I put off watching the new Netflix documentary, Crip Camp: A Disability Revolution. As a disability rights colleague commented on my Facebook page, “Sometimes, when a film is loudly touted as ‘it’s ...
Adam Chitwood is a former Managing Editor at Collider, where he covered film and television with a focus on interviews, features, and industry analysis. Note: This is a re-post of our Crip Camp review ...
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 ...
Can a summer camp change the world? If you’re talking Camp Jened in upstate New York, a place that welcomed kids with disabilities for a generation, the answer is yes. “It was a utopia,” camper Denise ...
“I can do everything everyone else can do, it just takes me longer and maybe I do it differently.” This is a common response to my question, “What do you wish people knew about your disability?” I ...
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 ...