Watch more movies about disability and by disabled creators (ReelAbilities Film Festival is a a great place to start). If you interact with disabled people in your lives, ask them important and complex questions about their internal worlds, not just their physical conditions. And if you don't interact with disabled people, you should.

Check out NYAAF to support abortion access in NY, and go to vote.org to check your registration and make sure you have everything you need to vote by November 3rd.

Broadly my film is how effort is sometimes more important than the result. Joaquin has been an absent father and here is his second opportunity to try again. Not that it absolves him from the past but showing up and trying again is one of the greatest tools we have in us. Also, don’t only buy from local business but get to know them. Learn their favorite songs. Join their community. Visit https://shopyourcity.cityofnewyork.us/ to find small businesses in NYC near you.

Recognize that Indigenous peoples have deep, enduring relationships with their land that long predate the colonial borders imposed just a few hundred years ago. Seek out and support Native stories, voices, and perspectives to better understand their histories, cultures, and connections to the land. You can start by reading IllumiNative's impact report on Native representation in media https://illuminative.org/