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The New York Times staff worked with disability advocates to present films, books, television shows, dance, and artwork that capture disability reports.
By Deborah Leiderman
Xian Horn, disability advocate and variety committee member of ReelAbilities, a film festival featuring other people with disabilities, recommends those films that have in mind that the film “can be a mirror to document all promotional spaces.”
Zak, a child with Down syndrome who does not have a circle of relatives and lives in an old-year-old facility, escapes to pursue his dream of having a fighter. This film has a stellar force such as Dakota Johnson, Bruce Dern, John Hawkes, Shia LaBeouf and Thomas Haden Church. But this is the debut of Zack Gottsagen, “a captivating artist who creates a sweet and funny character” as Zak, Glenn Kenny wrote in his Review of the New York Times.
Young people at a summer camp in top of New York, Camp Jened, lead the historic 504 Sit-in as adults. “No matter how much time you spend at the rest camp,” Ben Kenigsberg wrote in his Review of the Times, “there is a smart chance that his reports wouldn’t be as formative as those told at Crip Camp.”
Darius McCollum’s love of public transportation made him the subject of newspaper headlines for the many trips he made on New York City buses and submarines. But the subtext of this documentary, Neil Genzlinger writes in The Times, is “an unscrupulous justice formula that has nothing to do with treating a criminal like Mr. McCollum, who has Asperger’s syndrome, other than continuing to put him in jail.”
A bipolar drummer and a teenager with Asperger make music in combination in a film that “is airy, funny and optimistic,” Donald Clarke wrote in The Irish Times. “But he’s also still fair to his subjects.”
A remarkably nuanced three-dimensional view of JJ DiMeo (Micah Fowler), a sarcastic, mischievous teenager with cerebral palsy. “The fact that he’s a flawed kid with a flawed family circle in a pretty funny sitcom is what makes ‘Speechless’ good, rather than just worthy,” James Poniewozik wrote in his 2016 review in The Times.
Ryan O’Connell plays Ryan Hayes, who is gay and has cerebral palsy and is leading his first internship as a budding sex life.
Sammi Haney, who has an imperfect osteogenesis, plays Dion’s friend, a child who at one point uses his superpowers to lift her out of his motorized wheelchair.
A folk artist and advocate for the rights of people with disabilities, Lea won NPR Music’s 2016 Tiny Desk festival for her original song “Someday We Linger in the Sun”. She told NPR that it’s about “how love can be just a fight now, but that courage holds.”
Erik Paluszak’s character, who says his “genre is evolving” but may be more productive, is described as a psychedelic alternative rock.
A visually impaired pop dance performer and performer whose songs focus on potentiation. “People have a tendency to realize my disability or not, which is smart because I’m not looking for pity parties,” he told Flame magazine last year.
Singer and songwriter with muscular dystrophy, Tabi mixes R-B, pop, rock, folk, jazz, blues, country and dance. She said on her online page that she had to make a song to laugh in order to exercise her lungs and diaphragm, but her love of music has become a career.
Composer and deaf artist of hip-hop, rap, rock and alternative, Forbes is known for his unique music videos. “When I was five, my parents gave me a Christmas battery and in many tactics it was their way of saying, ‘You can do anything,'” he told the online page HearingLikeMe.com.
A graphic novel through Marieke Nijkamp and Manuel Preitano reinvents the story of Barbara “Oracle” Gordon of DC Comic as a young paraplegic hacker reluctantly trained to solve a mystery in his rehabilitation center.
An anthology of nonfiction essays published through disability activist Alice Wong “gives an idea of the complexity of the experience of people with disabilities,” Penguin Random House said on her website.
In a September memoir, Erin Clark describes her adventure from the time she developed as a disabled woman in Northern Ontario until she became an artist and paraglid living in Spain.
In a memoir to be published this fall, Riva Lehrer explores the development of spina bifida in the 1960s and 1970s with well-meaning parents whose attempts to “fix it” have opposed it until she discovers her own sense of empowerment.
Written and edited through other people with disabilities for others with disabilities, the magazine says on its online page that it seeks to “increase the representation of other people in poor health and disabled in publications and the arts, and challenge stereotypes and destructive misconceptions surrounding disability.”
The account is presented as an area for artists with disabilities and chronic diseases, and its monthly offer is presented in other artists.
A ceramics and clothing designer whose work, according to her website, examines “the pain of the physical body, the accusation of being disabled in our society and the related emotional effect have an effect on both.”
Blue exposes his spirit of self-deprecation in exhibitions such as “Sticky Change” on Amazon Prime Video and on tours. His confrontational position with his cerebral palsy reflects an unusual feeling among many other people with disabilities that they are not explained through a disability.
Anner, who suffers from cerebral palsy – “the sexiest paralysis” – reflects on life on his YouTube channel. Anner made his call by winning the truth exhibition “Your Own Show: Oprah’s Search for the Next TV Star” and became the host of the exhibition “Rollin’ With Zach”.
Perez, who describes himself in his as “the woman in a wheelchair, without feet, who won a treadmill in “The price is right”, jokes about race, dating and life as amputated.
Using virtual truth and video game work, Lee recreates life with a complex regional painful syndrome, a chronic pain-related illness, in a way others feel. She says that persistent pain “can have a devastating effect on both the lives of the people who live in it and the people around them.”
Gupta is a multisensory textile artist whose paintings “everyone can through the commitment of all their senses”, adding touch, smell, hearing and sight.
Kim, who is deaf, is a sound artist whose paintings were featured at the Whitney Biennial last year. She starred in American Sign Language at the Super Bowl, then wrote about the frustration of seeing the cameras move away from her. “Why have a signal language screen inaccessible to anyone who wants to see it?”
For his virtual album “Unseen Relistend”, Slater, who is blind, was encouraged through “a difficult-to-understand clinical theory” that assumes that blind people can hear “transdimensionally” being in a song with the sub-mated of the universe.
This dance collaboration “creates and plays at the crossroads of access, technology, disability, dance and career. It was founded in 2016 under the direction and artistic direction of Alice Sheppard, and is an ensemble founded on an assignment of 4 artists with disabilities: Sheppard, Jerron Herman, Laurel Lawson and Michael Maag.
This corporation “disrupts space, dismantles it generally and redefines beauty and virtuosity through avant-garde performances and discourses,” according to its mission.
Sarah Bahr and Katherine McMahan contributed to the investigation.
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