Lizzy Weiss

Writer (Switched at Birth & Blue Crush) Also: mom, wife, feminist, Boxer owner, sign language student, native Angeleno, lover of lockets, toast & jumpsuits.

[eisha 🍒 @meishato]

everyone is talking about how poor people shouldn’t be allowed to buy junk food with food stamps… i don’t think billionaires should be able to buy 14 year olds on a private island

[Lizzy Weiss @Lizzy_Weiss]

@offbeatorbit YESSSSSSS

[Historic Vids @historyinmemes]

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 Parks became an icon of the Civil Rights movement?

Many of the "incidents" within the Civil Rights movement were, in fact, meticulously orchestrated by the NAACP. Colvin, being an unmarried, pregnant teenager at the time, led the NAACP to reenact the incident with Rosa Parks, a respected older woman in her community. The NAACP wanted to avoid choosing someone who could be easily discredited or attacked.

It's important to note that Rosa Parks' protest had a specific purpose: to challenge the notion of "separate but equal." In Montgomery, Alabama, buses at that time designated the front half for white individuals and the back half for Black individuals. If the "separate but equal" rule were true, once the white section filled, white passengers should have been turned away. However, this didn't happen. Instead, the bus driver expanded the white section and forced Black passengers to move back a row. Rosa Parks, not seated in the front of the bus but in the front of the Black section, refused to give up her seat. Her arrest highlighted that "separate but equal" was a false concept.

When asked years later if she would repeat her actions, Colvin expressed, "I feel very, very proud of what I did. I do feel like what I did was a spark and it caught on. I'm not disappointed. Let the people know Rosa Parks was the right person for the boycott. But also let them know that the attorneys took four other women to the Supreme Court to challenge the law that led to the end of segregation."

[Marlee Matlin @MarleeMatlin]

It’s a @SABTVSeries 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?? @WGAWest @WGAEast @sagaftra @FreeformTV

[Lizzy Weiss @Lizzy_Weiss]

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.
https://t.co/P5T5XMWsgp

[Lizzy Weiss @Lizzy_Weiss]

https://t.co/hlZcNTJm1w

Behind the scenes of #BlueCrush

[Lizzy Weiss @Lizzy_Weiss]

@SarahWatson42 How did I never know this story? I love that Starbucks! xx

[Lizzy Weiss @Lizzy_Weiss]

Shout out to @susanorlean 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) 🌻🌊☀️

https://t.co/I8oRlQwbvu

[Lizzy Weiss @Lizzy_Weiss]

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)

[Lizzy Weiss @Lizzy_Weiss]

"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)

[Lizzy Weiss @Lizzy_Weiss]

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/...

[Lizzy Weiss @Lizzy_Weiss]

@phroggy10 Yes !! She was hell bent on being a doctor. Thanks for watching

[Lizzy Weiss @Lizzy_Weiss]

@iproposethis This morning 2 guys were parking underneath a sign that said there is street sweeping bt 8 AM & 11 AM. I was trying to help them avoid a ticket so pointed out that they couldn’t park there - they assumed I was chastising them instead of helping them and told me to F off. Yep.

[Lizzy Weiss @Lizzy_Weiss]

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. https://t.co/ecsYs8yKhN

[Lizzy Weiss @Lizzy_Weiss]

Or a man who fought off a 70-pound pitfall who was attacking a woman he had never met. https://t.co/YBfwZT4fsr

[Lizzy Weiss @Lizzy_Weiss]

This one is about a 10 year old boy who drowned trying to save his five year old sister. https://t.co/vvWph4qmXG

[Lizzy Weiss @Lizzy_Weiss]

One of my favorite accounts is @carnegie_hero 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. https://t.co/ZWw6f4utxR

[Lizzy Weiss @Lizzy_Weiss]

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 🤟🏽

[metacritic @metacritic]

#SwitchedAtBirth ended 5 years ago today

Here's an oral history of the show, as told by show creator @Lizzy_Weiss and stars @KatieLeClerc, @VanessaMarano, and @goconstance https://t.co/69HfIB4gKZ

[Lizzy Weiss @Lizzy_Weiss]

This is super smart.

[The Lily @thelilynews]

Meet Susanne Post, the hairdresser and domestic violence survivor who got Tennessee to require domestic violence training for cosmetologists.

https://t.co/R6VsXbep7e

[Lizzy Weiss @Lizzy_Weiss]

Congratulations to my friends @MarleeMatlin @DanielNDurant and to @TroyKotsur & everyone else involved - Love love love seeing deaf actors celebrated and given great roles and stories. Here is to many more! 🤟🤟

[The Actor Awards @theactorawards]

We're smiling from ear to ear 🤟 CODA receives the Actor® for Outstanding Performance by a Cast in a Motion Picture! #sagawards