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Alison Wilde has a PhD from the Centre for Disability Studies which focused on portrayals of disability in the media. Her dao blog contains discussion of contemporary films and the occasional bit of television. Alison spends much of her leisure time at the local cinema, providing her with plenty of material... good and bad and ugly.

Disability in Coronation Street: Izzy Armstrong ITV1, July 2011

2 August 2011

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Gary and Izzy from Coronation Street

Now, I’m a big fan of Coronation Street  (the only soap I make time to watch) and I’m certainly not going to complain about its increasingly rainbow-coloured community – I love the idea of Audrey falling in love with Mark/Marcia and coveting his feminine clothes. I would like to think that many of us will be living such pleasurable lives at 70, rather than eking out our days on memories, waiting for an over-worked care attendant to get us out of bed. And I’m not even...

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