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Crip Camp: A Disability Revolution
A summer camp where disabled kids got to just be kids. A few years later, those same kids helped change the law. Find your people. ♿✊ #CripCamp
Who it's for
Crip Camp starts at Camp Jened, a loose, free-spirited 1970s summer camp where disabled teenagers were treated as ordinary teenagers, with crushes, jokes and a say in how things ran.
Lonely→Empowered
Feelings it meets
What it is
Crip Camp: A Disability Revolution is a 2020 documentary directed by Nicole Newnham and James LeBrecht that premiered at Sundance and was released on Netflix.
Where to find it
Netflix original documentary (streaming on Netflix). Official curriculum at cripcamp.com/curriculum.
Before you start
Heads up: Footage of institutional mistreatment.
Age: R (per Rotten Tomatoes: sexual references, some language)
Although the world is full of suffering, it is full also of the overcoming of it.Helen Keller, Optimism: An Essay
