Introduction. 1. Parasocial contact effects and a disabled actor in Speechless. 2. Women with disability: Sex object and supercrip stereotyping on reality television's Push Girls. 3. A critical examination of the intersection of sexuality and disability in Special, a Netflix series. 4.

Euphemistic processes on the MDA Show of Strength Telethon , 2012-2014: The Post-Jerry Lewis years. 5. Hegemonic constructions and corporeal deviance in portrayals of physically disabled women characters on Saturday Night Live. 6. Inspiring people or perpetuating stereotypes?: The complicated case of disability as inspiration. 7. The patronized supercrip: A textual analysis of The Peanut Butter Falcon. 8.

How Silence Rhetorically Constructs Deafness in A Quiet Place: The Silent Treatment. 9. The communication of disability through children's media: Potential, problems, and potential problems. 10. Discursive representations of disability in children's picture books on disabled parents. 11. An interrogation of select Indian literary works through disability discourse: Loud yet unheard. 12.

Abuse and/as disability in Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha's Dirty River: How to speak without words. 13. Media, culture, and news framing of disability in Kenya's Daily Nation newspaper.