By CHRISTINA CARON, THE NEW YORK TIMES The teenage girl was headed to California, and the man to Oregon. They weren’t supposed to be on the same flight, but their chance encounter came to be widely known and celebrated. The girl, Clara Daly, 15, and her mother were traveling home to Calabasas, Calif., and had […]
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UK Oscar winner’s sign-language speech raises profile of ‘silent disability’
By KEVIN RAWLINSON, THE GUARDIAN Rachel Shenton, who wrote and starred in short film The Silent Child, used speech to highlight often overlooked area of diversity Much of the talk before Sunday’s Oscars ceremony was about Hollywood’s moral compass. After 2016’s Oscars So White debacle and the Time’s Up movement, attention was particularly drawn towards […]