Carissa Wiens
On voting day for Canadaâs federal election in the fall of 2015, someone told me to vote Liberal because âJustinâs hot.â I was taken by surprise because, up until that point, it had never occurred to me that firstly, Trudeau was quite pretty, and secondly, that a political leader could be attractive; I thought those spaces were only reserved for
The Bachelor contestants and James Bond movies. After watching Bush and Harper be state leaders for many of my early formative years, the idea of a beautiful person in charge seemed very foreign. But as Iâm constantly at home, watching the news more, and scrolling through Obamaâs Instagram nonstop, Iâve now come to terms that yes, a political leader who is much older than myself can certainly be very attractive.Â
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15th Mar 2021
Who knew that down the road from Woodstock, a revolution blossomed in a ramshackle summer camp for teenagers with disabilities, transforming their lives and igniting a landmark movement? The extraordinary Netflix, now Oscar-nominated documentary Crip Camp: A Disability Revolution is the untold story finally told for the world to see.
Jennifer McShane speaks to the film’s co-director Nicole Newnham about its reverence and the push to continue breaking stereotypical barriers down for those with disabilities – in life and on screen
Co-directed by Emmy Award winner Nicole Newnham and film mixer and former camper Jim LeBrecht, we’re taken back in time to the early 1970s, where teenagers with disabilities faced a future shaped by isolation, discrimination and institutionalisation. Camp Jened, a ramshackle camp “for the handicapped”, exploded those confines. Jened was free from restraint; their freewheeling Utopia, a place with summertime sports, smokin