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ELAC Library Book Displays

July: Celebrating Disability Pride Month

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Disability Reframed - Exploring the State of Disability in America (2024)

A broad look at the unique challenges facing those Americans through a series of in-depth reports on disability care, fights for wage equality, and how climate change disproportionately impacts disabled populations.

 

 

My Disability Roadmap (2022)

In Emmy-winning op-doc "My Disability Roadmap," co-directed by Samuel and his father Dan Habib, Samuel seeks out guidance from America’s most rebellious disability activists. He wants to learn how they built full adult lives as a road map for himself and others. “No one tells you how to be an adult, let alone an adult with a disability,” he says. “But there are badass people with disabilities who figured it out. Maybe they could be my mentors.”

 

 

Listen to the Universe (2024)

NASA is famous for beautiful space images, but did you know you can listen to them? Go behind the scenes with the team that creates “sonifications,” translations of data into sound, and learn how meaningful they are to people who are blind or low-vision.

 

 

Def Jam (2011)

Deaf Jam is the story of deaf teen Aneta Brodski's bold journey into the spoken word slam scene. In a wondrous twist, Aneta, an Israeli immigrant living in the Queens section of New York City, eventually meets Tahani, a hearing Palestinian slam poet. The two women embark on a collaboration/performance duet creating a new form of slam poetry that speaks to both the hearing and the Deaf.

 

 

 

Def Jam (2011)

Deaf Jam is the story of deaf teen Aneta Brodski's bold journey into the spoken word slam scene. In a wondrous twist, Aneta, an Israeli immigrant living in the Queens section of New York City, eventually meets Tahani, a hearing Palestinian slam poet. The two women embark on a collaboration/performance duet creating a new form of slam poetry that speaks to both the hearing and the Deaf.