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The film looks not just at disability, but also intersecting issues of gender, race, sexuality and class, and how they play into what types of disabled characters we see and don’t see. The doc takes on how disability informs tropes like the Magical Negro, how blind women are represented as sexual objects to conquer, and how blind men are often shown fighting and driving cars two of the only ways that Hollywood knows how to demonstrate virility. And when it comes to people with disabilities having sex according to the movies, it s nearly always with a person who doesn t have a disability, and done out of pity or rage. ....

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