Disability Diversity: People with Disabilities Want More Performers to Truly Fit Roles

The hit series Glee, which regularly celebrates diversity and the underdog, has an inherent contradiction: they’ve cast a non-disabled actor to play a paraplegic high school student. Disability advocates see it as another blown chance to hire a performer who truly fits the role.

As I write in chapter 9 of “The Inclusion Paradox: The Obama Era and the Transformation of Global Diversity,” Disability is the diversity issue we fear the most. And fear indeed seems to be behind the why of this blatant gap according to this MSNBC story: “Disabled want more performers to truly fit roles.”

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