Fire Through Dry Grass Delve Deeper
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Film summary
Wearing snapback caps and Air Jordans, the Reality Poets aren’t typical nursing home residents. In Fire Through Dry Grass, these young, Black and brown disabled artists document their lives on lockdown during Covid, their rhymes underscoring the danger and imprisonment they feel. In the face of institutional neglect, they refuse to be abused, confined, and erased. Co-produced with ITVS.
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Introduction
This list of fiction and nonfiction books, compiled by Veronda Pitchford, Assistant director of Califa Group, provides a range of perspectives on the issues raised by the POV documentary Fire Through Dry Grass.
Wearing snapback caps and Air Jordans, the Reality Poets aren’t typical nursing home residents. In Fire Through Dry Grass, these young, Black and brown disabled artists document their lives on lockdown during Covid, their rhymes underscoring the danger and imprisonment they feel. In the face of institutional neglect, they refuse to be abused, confined, and erased.
Murders That Matter Delve Deeper 
Fire Through Dry Grass Discussion Guide 
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