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26 Apr, 4 tweets, 2 min read
For the first time, the Oscars stage has a ramp. Let’s go #cripcamp
Looking fabulous!
#disabilityhistory y’all!
For years, my wife used a wheelchair. She also happens to be a filmmaker. So, I confess, I hoped this year we’d see disability history in the making & a winner taking the stage by ramp. I’m😔but #CripCamp remains a historymaking film & the fight it chronicles is as vital as ever.

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”Krasnik’s mayor said he worried that unless his town’s “free of L.G.B.T.” status is rescinded, he has little chance of securing foreign funds to finance electric buses and youth programs, which he said are important because young people keep leaving.”
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New study finds “in cities where bike infrastructure was added, cycling had increased up to 48 percent more than in cities that did not add bike lanes.” nytimes.com/2021/04/01/cli…
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“We showed strength and courage and power and commitment,” Ms. Cone said, “that we the shut-ins, or the shut-outs, we the hidden, supposedly the frail and the weak, that we can wage a struggle at the highest level of government and win.” nytimes.com/2021/03/26/obi…
She helped mobilize ”a coalition of supporters among other activist groups, including the Black Panthers, who supplied hot meals to the protesters, and machinist union workers, who rented trucks to transport them when they took the fight to Washington” nytimes.com/2021/03/26/obi…
“Kitty Cone believed in the depth of her soul that the broader you build something, the better chance you have of success.” That vision & activism ultimately led to the Americans with Disabilities Act. For more, see the superb, Oscar-nominated doc CripCamp netflix.com/title/81001496
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“Prior to 1990, virtually no Americans identified in public opinion surveys as non-religious. By the time we get to the year 2000, you’re talking about 14% to 15% of the population. That is a huge change.” religionnews.com/2021/03/12/all…
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