SYDNEY, March 3 (Reuters) – Hannah Diviney, identified with cerebral palsy at beginning, is hoping Walt Disney Co (DIS.N) will create a princess character with disabilities, spearheading a marketing campaign that has garnered assist from Reese Witherspoon, Jameela Jamil and Mark Hamill.
Sydney resident Diviney stated she believes her life, and journey in the direction of self-love and acceptance, would have been totally different if she had seen constructive representations of individuals with disabilities in films whereas rising up.
“The marketing campaign is mainly to create a disabled Disney princess and the rationale for that particularly is as a result of Disney princesses are those that get essentially the most visibility,” Diviney advised Reuters in an interview.
“They’re those you see on the bedspreads and the toys and the books and the birthday events and the Halloween costumes and all of that, so form of wished to go for optimum visibility with my alternative there.”
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Diviney started a web based marketing campaign for Disney to create a princess character with disabilities in 2020 and the petition has now obtained 64,000 signatures.
The 23-year-old, who’s an editor for a web based information platform for girls and just lately starred in Australian TV sequence “Latecomers”, stated it was exhausting rising up feeling totally different from the opposite youngsters.
Diviney final 12 months known as out Beyonce and Lizzo on Twitter for utilizing ‘spaz’, a derogatory time period for spastic diplegia, of their songs. Each artists later eliminated the ableist slur after her tweets went viral and recorded the songs once more.
Cerebral palsy impacts an individual’s capacity to maneuver and preserve posture, affecting round 0.1% of Australia’s close to 26 million inhabitants. The commonest kind is spastic diplegia, which Diviney is identified with.
“‘Spaz’ has been popularised as a type of slur or cultural shorthand to imply like somebody dropping management or being unintelligent or having no management of their feelings … it was positively a phrase that youngsters use within the playground, typically at me, typically round me,” she stated.
Reporting by Cordelia Hsu; Writing by Renju Jose; Modifying by Stephen Coates
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