The Stakes:

The disability community is under threat from anti-diversity executive orders, proposed cuts to Medicaid and other vital supports, and dangerous rhetoric from political leaders who unabashedly devalue disabled lives as disposable.

While the disability community feels these harms first and most acutely, disability issues like healthcare, wealth inequality, and social isolation affect everyone. Most people in their lifetime will end up needing the same resources and supports that disabled folks already rely on.

The impact campaign for LIFE AFTER will help unravel the threads of ableism and injustice woven into our institutions, culture, and logic. This is long-term work that requires profound social transformation – alongside major shifts in political will and resource investment. A crucial first step is to reframe society’s perception of disability to be understood as a natural part of the human experience, and one that everyone should be attuned to as it relates to our healthcare systems, legal frameworks, policies, and other social systems. 

Our impact campaign goals:

  1. Raise awareness about the ways that disabled people are fundamentally devalued and often die prematurely, due to ableism in medical settings, lack of government support, and society’s widespread fear of disability.

  2. Support ongoing advocacy that furthers the disability community’s means to live and thrive – and inspire new advocates to join and grow these efforts. This involves advancing policies, social support, and public discourse that take the needs, aspirations, and dignity of disabled people into account, focusing on affordable, universal healthcare, home- and community-based services, and disability supports.

  3. Foster connection, community and conversation among disabled people. In addition to pushing for policy and culture change, we hope the film can offer people with disabilities a chance to connect with each other and discuss topics that may be considered taboo, or have been actively silenced.

what you can do:

1) Tell Your Elected Officials “No Cuts to Our Healthcare!”

An estimated 51,000 people will die every year because of the healthcare cuts in the budget bill. The cuts to Medicaid and Medicare aren’t about saving money—they’re about shifting resources away from families and caregivers to fund tax breaks for the ultra-wealthy.



2) Support movement organizations. The clearest path to shift the systemic issues is to help the disability justice movement build power by following and supporting their work.

Caring Across Generations works to build real, helpful, thoughtful care systems. They transform cultural norms and narratives about aging, disability and care; win policy change at every level; and unite a powerful coalition across the millions of us who are touched by care. @caringacrossgen

DREDF advances the civil and human rights of people with disabilities through legal advocacy, training, education, and public policy and legislative development. @dredf1979

The American Association of People with Disabilities fights for the civil rights, economic and political power of 71 million+ disabled Americans. @aapdofficial

3) Host a screening of LIFE AFTER for your community.
We especially want to bring the film to:

  • Medical students, healthcare professionals, therapists

  • Bioethicists, legal students, lawyers

  • Human rights advocates

  • Policy makers and legislators

  • Faith groups

  • Journalists and media professionals

  • Progressive audiences who may support both disability justice and assisted dying, but haven’t yet considered the friction of these two issues

Our current coalition of partners includes: Patients Rights Action Fund, Crip News, FWD-Doc, Disability Justice Network of Ontario, New Disabled South, Caring Across Generations, DREDF, Disability Culture Lab, Access Living, Center for Constitutional Rights, NYC Disability Rights Archive, The Squeaky Wheel, NYU Center for Disability Studies, Brooklyn Center for Independence, Judson Memorial Church, Inevitable Influence.