"Unthinkable:" Mourning People with Disabilities Killed by Family/Caregivers
TRIGGER WARNING: This work described includes mention of the murders of people with disabilities.
The 13-minute video covers efforts to commemorate people with disabilities killed by family and caregivers. It is dedicated to two McCandless, Penn. brothers, Daniel Schlemmer, who was 6 when he died, and Luke Schlemmer, who was 3. They were drowned in 2014 by their mother, who thought they were autistic.
Law enforcement does not specifically track murders of people with disabilities. But the Washington, D.C.-based Autistic Self Advocacy Network (ASAN) collects news accounts of crimes that it calls “filicide” of people with all types of disabilities. ASAN’s research dating back to 1979 found what it deemed to be over 1,500 accounts of filicide worldwide.
“There's so many names on the list,” says Zoe Gross, ASAN’s director of advocacy. “It's staggering.”
ASAN and other advocacy organizations say that media coverage of these deaths are often sympathetic to the perpetrator, and that memorial vigils counter that by respectfully commemorating the deceased. “Unthinkable” includes interviews with Gross and Glenshaw, Penn.-based disability advocate Jay Shirley.
“Unthinkable” was produced largely by people with disabilities. All-Abilities Media is a fiscally-sponsored project of
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