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This Remade 'Mean Girls' Scene Highlights an Important Issue With Disability Representation

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What happened: Singer Kiersten Kelly recreated the four-way call scene from “Mean Girls” with other creators with disabilities.

Kelly wrote that idea for the video, which was posted to Kelly’s IGTV, came about after she “found that many of the scenes had characters that were focused around their disability instead of being a character that happens to have a disability.” I reached out to a few of my friends that also have disabilities and brought up the idea of recreating a scene from ‘Mean Girls’ to show that actors with disabilities can successfully portray characters in films and television shows. — Kiersten Kelly, Instagram The Frontlines: As Kelly highlighted, there are often issues with how the disability community is represented in

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