{"id":188880,"date":"2017-01-10T05:30:21","date_gmt":"2017-01-10T13:30:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/disabilityvisibilityproject.com\/?p=188880"},"modified":"2026-02-12T17:22:21","modified_gmt":"2026-02-13T01:22:21","slug":"meryl-streeps-golden-globes-speech-reaction-from-disabled-people","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/disabilityvisibilityproject.com\/2017\/01\/10\/meryl-streeps-golden-globes-speech-reaction-from-disabled-people\/","title":{"rendered":"Meryl Streep&#8217;s Golden Globes Speech: Reactions from Disabled People"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"embed-twitter\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">The &quot;disabled reporter&quot; has a name. It&#39;s Serge Kovaleski. He&#39;s not a political prop or punchline, he&#39;s a Pulitzer Prize winning journalist.<\/p>\n<p>&mdash; DEREK DELGAUDIO (@derek_del) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/derek_del\/status\/818581585083539457\">January 9, 2017<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/div>\n<p>Meryl Streep gave an acceptance speech at the Golden Globe awards on January 8, 2017 where she mentioned a Serge Kovaleski, disabled reporter for the New York Times (but not by name) and the treatment he received by Trump. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2017\/01\/08\/arts\/television\/meryl-streep-golden-globes-speech.html\">Full text transcript here.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Social media blew up praising and criticizing Streep. While many people w\/ disabilities thanked Streep for the mention, my reaction was ambivalent. When asked on Twitter, I responded:<\/p>\n<div class=\"embed-twitter\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Melogranapolis\">@Melogranapolis<\/a> I&#39;m amazed at how many people think of Trump &amp; disability they cite this one incident than larger systemic assaults on us<\/p>\n<p>&mdash; alice wong (@SFdirewolf) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/SFdirewolf\/status\/818349844767133697\">January 9, 2017<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/div>\n<div class=\"embed-twitter\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">YES!! How many of the folks who applauded at Meryl&#39;s speech going speak out on the decimation of the <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/ACA?src=hash\">#ACA<\/a> &amp; <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/Medicaid?src=hash\">#Medicaid<\/a>? <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/CripTheVote?src=hash\">#CripTheVote<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/WoY1UFDXo5\">https:\/\/t.co\/WoY1UFDXo5<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; alice wong (@SFdirewolf) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/SFdirewolf\/status\/818348721775644673\">January 9, 2017<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/div>\n<p>Below are some tweets, blog posts, and articles by disabled people about the speech and the overall framing of disabled people in the media.<\/p>\n<p>Erin Hawley (January 12, 2017).\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.rootedinrights.org\/dear-meryl-streep-we-dont-want-pity-we-want-progress\/\">Dear Meryl Streep: We Don\u2019t Want Pity, We Want Progress.<\/a> Rooted in Rights.<\/p>\n<p>Emily Ladau (January 9, 2017). <a href=\"https:\/\/theestablishment.co\/im-a-disabled-woman-who-s-not-celebrating-meryl-streep-s-golden-globes-speech-8d67173122e7#.yhzs6wyqv\">I&#8217;m\u00a0A Disabled Woman Who\u2019s NOT Celebrating Meryl Streep\u2019s Golden Globes\u00a0Speech.<\/a> The Establishment.<\/p>\n<p>Sarah Levis (January 9, 2017).\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.girlwiththecane.com\/meryl-streep\/\">Meryl Streep, We Don&#8217;t Need Your Outrage<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Bill Peace (January 9, 2017).\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/badcripple.blogspot.com\/2017\/01\/meryl-streep-ableism-and-help.html\">Meryl Streep, Ableism and Help.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>s.e. smith (January 10, 2017).\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/bitchmedia.org\/article\/streep-trump-and-tktktk\">Meryl Streep, Listen Up: #Disability Shouldn&#8217;t Be the Only Trump Card You Play. <\/a>Bitch Media.<\/p>\n<p>Jessy Yates (January 11, 2017).\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.alternet.org\/culture\/what-meryl-streep-should-know-about-disabled-community\">Dear Meryl Streep, the Disabled Community Has Bigger Fish to Fry Than Donald Trump&#8217;s Mockery. <\/a>AlterNet.<\/p>\n<div class=\"embed-twitter\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">I sort of appreciate Meryl Streep calling out Trump&#39;s mockery last night, but can we put that incident behind us, but &#8230; <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/CripTheVote?src=hash\">#CripTheVote<\/a> 1\/2<\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Andrew Pulrang (@AndrewPulrang) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/AndrewPulrang\/status\/818486012221460481\">January 9, 2017<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/div>\n<div class=\"embed-twitter\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">&#8230; it&#39;s time to move past that incident &amp; focus on policies that actually harm us, rather than Trump hurting our feelings. <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/CripTheVote?src=hash\">#CripTheVote<\/a> 2\/2<\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Andrew Pulrang (@AndrewPulrang) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/AndrewPulrang\/status\/818488022782119936\">January 9, 2017<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/div>\n<div class=\"embed-twitter\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">So again we&#39;re Tweeting about Trump, Kovaleski, Streep, and mockery, when we should be tweeting this. <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/CripTheVote?src=hash\">#CripTheVote<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/BIQJ0saLxW\">https:\/\/t.co\/BIQJ0saLxW<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Andrew Pulrang (@AndrewPulrang) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/AndrewPulrang\/status\/818492521953296384\">January 9, 2017<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/div>\n<p>Twitter thread by Kim Sauder:<\/p>\n<div class=\"embed-twitter\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">OK, we need to have a chat abt <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/MerylStreep?src=hash\">#MerylStreep<\/a> &amp; her Golden Globes speech<\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Kim Sauder (@crippledscholar) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/crippledscholar\/status\/818513044519194626\">January 9, 2017<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/div>\n<p>Twitter thread by Emily Ladau:<\/p>\n<div class=\"embed-twitter\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">If everyone applauding Streep for calling out Trump&#39;s mocking a disabled reporter STILL thinks that&#39;s the biggest problem with Trump&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Emily Ladau (@emily_ladau) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/emily_ladau\/status\/818304001552871424\">January 9, 2017<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/div>\n<div class=\"embed-twitter\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Jeez, where are you all,you non-disabled ppl, when it&#39;s not Trump &quot;mocking&quot; disabled ppl, but hate, scrounger rhetoric+austerity killing us?<\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Mika Murstein (@MikaMurstein) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/MikaMurstein\/status\/818443333890699265\">January 9, 2017<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/heidiheilig\/status\/818424768147976192\" rel=\"nofollow\">https:\/\/twitter.com\/heidiheilig\/status\/818424768147976192<\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"embed-twitter\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Int how disability figures even in Streep&#39;s impassioned speech: as sign of weakness. Yet PwDs are fighting for their rights. <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/DisVisibility\">@DisVisibility<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/QWrbp5PSDe\">https:\/\/t.co\/QWrbp5PSDe<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Lisa Diedrich (@lldiedrich) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/lldiedrich\/status\/818435429301178368\">January 9, 2017<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/div>\n<div class=\"embed-twitter\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">THE DISABLED COMMUNITY HAS BEEN ***ALL ALONG***.<\/p>\n<p>&mdash; D. Morgenstern (@sieistschoen) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/sieistschoen\/status\/818478311873445889\">January 9, 2017<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/div>\n<div class=\"embed-twitter\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/JoyAnnReid\">@JoyAnnReid<\/a> Disgraceful that panel analyzing video of <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/Trump?src=hash\">#Trump<\/a> mocking <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/disabled?src=hash\">#disabled<\/a> reporter &amp; Meryl Streep&#39;s remarks has no disabled panelists.<\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Gregory Mansfield (@GHMansfield) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/GHMansfield\/status\/818696252649066496\">January 10, 2017<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/div>\n<div class=\"embed-twitter\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">[Thread] I keep seeing non disabled ppl talk about how they are appalled that DT mocked a disabled person.<\/p>\n<p>&mdash; \u3164 (@HijaDe2Madre) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/HijaDe2Madre\/status\/818567451403120646\">January 9, 2017<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/div>\n<p>Twitter thread by Alex Haagaard:<\/p>\n<div class=\"embed-twitter\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Okay, controversial opinion time. <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/MerylStreep?src=hash\">#MerylStreep<\/a> needs to work on her disability allyship.<\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Alex Haagaard (@alexhaagaard) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/alexhaagaard\/status\/818477579489472512\">January 9, 2017<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/div>\n<p>Twitter thread by\u00a0Zo\u00e9 Samudzi:<\/p>\n<div class=\"embed-twitter\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Many of us non-disabled folks, including myself, are really struggling with language &amp; framings around disability wrt Serge Kovaleski.<\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Zo\u00e9 Samudzi (@ztsamudzi) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ztsamudzi\/status\/818698010301493248\">January 10, 2017<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/div>\n<div class=\"embed-twitter\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">What Meryl Streep\u2019s Speech Meant For Disability In Hollywood <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/plecuRaLMX\">https:\/\/t.co\/plecuRaLMX<\/a> via <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/arianelange\">@arianelange<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/DannyWoodburn\">@dannywoodburn<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/maysoonzayid\">@maysoonzayid<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Marlee Matlin (@MarleeMatlin) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/MarleeMatlin\/status\/818676715991879680\">January 10, 2017<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/div>\n<div class=\"embed-twitter\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/MerylStreep?src=hash\">#MerylStreep<\/a> won <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/GoldenGlobes?src=hash\">#GoldenGlobes<\/a> with her extraordinary words! Thank you for amplifying the need to SEE &amp; HEAR us ALL! <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/DisabilitySolidarity?src=hash\">#DisabilitySolidarity<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/cAcsP9LdfN\">https:\/\/t.co\/cAcsP9LdfN<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Anastasia Somoza (@AnastasiaSomoza) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/AnastasiaSomoza\/status\/818302122399854592\">January 9, 2017<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/div>\n<div class=\"embed-twitter\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">YES!!!!!! <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/MerylStreep?src=hash\">#MerylStreep<\/a> calling out <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/supremacist?src=hash\">#supremacist<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/realDonaldTrump\">@realDonaldTrump<\/a> bullying <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/disabled?src=hash\">#disabled<\/a> who are ignored &amp; exploited by <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/Hollywood?src=hash\">#Hollywood<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/GoldenGlobes?src=hash\">#GoldenGlobes<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Maysoon Zayid (@maysoonzayid) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/maysoonzayid\/status\/818295834639007744\">January 9, 2017<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/div>\n<div class=\"embed-twitter\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">BC nondisabled people mostly don&#39;t GAF about the rights violations disabled people deal with day in and day out. Mockery is the least of it. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/q1mj5eSWVe\">https:\/\/t.co\/q1mj5eSWVe<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Heather Ure (@riotheatherrr) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/riotheatherrr\/status\/818305566363697152\">January 9, 2017<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/div>\n<p>Twitter thread by Kaitlyn Plyley:<\/p>\n<div class=\"embed-twitter\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Quick thread on what Meryl&#39;s Golden Globes speech means to me<\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Kaitlyn Plyley (@kplyley) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/kplyley\/status\/818342238107250688\">January 9, 2017<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The &quot;disabled reporter&quot; has a name. It&#39;s Serge Kovaleski. He&#39;s not a political prop or punchline, he&#39;s a Pulitzer Prize winning journalist. &mdash; DEREK DELGAUDIO (@derek_del) January 9, 2017 Meryl &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/disabilityvisibilityproject.com\/2017\/01\/10\/meryl-streeps-golden-globes-speech-reaction-from-disabled-people\/\" class=\"read-more\">Continue Reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Meryl Streep&#8217;s Golden Globes Speech: Reactions from Disabled People<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"_wpas_customize_per_network":false,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[548706274],"tags":[159346,40576,289446,316,58430,292,398,467532],"class_list":["post-188880","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-dvp-blog-posts-and-essays","tag-ableism","tag-disability","tag-disabled-people","tag-journalism","tag-journalists","tag-media","tag-politics","tag-trump","post-no-thumbnail"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4H7t1-N8s","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/disabilityvisibilityproject.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/188880","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/disabilityvisibilityproject.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/disabilityvisibilityproject.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/disabilityvisibilityproject.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/disabilityvisibilityproject.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=188880"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/disabilityvisibilityproject.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/188880\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/disabilityvisibilityproject.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=188880"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/disabilityvisibilityproject.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=188880"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/disabilityvisibilityproject.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=188880"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}