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Nothing About Us Without Us Virtual Film Festival
April 24, 2025 @ 10:00 am - 4:00 pm
All films presented feature a disability theme and reflect the values of the Independent Living Movement. The festival will conclude Thursday afternoon with a conversation on the films shown. Sign up for as many events as you like. All events are free and open to the public.
Register online at https://bit.ly/25dnff or by contacting Eliot Carter (see contact info below)
Thursday’s Theme: Resilience
- Love After War: Saving Love, Saving Lives 10:00 AM to 12:00 PM
- Love After War delves deep into the intimate lives of injured veterans and their romantic partners. It is a story of coming home and sexual healing. The accounts illustrate how each faces the challenges of disability and musters up the courage beyond what was needed for war to restore connection.
- Defiant Lives 1:00 to 3:00 PM
- Defiant Lives introduces the world to the most impressive activists you’ve never heard of and tells the story of the rise and fight of the disability rights movement in the United States, Britain and Australia.
- Content note: Offensive language, institutional abuse and neglect, and violence toward people with disabilities
- Film Festival Wrap-Up Discussion 3:00 to 4:00 PM
- A group-led discussion about the films we have watched over the past two days and how people with disabilities use the arts and creativity to affect social change.
This event is a collaboration of Disability Network Southwest Michigan and Disability Network Washtenaw Monroe Livingston.
Flyer: Film Festival Flyer 2025
