Year
1995
Distributor
Brace Yourselves Productions
UPC
9781572952300
Country
US
Video Standard
NTSC
ISBN
9781572952300; 157295230X
OCLC
38048436
Language
ENG
(Producer) This edgy, raw video documentary explores the politics of disability through theh performances, debates and late-night conversations of activists at a recent national conference on Disability and the Arts. Including interviews with well-known disability rights advocates such as Cheryl Marie Wade, Mary Duffy, and Hadan Hahn, this video conveys the intensity, variety and vitality of disability culture today. Contains strong language and nudity. Grand Prize, Rehabilitation International World Congress

"A documentary about a national disability arts community that explores disability as the experience of a politically disenfranchised constitutency ... Consists of interviews and clips of performance pieces from a variety of artistic formats including: performance art, fiction, poetry, stand-up comedy, drama, personal anecdotes and scholarly research ... Pursues a definition of [a culture of disability] through questions of architectural inaccessibility, political activism, mainstream representations of disability in literature, film, art and television, and in a narrative of shared struggle to gain access to influential cultural institutions."--Guide sheet
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