Diversity Video Library
Disability
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First Break
Publisher: Fan Light Production
Format: VHS
Runtime: 60 mins
Captions: No
Documents the impact of the "first break" of mental illness on three young people in their teens and early twenties, as well as the effects on their families.
Tell Them I'm a Mermaid
Publisher: Prop. of Disable Student Group
Format: VHS
Runtime: 23 mins
Captions: No
"The children in shopping centers always ask, 'What's wrong with your legs?' You know what I say to them? I tell them 'I'm a mermaid!'" Seven extraordinary women with physical disabilities relate their stories in this original musical-theater "documentary."
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