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Just for the Record…I Never Abandoned My Family
How do you handle it when you find out your family and friends have been told lies about you for the past several years?
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Wright State Motion Pictures Program – My School Isn’t Perfect but My Professors Want to Make a Difference
While I have dealt with blatant discrimination by my peers, in the film program at Wright State University, my professors have tried very hard to include me and work with me.
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With Determination Anything is Possible
A positive message about determination in the face of adversity.
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Suffering from Chronic Pain
A look at how having chronic pain has affected my life.
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The Cyclical Nature of Life and Death
RIP…you will be missed.
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Update on My Grandfather – Cutting the Freak out of the Family
This isn’t about anything I’ve done or even protecting Willie. Keeping my grandfather from me is pure selfishness and bigotry. The cruelty continues as Willie continues to hang on and I still am unable to talk to him.
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The Misleading Nature of Gender Stereotyping
Why I believe gender stereotyping only seeks to create problems. We are all unique. We are not defined by what we like, but rather who we are and how we feel. Let us rejoice in what people enjoy not castigate them for enjoying!
7 Min Read
Why David Esrati Thinks Blind People Shouldn’t Have Access at Gun Ranges
Garden Station is a community garden in Dayton, Ohio. I was invited to a Facebook group to Save Garden Station and some friends want me to work on a video about it because a great injustice is occurring there. The city of Dayton made an agreement to allow the space…
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In a Funk and Can’t Get Out
My birth family hates me. They hate me enough to make sure I’m on a list to be denied information about my grandfather and to be denied information on his whereabouts. They hate me enough to keep me from my Hospice room. They hate me so much they are willing to go against a dying man’s wishes of peace in his family and the right to see a grandchild he loves.
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The Evolution of Disability through the Eyes of a Filmmaker
I owe it to the disability rights advocates who have come before me. Without them, I could not be the filmmaker I am today. I most likely would not be a filmmaker at all.