WHEELCHAIR USERS TELL THEIR STORIES
IN ACCLAIMED DOCUMENTARIES
Dani Izzie knew there was an audience for her story and genuinely believed others could benefit from seeing it documented on film, but she also knew how easily it all could go wrong.
“I have a sensational story, like the greatest clickbait: ‘Quadriplegic woman gives birth to twins,’” she says. “But I don’t want it to be sensationalistic.
I want
to combat the bias against women with disabilities becoming parents. … We have
to break through this ableism.”
Izzie, a C5-6 quadriplegic, had been approached by a casting director of
reality TV shows and offered a handsome sum of money to document her pregnancy
in exchange for relinquishing the exclusive rights.
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