[Image description: Soldiers lower to the ground, doing a training exercise in a green space in a park, framed by a u-shaped black border that makes the image look almost as if it’s on a stage.Beneath the image, a caption appears in the black space, “Or another way of saying it is, how these images are put to work.”]
An All-Around Feel Good asks what it means to be an audience, in the wake of disability access legislation that claims but often fails to prohibit discrimination against disabled workers and audiences. Tangling common sense representations of disability, labor, and national identity, this essay film questions the purported goodness of putting disabled people to work in underpaid contexts ranging from captioning and transcribing to fabricating textiles for the U.S. military.
