What's happening with the Disability Readathon

[kestrell]

*so* much is happening on the Disability Readathon, and you can view it all on most of the major social media platforms, or just Google
Disability Readathon
but here is the Twitter link, which I am occasionally checking in on
https://twitter.com/DisabilityRead

Also, I just tweeted about Crip Camp, which I only just watched for the first time. You can find it on Youtube, but Netflix has a decent audio description track, and also offers a downloadable transcript of the documentary.

This was *so* amazing! And there is so much history that never gets mentioned, like the way the Black Panthers fed the disabled San Francisco protesters who staged a sit-in for 23 days, and the gay and lesbian protesters and supporters.

Comments

Indeed, while Crip Camp is a good intro

[jesse_the_k]

...there are many stories not included.

Corbett Joan O'Toole's memoir Fading Scars, My Queer Disability History on Amazon in print and Kindle; at Ingram for print; on Bookshare

goes behind the frozen story, where Ed Roberts is The Leader. O'Toole tells how and why the Panthers got involved, and how the CIL threw away the chance at mutual aid. She introduced me to Kitty Cone, another queer crip communist. She takes the reader to 1995 Beijing for the 4th UN Women's Conference, and explains how they created an accessible space (since the organizers had no clue that disabled women existed.)

Crip Camp criticism

[jesse_the_k]

I appreciated Marrok Sedgwick's Crip Camp criticism criticism in the most recent DSQ: Disability Studies Quarterly

Abstract of 2000 word-review

Crip Camp (2020) follows the structure of a well-made film (Simon, 1972), and echoes the social issue film genre (Byars, 1991), thereby telling a clear, chronological story that reifies conservative family values as the solution to challenges faced by society. Through this structure, it fails to push for the change it claims to seek, while presenting content that objectifies people with cognitive disabilities, minimizes the contributions of Black disabled people and LGBT+ disabled people, and erases the voices of non-Black disabled people of color. Crip Camp fails to use the medium of film to present (through tools of filmmaking and the content within) alternative interdependent maps (Mitchell & Snyder, 2017), or reimagine what society can be.