Aubrey Smalls On How People With Dwarfism Are Seen
Always Looking Up
08/21/23
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In this week’s episode I welcomed back Aubrey Smalls. Aubrey is an actor and filmmaker with dwarfism. We discuss the importance in learning and understanding dwarfism history, how the representation of dwarfism in media influences and perpetuates society’s treatment of people with dwarfism in the real world, question how the non-disabled and disabled communities see people with dwarfism, his upcoming documentary Dear Average Height People and much, much more.
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This episode was edited and produced by Ben Curwin.
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