Join our fourth Twitter chat on August 23 on independent living and employment at 9/8c! Featuring Megan Bomgaars, Born This Way cast member and owner of @Megologcom! Hosted by Lauren Appelbaum and Cara Liebowitz of RespectAbility, this Twitter chat will take a look at ideas explored in Born This Way by the young adults with [click to continue...]
Our first Twitter chat was held on July 26, the season’s premiere. We followed that up with another chat on international travel and dating on August 9. Join us again on August 16 for a chat on living independently and employment and every week at 9/8c leading up each episode! Featuring Megan Bomgaars, Born This Way cast member and [click to continue...]
Our first Twitter chat was held on July 26, the season’s premiere. Join us again on August 9 and every week at 9/8c leading up each episode! Featuring Megan Bomgaars, Born This Way cast member and owner of @Megologcom! Hosted by Lauren Appelbaum and Cara Liebowitz of RespectAbility, this Twitter chat will take a look [click to continue...]
Featuring Megan Bomgaars, Born This Way cast member and owner of @Megologycom! Hosted by Lauren Appelbaum and Cara Liebowitz of RespectAbility, this Twitter chat will take a look at ideas explored in Born This Way by the young adults with Down syndrome and their parents. Following this chat, join us in live tweeting the first [click to continue...]
Washington, July 25 – This month, A&E’s Born This Way, a show staring people with disabilities, was nominated for three Emmy awards. The show follows seven young adults with Down syndrome as they live, work and love in Los Angeles. Previously it was chosen as one of six honorees for the 2016 Television Academy Honors, an [click to continue...]
Washington, July 20 – As Hollywood executives are looking for the next big ideas for film and television, they are learning that disability is a winning theme. Many people are writing about the fact that disability often is absent from mainstream film and television – both the depiction of and, even when a character has a [click to continue...]
Washington, July 14 – A&E Network’s critically acclaimed and award-winning original docuseries Born This Way’s honors keep adding up – showing that disability is a winning theme. Born This Way was nominated for an Emmy this morning for Outstanding Unstructured Reality Program. In addition, two episodes were nominated for Outstanding Picture Editing for an Unstructured Reality Program. Produced by [click to continue...]
A&E® Network and Bunim/Murray Productions Invite you to a Special Screening Event BORN THIS WAY DATE: Tuesday, December 1 TIME: 5:00 PM – 7:30 PM LOCATION: Rayburn House Office Building, Room B-340 Independence Avenue between First Street SW and South Capitol Street SPECIAL GUESTS Representative CATHY MCMORRIS RODGERS 5th Congressional District, Washington Chair of the House [click to continue...]
A&E Network to Premiere New Original Docu-Series “Born This Way” Washington, Nov. 11 – Stigmas matter — and that they are hard to break. This week the horrible news broke that hate crimes against people with disabilities are up 41 percent in one country alone. Thus, I am delighted to share this press release below about a great new stigma-busting show about [click to continue...]
