Ten years ago today ! Thanks for remembering 💗

youtu.be/qp_MQWHMo9s Ten years ago today, #SwitchedatBirth premiered with ASL front and center & deaf actors in major storylines on Freeform. Here’s one great example! Best of all, it inspired millions to learn ASL. Thank you Lizzy Weiss and the SAB

Yes, deaf performers are breaking through! Here's to even more projects starring deaf, disabled, and folks from all walks of life.

12 year old daughter was told in the office to "raise her hands over her head" and then he stared at her stomach to inspect to see if an inch of skin was showing when she did that. Are we really doing this to girls still? SMH.

Congratulations to my friends Marlee Matlin Daniel N. Durant and to Troy Kotsur & everyone else involved - Love love love seeing deaf actors celebrated and given great roles and stories. Here is to many more! 🤟🤟

This is super smart.

First TV show to feature multiple deaf protagonists and ASL in every one of its 103 episodes. Five years ago we concluded our five-year run with a lot of tears and pride. An oral history of #SwitchedatBirth 🤟🏽

One of my favorite accounts is Carnegie Hero Fund They give medals to individuals who risk their lives to save a stranger. Anytime I give up hope in humanity, I spend time reading some stories of recipients. carnegiehero.org/heroes/latest-…

This one is about a 10 year old boy who drowned trying to save his five year old sister. carnegiehero.org/ricky-lee-snev…

Or a man who fought off a 70-pound pitfall who was attacking a woman he had never met. carnegiehero.org/evan-daniel-to…

I heard a report abt Ukrainian women being sexually assaulted which means it's time to read stories from the Carnegie Hero Fund again to renew my faith in humanity. Here are people who put themselves at risk to save the lives of complete strangers TWICE. carnegiehero.org/heroes/roll-of…

Thread! Today it is 20 years since the movie Blue Crush premiered. This is a movie about an athlete overcoming her fear and surfing some of the scariest waves in the world yet was dismissed by mostly male critics in 2002 as, "babes on boards," 1/...

"Flashdance with surf wax," "the hot bod movie of the summer," and (NYT): "you can ogle Anne Marie or you can aspire to be just like her, whatever gets you stoked, dude." (Are all moviegoers dudes?) There was also a lot of "don't laugh but, this movie is actually good!" (2)

I wonder why the first instinct upon seeing a poster of three athletic women facing an enormous wave would be to laugh? This is a movie that women of a certain age talk about with deep affection and pride so I dunno, I think we did something right! (3)

Shout out to Susan Orlean for writing the original article upon which it was based. Here is a chat about it and I think there are more coming this week to celebrate this movie. If you love it, I see you, I'm happy it meant something to you. (4/end) 🌻🌊☀️ monsterchildren.com/the-20th-anniv…

eonline.com/news/1341805/s… Behind the scenes of #BlueCrush

Turns out today is the 12 year anniversary of Switched at Birth premiering. In honor of that, I talked to a fantastic script consultant/former TV exec who I highly recommend for anyone who needs an experienced set of eyes or TV career guidance. rebecca-stay.com/showrunner-wri…

It’s a Switched at Birth reunion on the picket lines! We are supporting our writers, writer/producers and Lizzy Weiss! Once this is over it looks like a good time for a #SwitchedatBirth reboot - don’t you think?? Writers Guild of America West Writers Guild of America East SAG-AFTRA Freeform

This is literally a coming of age movie 😭

Claudette Colvin, at the age of 15 in 1955, refused to relinquish her seat to a white woman on a bus, asserting, "it's my constitutional right to sit here." This action occurred nine months before Rosa Parks' renowned protest. So, why did Colvin largely fade into obscurity while