This month, we’re watching the 2020 Oscar-nominated documentary “Crip Camp: A Disability Revolution,” which tells the story of a summer camp for teens that inspired a disability rights movement. Camp ...

The saga of Camp Jened, the summer camp for disabled teens that took off in the early 1970s, has enough appeal to consume an entire movie: The annual Catskills event provided ostracized youth with the ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. ConsiderThis I spend a lot of my time talking about the state of disability representation in media. It’s never been a good time ...

With 81 million disabled people in the U.S., the Centers for Disease Control (CDC) estimates that 1 in 4 Americans has at least one disability. That makes disabled people the largest minority in the U ...

Today it would be unthinkable to nickname a summer getaway for children with disabilities "Crip Camp." Yet that was the nickname given to Camp Jened, a summer camp for children, teens and adults with ...

Everybody knows about the Woodstock concert back in 1969 where peace and love were there for everyone to enjoy, except maybe if you were someone with disabilities and weren’t able to walk for miles in ...

Crip Camp Is a Transcendent Celebration of Activist CultureIt’s a shame this Netflix movie can’t be seen with a large, boisterous audience. It’ll make you want to dance and light up a joint.

The title alone—“crip” is of course short for “cripples,” the latter not an acceptable adjective these days, though it is used here by the 1970s media to describe “an occupation army of ...

When Judy Heumann—one of the main subjects of the Oscar-nominated documentary Crip Camp—was five years old in the early 1950s, her mother tried to register her for kindergarten in New York City. The ...

The Obamas' maiden foray into Netflix documentaries, "American Factory," won the Oscar in February, and the former First Couple could be in contention again next year with "Crip Camp: A Disability ...

We just watched the amazing documentary “Crip Camp” again and got reenergized. This full length documentary is the real-life story about a small group of teens with intellectual and developmental ...

Some viewers might balk at the subject matter of "Crip Camp" as too didactic or dour. But that's the ableism talking. I spend a lot of my time talking about the state of disability representation in ...