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Crip Camp: A Disability Revolution (2020), dir. James Lebrecht and Nicole Newnham

[ID: Six black and white images of disability rights activists during the section 504 sit-in of 1977. The first image shows two people sleeping on a mattress at the foot of a set of stairs, with a wheelchair sitting in the foreground. The rest of the images are close-up shots of individual activists in their wheelchairs or sitting on couches during quieter times in the protest.

The narration from activist Corbett O’Toole reads, “It’s like the world always wants us dead. Disabled people know that every day of our lives. The world doesn’t want us around and wants us dead. We live with that reality, so there’s always gonna be, uh, “Am I gonna survive? Am I gonna push back? Am I gonna fight to be here?” That’s always true. So, if you wanna call that anger, I call it a kind of drive. You know, you have to be willing to thrive or you’re not gonna make it.” /end ID]