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 ...

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 ...

Discover What’s Streaming On: Crip Camp on Netflix has arrived today, and not a moment too soon. Though we are stuck inside, there are ways to continue to educate ourselves, become better people, gain ...

Barack Obama made a surprise appearance during one of the “Crip Camp” socially distanced workshops, with the former president sharing video from the virtual visit Sunday, a day that all marks the 30th ...

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 ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. James LeBrecht is clearly not a big fan of President Donald Trump. But that will not stop LeBrecht, who was born with spina bifida ...

In the early 1970s, a then 15-year-old Jim LeBrecht spent a summer at Camp Jened in upstate New York. For LeBrecht, who was born with spina bifida and uses a wheelchair, the experience at a hippie-run ...

The latest Netflix documentary follows the history of midcentury disability rights activism in the United States and tells the story of Camp Jened, a safe haven in upstate New York for the differently ...

A Netflix documentary explains how a camp for people with disabilities inspired an activist movement A Netflix documentary explains how a camp for people with disabilities inspired an activist ...

You probably can tell right from its title that the blissfully politically incorrect Crip Camp is not going to be the standard documentary about the lives of America’s disabled population. Far from it ...

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 ...