pragnificent:

borderlineanders:

priscillajeanohare:

fdkfjslfdja ppl are mad that the female protagonist in The Shape of Water doesn’t speak oh my goD she’s the main character nonetheless and communicates with sign language…her “voice” has not been taken away, she just doesn’t communicate in a way that the average person is used to. the force of her voice isn’t heard by her oppressors for precisely that reason – she is “otherized” for it, much like the creature in the tank is for being what he is – and somehow I doubt he speaks conventionally either. that doesn’t mean either of them have no agency. 

#‘hmm i dont like that she’s disabled but how do i sugarcoat this?’

“How do I make my deep seated ableism read as a feminist position?”