his life is worth living now that he’s disabled. Be that as it may, I do owe something to the abled community probably and because of this, I will henceforth put a spoiler alert in my posts so that they don’t have to read about the ending wherein the main character kills himself because he doesn’t think that his life is worth living now that he’s disabled.

Spoiler Alert:

The main character kills himself because he doesn’t think that his life is worth living now that he’s disabled.

You folks have to stop reblogging this.

Otherwise some poor abled person is going to see the spoiler that (Spoiler Alert) the main character kills himself because he doesn’t think that his life is worth living now that he’s disabled. And we can’t have that.

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