Having worked in TV for nearly 30 years, something huge was missing from this seemingly happy landscape — good representations of disability.
"The idea for Mixmups started in 2015 when I was tidying my kids’ bedroom and noticed there were no representations of disability among their toys.
I looked at Google but found nothing except pirates with one leg or grandparent figures using grey wheelchairs.
I wondered why no one had played creatively with the aesthetics of disability in toys, why these figures were stuck in the dusty margins of design."
Enter Mixmups, a colourful television series created by Rebecca Atkinson that is filled to the brim with disability and access.
Each episode begins with the friends cooking up an idea for a play – to go to space for a moon cheese sandwich, find a magical library where all the books can talk or catch a lost dream in a jar so that they can remember it forever.
Read more about the Mixmups below.
Catch the series premiere on February 24 at 3:15pm on TVOkids!
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