OIFN Book Club

Monday, May 10, 2021

Two book selections by Japanese poet/author Naoki Higashida:

• The Reason I Jump
• Fall Down 7 Times Get Up 8: A Young Man’s Voice from the Silence of Autism

We thought some people might more easily access a copy of one or the other from their libraries, etc., so we welcome you to choose or read both if you become intrigued.

Questions Change Everything in Community Engagement, TED Talk by Max Hardy:
https://www.ted.com/talks/max_hardy_questions_change_everything_in_community_engagement

Thoughts on actors with disabilities portraying people in movies and television who have a disability.

Below are links to some articles exploring this subject:

• Should non-disabled actors play disabled characters?
• Why Holiday Movies Should Be Inclusive of People With Disabilities
• Disabled TV Characters Played by Disabled Actors
• Why are so Many Disabled Roles Played by Non-Disabled Actors?
• Is it ever OK for non-disabled actors to play disabled roles?
• Disabled actors say they’re the ‘last civil rights movement’ in Hollywood

Trail of Light video clip from Karma Tube: https://www.karmatube.org/videos.php?id=8662

“Where Do We Stand?” by Beth Mount and John O’Brien
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TED Talk – Simon Sinek, How Great Leaders Inspire Action

Amy Herman’s Ted Talk, “A Lesson on Looking”

“What Makes a Good Life?”  – a TED Talk by Robert Waldinger, Director of the Harvard Study of Adult Development, psychoanalyst, Zen priest, and Clinical Professor of Psychiatry at Harvard Medical School.” 

 Discussion of the movie Radio along with the real-life story that inspired it (Sports Illustrated).

Guelph, ON

 Discussion of Precious Cargo by Greg Davidson

Guelph, ON