Julie Harrison and Harilyn Rousso People with disabilities constitute nearly twenty percent of the American population. Sexism and often racism compound discrimination based on disability. Designed to provide positive, realistic pictures of the lives of women with disabilities and the social, economic, and political issues they face, Positive Images focuses on three strong and articulate women. Offering crucial role models for women and girls with disabilities, this powerful film also locates disability as a women's issue of concern to us all by discussing education, employment and careers, sexuality, family life and parenting, and societal attitudes. National Educational Film and Video Festival, Gold Award.
Film is open-captioned.
Look for the Literacy Volunteers poster. Barbie worshipers, reinscribing familiar debates around self-image and socialization. We follow the main character from girlhood to chronic blonde-wannabe and experience the surreal world of being anything but a prescribed ideal beauty. She argues that the failure of the Green Revolution was due to the fact that women's knowledge of traditional seed varieties was ignored. Shiva is devoting her scientific knowledge to proving that local farming methods, which recognize diversity and complexity in their polycultures, are vital to the survival of the Indian ecosystem.