#crip camp

[writing2changetheworld]

Yesterday was the 36th anniversary of the Capitol Crawl.

On March 12, 1990, to get the ADA passed, many wheelchair users and people who use other mobility aids cast aside said mobility aids and climbed up the steps of the State Capitol in Washington D.C., demonstrating the inaccessibility of the world.

The youngest person to take part was Jennifer Keelan-Chaffins. She was 8 years old at the time. As she was climbing, she, very famously yelled. (quote) "I'll take all night if I have to!" (end quote)

Video footage of the Capitol Crawl (including Jennifer) can be found in the documentary "Crip Camp" which can be found on Netflix.

[twilightofthesandwiches]

Favorite of These Movies?

Crip Camp

Woodlands Dark and Days Bewitched: A History of Folk Horror

Spider-Man: No Way Home

Guillermo del Toro's Pinocchio

Puss in Boots: The Last Wish

Godzilla Minus One

Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse

Wallace & Gromit: Vengeance Most Fowl

Deadpool & Wolverine

The Secret Agent

No Other Choice

Superman

Voting ended onApr 8

[patrocle1500]

I wrote a post a few days ago about the documentary "Crip Camp : A Disability Revolution", and here are some new thoughts on the part about Section 504 in the early 70s. I am so happy to see that disability activism isn't something new. It makes me proud that the police are actually afraid of us too. It makes me proud to see the intersection of our different struggles. The Black Panther Party, who had very few resources themselves, came to bring them food every day while they were occupying the building to demand disability civil rights. When asked 'Why are you helping us?', one of the Panthers replied: 'Because you are trying to make the world a better place, and we will help anybody who is trying to make a better place for everyone.' The intersection of our struggles is so important. We outnumber those who dominate us, so let's not give up on this damn movement. All over the world.

[chronicillnessresourcelibrary]

TV, Movie, & Documentary Recommendations

I've seen some recommendations for...

Crip Camp – In 1971 at Camp Jened, a summer camp in New York, disabled teens develop into activists in the disability rights movement and the fight for accessibility legislation.

Unrest – After Jennifer Brea, a Ph.D. student, is struck down by a fever that leaves her bedridden, she sets out to document her story as she fights a disease that medicine ignores, and interviews others confined to their homes by ME/CFS.

Reblog with your tv show, movie, and documentary recommendations ✌️

[badela]

Crip Camp (2020)

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Directors: James Lebrecht, Nicole Newnham

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[schizoaffectively]

I watched the documentary "Crip Camp" about a week ago now, and I wanted to hold off on giving my opinion until I had some time to let it settle in in my brain. After watching it, I felt so happy and loved it! I can easily say that I love it just as much as when I finished it a week ago! I highly recommend it to anyone interested in disabled history in the US!

What I love most about it is that it shows the history of the disabled community and disability civil rights movement in a very real way, with the voices of some of the people who paved that path! It also doesn't sanitize the disabled experience like some other pieces of media do, such as touching upon romance and sex while being disabled.

It also taught me some history I didn't know about my own community! I knew a chunk of it, but other things I did not! They don't teach about disabled history much in school, or at least didn't where I was and when I was in school... if that has changed, let me know!

Anyways, can't recommend this documentary enough. Loved it with all my heart.

[monsieurenjlolras]

happy disibility pride this month like every month I am telling you to go watch Crip Camp. this is not a request and you will thank me for it

[neroushalvaus]

Trevor Noah interviewing Judith “Badass” Heumann

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