Netflix has released the trailer for their upcoming documentary Crip Camp: A Disability Revolution. The film follows a group of disabled teen campers in the 1960s who grew up to take on the system and fight for civil rights on the behalf of disabled Americans. I caught the film at Sundance earlier this year and thought it was a shoo-in for one of the best documentaries of 2020. It's an incredibly inspirational story not just because of the subjects who have their own disabilities, but because of how the movie endeavors to show its subjects in all their …

If you’ve ridden public transportation recently, or gone to a public school, or maybe even visited a mall, you’ve no doubt noticed elevators, ramps, and other modes of access to those with disabilities. You may also have taken these inclusions for granted. Aren’t they just always there? Someone probably just decided it was a good idea to make it easier for the disabled to ride the subway or go to school, right? Definitely not. Wide accessibility for the disabled was a hard-fought battle that took decades, and the new Netflix documentary Crip Camp shines a light …