THE LIMPING CHICHEN – Making the Alternative MacTaggart speech at the UK’s leading TV festival, Ayling-Ellis explained the countless barriers she has faced in her career, describing “a lonely, upsetting journey.”
Ayling-Ellis explained how she had felt “torn” when scripts had been written for her without input from deaf writers, leading her to play “a deaf character that is either written as a hearing person, or as a deaf stereotype,” and saying that she was “done with being the token deaf character.”
She added that “whilst winning Strictly was an amazing experience, it shouldn’t be allowed to conceal the hardships I have been through to get…Read more at https://limpingchicken.com/2022/08/26/im-done-with-being-the-token-deaf-character-rose-ayling-ellis-criticises-tv-treatment-of-deaf-talent/