Judy Heumann

Now, speaking of the heavyweight of decades, let's look at our next text, which deals with real, historical time and the slow, grinding nature of systemic change.

This is Being Human, an unrepentant memoir of a disability rights activist by Judith Heumann.

The Apple TV Plus film adaptation drops November 13th.

Before we dive into the structure of this particular adaptation, I think it's important to frame how we are approaching this text.

Absolutely.

Our goal here is simply to explore how Judith Heumann's personal memoir structured these historical events on the page, and the immense structural challenge Apple TV faces in adapting those specific written accounts into a traditional Hollywood runtime.

We are looking strictly at the mechanics of biographical storytelling, completely regardless of any political viewpoints.

With that lens in place, let's look at the incredible scope of the life story presented in the memoir.

This is a book series.

The Unrepentant Memoir of a Disability Rights Activist by Judith Heumann.

And that is going to hit theaters.

This is a biographical film following the disability rights activist Judith Heumann and her fight against discrimination.

On November 11th on Prime Video, we have the season three of Lord of the Rings, The Rings of Power, which of course is another J.R.R. Tolkien lore episode.

November 11th, we have season two of Rivals, part two.

And I think that also stems from there not being enough education and enough space to talk about disability when we're younger.

I don't remember talking about disability or ableism or the ADA or Judy Heumann or anyone that's important to our community when we were younger.

You know, I feel like we talked a lot about sexism and racism and all the other isms in high school and middle school.

But I do not remember at all ableism coming up.

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I think for me, and I know this is gonna seem like such a cliche answer because being human is coming out, but over time, really getting to appreciate Judy Heumann's work and the badass that she is, I've really grown to sort of look up to her and her legacy that she's left and everything that she's done with the formation of the ADA and how she fought so hard for her rights it at a time where things were so uncertain and so I think really diving into disability history as I've gotten older and as I've sort of come into my own understanding of my own disability and sort of diving into that I mean it wasn't like I watched Crip Camp like maybe like a year or two ago like it wasn't even that long ago so I've kind of just been diving into I love that.

You know, really appreciating the history and all the leaders that have sort of made that impact and that change.

um well saccharine is good though we got a couple here uh we'll just do them in alphabetical order uh from from the oscar well she's not an oscar-winning director from the director of the oscar-winning coda We have another film that's going to be playing in theaters for one week, so it gets that qualifying before it rushes away to Apple on the 20th or the 13th.

And that would be Being Human, which is a pun title because it is a biopic of the disability rights activist Judy Heumann.

incredibly important person

i mean i'm not disputing judy human's value as a human i am

It was

great.

And it wasn't just about Judy Heumann.

It was about the entire movement.