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Replay: 'Crip Camp' co-directors on how a hippie-run camp inspired disability activism


Replay: ‘Crip Camp’ co-directors on how a hippie-run camp inspired disability activism
Crip Camp co-directors Nicole Newnham and Jim LeBrecht.
Photo courtesy of Netflix
In the early 1970s, a then 15-year-old Jim LeBrecht spent a summer at Camp Jened in upstate New York. For LeBrecht, who was born with spina bifida and uses a wheelchair, the experience at a hippie-run camp for disabled kids changed his life. And he wasn’t the only one. 
LeBrecht is co-director of the Netflix documentary “Crip Camp: A Disability Revolution,” which is now Oscar-nominated for Best Documentary Feature. 
“Crip Camp” offers archival footage showing something that was rare for disabled teenagers: the freedom just to be kids. There was swimming, singing, and hooking up.  ....

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