OUR ORIGIN
OUR ORIGIN
Inspired by teenagers in the 1970s with disabilities who faced a future shaped by isolation, discrimination, and institutionalization. Camp Jened, a ramshackle camp “for the handicapped” (a term no longer used) in the Catskills, exploded those confines. Today, Kidd Camp Inc. a 501(c)3 non-profit organization continues to amplify additional narratives in the disability rights and disability justice in their communities – with a particular emphasis on stories surrounding people of all color and other intersectional marginalized communities. We stand by their creed of "nothing about us, without us '. For too long, too many were excluded and are still being excluded and it is time to broaden the number of voices and share the mic.
Inspired by teenagers in the 1970s with disabilities who faced a future shaped by isolation, discrimination, and institutionalization. Camp Jened, a ramshackle camp “for the handicapped” (a term no longer used) in the Catskills, exploded those confines. Today, Kidd Camp Inc. a 501(c)3 non-profit organization continues to amplify additional narratives in the disability rights and disability justice in their communities – with a particular emphasis on stories surrounding people of all color and other intersectional marginalized communities. We stand by their creed of "nothing about us, without us '. For too long, too many were excluded and are still being excluded and it is time to broaden the number of voices and share the mic.
