Crip

In the opening scenes of Crip Camp, a documentary available on Netflix, school buses pull into the entrance of Jened, a summer camp in New York's Catskills. When the doors open, campers step into the sun,…

by Andrea van VugtWHICH mediaLast week at the 93rd Academy Awards, a film about an indescribable American revolution was screened around one of those gleaming gold statues. That movie was Crip Camp: A Disability Revolution, and if you…

By Andrea van Vugt Last week at the 93rd Academy Awards, a film about an indescribable American revolution was screened around one of those gleaming gold statues. That movie was Crip Camp: A Disability Revolution, and if you haven't seen…

When Judy Heumann - one of the main subjects of the Oscar-nominated documentary Crip Camp - was five years old in the early 1950s, her mother tried to enroll her for kindergarten in New York City. The staff took one look at Judy, who…

A still from Crip Camp, by Nicole Newnham and Jim LeBrecht. Photo: Steve HonigsbaumWhen James “Jim” LeBrecht was 15 years old, he picked up a video camera and pointed it at Camp Jened, a utopian summer camp in upstate New York for…

It's an unexpected sight: all kinds of children with all kinds of disabilities in summer camp have the time of their lives. The year was 1971. The location: Camp Jened in New York's Catskill Mountains.Jim Lebrecht, born with Spina Bifida,…

It's an unexpected sight: all kinds of children with all kinds of disabilities in summer camp have the time of their lives. The year was 1971. The location: Camp Jened in New York's Catskill Mountains. Jim Lebrecht, born with Spina Bifida,…

It's an unexpected sight: all kinds of children with all kinds of disabilities in summer camp have the time of their lives. The year was 1971. The location: Camp Jened in New York's Catskill Mountains.Jim Lebrecht, born with Spina Bifida,…

Jim LeBrecht was born with spina bifida, a congenital disability of the spinal cord that prevented him from using his legs. When he was 14 years old, he attended a summer camp in New York known as the "laid back, free-spirited camp…

"Crip Camp" directors Nicole Newnham and James Lebrecht Lebrecht came very close to reenacting scenes from Camp Jened when he remembered a hippie group visiting and filming camp during a crab outbreak when he was there…