“Resilience Revealed” is an Ann Arbor-made documentary about the rights, struggles and progress made by people living with disabilities. It will be making its premier at the downtown branch of the Ann Arbor District Library on July 27.
The man-made parts of the world were collectively designed with a series of presumptions, and without really thinking about what happens to people living with a disability. Nobody did this on purpose and the assumption that everyone can do certain things – walk up four flights of stairs, carry things, see – forms an unintentional degree of discrimination against those who can’t.
However, this is changing gradually over the decades with laws and adaptations to building and vehicle designs. The fact that “ableism” is part of the common vocabulary speaks to progress, but not a complete cultural transition. And Ann Arbor has played a larger role than you might think in helping make that cultural, legal and infrastructural change happen…