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Lia Ferreira leaves the PS bench and citizens with disabilities “no longer feel represented”.
Lia Ferreira leaves the PS bench and citizens with disabilities “no longer feel represented”.
From a young age, Rita Cruz dreamed of and announced her own future: “I am going to be an actress.” This certainty, she recounts in this conversation on “O Tal Podcast”, grew stronger as she got older, through the “little sketches” she performed at school. “It was stronger than me, that need to put creativity into practice.” Today, aware of the importance of everyone feeling represented in fiction, she argues that the “lack of representation closes off the possibility of dreaming.”
Precious Hill says the new Barbie is important both for her and for her 5-year-old daughter Mikko because they were both diagnosed with autism. Photograph by Mattel, Inc.
