Disabled workers say they're a canary in the coal mine: “If disability is on the caboose of the writing chain, we will be the first people to get pushed out.”
Workers in film and TV, most of whom are pro-union, have been trying to make ends meet amid a dual strike of Hollywood actors and writers., a group striving to empower mid-level disabled screenwriters. Their hope is to destigmatize disability and diversify culture by focusing on the root of who tells stories in Hollywood.
“Sometimes it takes labor saying ‘no’ for the people who are in charge to actually listen,” says Keisha Zollar, currently on strike with both the WGA and SAG-AFTRA. “They want to make us so desperate that we’ll take nothing and we’ll decline our way into economic oppression.”Sheridan O’Donnell is another filmmaker who received financial support from Inevitable Foundation.
“The writers that are multiply and historically marginalized, [those with disabilities] among them, are the ones that are going to hurt the most from the strike,” says co-founder Richie Siegel. In aconducted leading up to the strike, Inevitable Foundation found that 57% of writers surveyed said they would lose work or income if there was a strike, with a potential loss of more than $2 million in earnings.
Richie Siegel and Marisa Torelli-Pedesvska founded Inevitable Foundation to empower mid-level disabled screenwriters. Their hope is to destigmatize disability and diversify culture by focusing on the root of who tells stories in Hollywood.
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