Disability Pride Month

A film about love, sexuality, and the human bond within the disabled community. A journey into the lives of 17 very unique people; some with disabilities and the partners who love them, others struggling to get by in a world that seems to often overlook them. In exploring the confidence and unconditional love that these humans have for themselves and each other, you may begin to question your own notions on life, love, and what it means to really feel in every sense of the word.

Sins Invalid witnesses a performance project that incubates and celebrates artists with disabilities, centralizing artists of color and queer and gender-variant artists. Since 2006, its performances have explored themes of sexuality, beauty, and the disabled body, impacting thousands through live performance. Sins Invalid is as an entryway into the absurdly taboo topic of sexuality and disability, manifesting a new paradigm of disability justice.

Loree Erickson's short film Want explores issues surrounding sex, sexuality and disability, as well as the difficulties in navigating the world at large. [...] Contrasting discriminatory attitudes towards the sex lives of disabled people, Want opens with explicit scenes of Erickson and her partners, but the film also includes more mundane activities like navigating supermarkets and public transit. Shows sexuality as another aspect of being able to live a full life, not something that should be relegated to a minor concern (if it is included within a full understanding of disabled people's lives at all).

What does it mean to be disabled and desirable? In Picture This, a documentary by Jari Osborne, we meet Andrew Gurza, a self-described "queer cripple" who has made it his mission to make sex and disability part of the public discourse.

A New York Times Critics' Pick, NOTES ON BLINDNESS is a poetic account of loss, rebirth and renewal, and the discovery of 'a world beyond sight.' In 1983, after decades of steady deterioration, renowned professor and writer John Hull became totally blind. To help him make sense of the upheaval in his life, he began keeping a diary on audiocassette. Over three years he recorded over sixteen hours of material, a unique testimony of loss, rebirth and renewal, excavating the interior world of blindness.

Art, activism and disability are the starting point for what unfolds as a funny and intimate portrait of five surprising individuals. [...] The film tracks this motley gang of five while they create and then present their self-representations. As we get to know each of these remarkable people driven by a passion for art and transformation, the everyday complexities and unexpected richness of life with a disability are exposed.