cripple punk

Located at the intersection of disability and queerness, this documentary enriches, implicates, and breaks open the conversation around sexual life in the disabled community. This film does not shy away from the complexities and challenges of queer life, but rather embraces them and in doing so, illuminates how they impact one another and bring new dimensionality to the position of the body within them. Resisting a normative lens, this filmmaker uses the observational power of the camera to document the raw sexuality, fantasies, and erotic expressions of a wide array of subjects with rare candor and vulnerability. Embodied sexual explorations are balanced against interviews that in their frankness and insightfulness criticize and deepen the lacking conversation around this intersection in the wider discourse.

Attorney Sylvia Castro attempts to obtain Social Security disability benefits for three clients who are not always cooperative. She takes up boxing for courage in dealing with a particularly difficult judge.

Actors Ruth Madeley and Ruben Reuter, both disabled, examine the complex ethical issues around terminating a pregnancy after 24 weeks where there may be a chance of certain impairments or conditions.

Down the road from Woodstock in the early 1970s, a revolution blossomed in a ramshackle summer camp for disabled teenagers, transforming their young lives and igniting a landmark movement.

Samuel Habib strives for an independent life, but as a young man with a disability and a 500-pound wheelchair, navigating the world is a complex undertaking. Samuel is determined and armed with advice and encouragement from some bad-ass people with disabilities. He's ready to set himself on the road to his best life.

2014 film directed by Shonali Bose

2018 film directed by Neil Burger

A true story of two men who should never have met – a quadriplegic aristocrat who was injured in a paragliding accident and a young man from the projects.

Having suffered a tragedy, Ben becomes a caregiver to earn money. His first client, Trevor, is a hilarious 18-year-old with muscular dystrophy. One paralyzed emotionally, one paralyzed physically, Ben and Trevor hit the road on a trip into the western states. The folks they collect along the way will help them test their skills for surviving outside their calculated existence. Together, they come to understand the importance of hope and the necessity of true friendship.