I would urge everyone to watch Crip Camp on Netflix. It begins with a look into the world of Camp Jened, a summer camp which ran from 1951 to 1977 and provided a place for disabled young people to find inclusion, a sense of normalcy and a break from the stigma they experience in their daily lives. A quote that really stuck with me was that Camp Jened helped disabled people realise that they were not the problem, the problem was with the rest of the world. The conversations, acceptance and feeling of liberation in the camp became a springboard for a vital movement fighting to secure basic rights for disabled people in the United States. The documentary follows some of the Jened campers from 1971 as they campaign, protest and storm government buildings to fight for equality. 

I don’t like to attribute the word ‘inspiring’ to the struggles of others but this documentary really feels so. There’s no request for sympathy or pity behind it, just an incredible story of a group of people changing the world, from a perspective many may not have considered.