Resources
Watching LIFE AFTER can be an emotionally intense experience. We've compiled some tips and resources to prioritize your mental health before, during, and after viewing the film.
Disability is seldom covered in the media, and is often negatively stereotyped and inappropriately represented. The National Center of Disability and Journalism developed this guide to help journalists cover and communicate about people with disabilities.
This guide accompanies the feature documentary LIFE AFTER to support facilitating a post-screening conversation about the themes in the film. This PDF is screen reader accessible.
Sins Invalid, a disability justice-based movement building and performance project, developed this framework. Think about how you might integrate it into your individual or organizational ethos.
Watch a recording of this Q&A between activist & writer Imani Barbarin and director Reid Davenport, with special guest Marissa Bode.
LIFE AFTER received a grant from Distribution Advocates’ Film-ADE Fund to collapse traditional release windows into a custom distribution strategy centering accessibility and impact. This case study was written by producer Colleen Cassingham on behalf of the film team, in hopes that sharing stories, and transparent data, of experimentation will help all film teams adapt new methodologies in audience-building for their own work.
DREDF: Primer on Assisted Suicide Laws
This brief issue primer includes national medical, disability rights, and other progressive organizations that oppose assisted suicide laws, key objections, articles, and resources. It is for anyone who wants to look deeper, beyond the simplistic mantras of choice and “right to die,” or religion.
Not Dead Yet: Disability Rights Toolkit for Advocacy Against Legalization of Assisted Suicide
This toolkit articulates why disability advocacy groups oppose assisted suicide and outlines ways to educate and organize disability opposition, meet with legislators, testify at hearings, work with the media, conduct direct actions, and build coalitions.
Patients Rights Action Fund:Resources
These resources share information on why assisted suicide legislation is dangerous for disabled people.
Read about AAPD’s work around key health issues for people with disabilities, including: the Affordable Care Act, assisted suicide, access to reproductive health, and law enforcement’s relationship to people with disabilities.
Caring Across Generations: Resource Library
Explore this resource library to find support for care & caregiving. It includes resources for care activism online, conversation guides, state-specific guides, reports, video explainers, and playbooks for changing the narrative around care in entertainment & Hollywood.
additional reading On Assisted Dying Laws
