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Archived News: July 2021 and Older

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Superfest Disability Film Festival

• "Superfest Disability Film festival: Going Above & Beyond", Reid My Mind, September 2, 2020

• "Superfest film shorts, panel examine increasing visibility of disability in mainstream film", Daily Cal, July 24, 2020

• "Documentary film ‘Fixed’ panel discussion asks why some bodies are considered ‘disposable’", Daily Cal, June 29, 2020

• "An interview with two Superfest Jurors about Superfest Disability Film Festival", Disability Visibility Podcast, May 3, 2020

• "Superfest Film Festival Gives Disability Community a Voice", Wheel: Life, September 24, 2019

• "Interview with Superfest Coordinator Emily Smith Beitiks", Fest Reviews, March 23, 2016

• "Films as far away as Kazakstan premiered at Superfest", Digital Journal, October 29, 2015

• "Seeing in the Dark: Film festival celebrates disability", The Bay Area Reporter, October 20, 2016

Samples of Press Quoting Longmore Institute Directors

• "‘Disability Drives Innovation’", NY Times, October 14, 2021

• "Bay Area Historic Movie Theaters Move Towards Greater Accessibility", KQED, July 2, 2021

• "Did Helen Keller Really “Do All That”?", Slate Magazine, February 26, 2021

• "Influential voices in disabled community share interesting insights into life after lockdown", Thiis, August 27, 2020

• "What Ignoring the Disability Community Costs Hollywood", The Cut Away, October 15, 2019

• "People with disabilities are already seen as powerless, and this [Kylie Jenner's Wheelchair Photoshoot] just reinforces that," CNN, December 2, 2015

• "ABC7 SPECIAL: PROFILES OF EXCELLENCE" ABC7, Dcember 9, 2014

• "Part of the challenge is overcoming the way most people think about medical devices, like crutches, that are deeply stigmatize",Tribe Live, July 5, 2015,

• "How Technology is Transforming Prosthetics and the Lives of Amputees", KQED, January 23, 2015

Patient No More

• "Fighting for 504", HISTORY This Week, April 26, 2021

• "Lower Lake Schoolhouse Museum hosts ‘Patient No More’ exhibit on fight for disability rights", Lake County News, August, 6, 2019

• "Patient No More: Celebrating the Disabled Rights Movement's Historic 1977 Sit-in," The Berkeley Daily Planet, October 30, 2015

• "94.1 KPFA plays back the voices, chants and music that kept the protestors during the 504 Occupation of the U.S. Federal Building in San Francisco in 1977." KPFA, September 4, 2015

• "Black history of 504 sit-in for disability rights" San Francisco Bay View, Febuary 11, 2014

Archived Events: 2021 and Older