The stakes:
The disability community is under accelerated danger from anti-diversity executive orders; threatened cuts to Medicaid and other vital supports and healthcare services; and overall – a bold, brazen, full-throated disregard for disabled lives as disposable.
While the disability community feels these harms first and most acutely, disability issues like healthcare, wealth inequality, and isolation affect everyone. Most people in their lifetime will end up relying on the resources and supports that disabled folks already rely on.
Our impact campaign is rooted in the following:
Assisted suicide legislation poses dangers to disabled people. It’s unacceptable to give disabled people the means to die, before supporting them with the means to live and thrive.
Ableism in the medical field needs to be addressed, so that healthcare professionals don’t wrongfully devalue disabled peoples’ “quality of life” and push them towards premature death.
People with disabilities need strong federal laws, policies, and programs that take their needs and aspirations into account.
Our goals:
Raise awareness about the ways that disabled people are fundamentally devalued and die prematurely
(due to ableism in medical settings, lack of government supports, and society’s widespread fear of disability).Advocate for the disability community to have the means to live and thrive, through policies that take their needs and aspirations into account (including affordable, universal healthcare, home- and community-based services, and disability supports.
The campaign:
We’re partnering with disability rights and disability justice groups, and bringing the film to our target audiences including:
Medical professionals and healthcare workers
Disabled folks, and those in proximity to them
Policymakers at the local, state, and federal levels
Human rights organizations
Partner with us
LIFE AFTER is partnering with aligned organizations to center and uplift the disability community worldwide. If you are affiliated with an organization and would like to make the film available to your membership or network, we encourage you to join our coalition of partners. Partnerships may include:
Hosting screenings, curated panels, and Q&A’s with the team
Making the film available to your networks
Collaborating on events
Sharing revenue from direct rentals by your members or constituents
Helping to shape our change efforts by providing feedback
CURRENT PARTNER ORGANIZATIONS INCLUDE:
More to be announced
We are committed to hosting events that affirm and uplift disabled folks, start conversations about ableism, and spur action and response to public policy.
Unraveling the threads of ableism and injustice woven into our institutions, culture, and logic requires long-term work and social transformation. A crucial first step is to reframe society’s perception of disability to be understood as a natural part of the human experience.
Alongside advocating for systemic change, the film’s impact campaign will contribute to strengthening community-based spaces and systems of mutual aid and collective care. Our impact campaign centers the leadership of disabled BIPOC people, who remain thought-leaders within today’s disability activist framework, in creating a liberated future.
