The first time I remember writing about my specific experiences as a disabled person was in my senior year of high school. In a response to an assignment, I wrote an essay titled “To Ride a Bike,” in which I described the moment in my childhood when I first felt excluded from my peers. In the essay, I explained how I was born congenitally disabled, a “quadruple amputee,” in medical terms, and yet I didn’t feel any different than my non-disabled family and friends. Contrary

My Beautiful Broken Brain, 2016 (Sophie Robinson and Lotje Sodderland, dirs.) is a powerful and visually stunning documentary film about a 34-year-old British woman, Lotje Sodderland, who has a stroke. The camera angles and slowed-down film footage capture her embodied experience of having a spontaneous blood clot in her brain. Additional scenes in the film, some of which are sped up and some which appear like footage from a cell phone, articulate Lotje’s subsequent memory