Shadowhunter's cast on Representation.

 

Shadowhunters & Beyond Screening 2016 Q&A Panel - YouTube 

This is a really interesting discussion around this show it is a great show and something that I see that is very rare is the cast are passionate about the representation of the character and something that resonated with me was that they listened to people who are telling their own story and that your story isn't the story of the larger group. 

The actors seem to really understand this, and the level of research that they do is amazing, to not fall into the stereotypes of the tropes of what people think of not what people are, and not the reality, is this has been brought out, in the time of Covid, and shown the reality of what people can do to tell their own stories. 

He was talking about the LGBT community yet I see many parallels between this and disability representation. That our stories aren't the typical narrative of life due to illness or disability and this seems to be a similar thing in reality. 

 They are also talking about growing up and feeling different, this is something that people with disability that are - Mainstreamed seem to struggle with, the fact that we can't have a normal life. Yet there isn't the ability and services that we need.