Sex & Accessibility

A short film I wrote is about to shoot in London.

After four years of incremental progress, cameras will roll on a very special script.

I want to take a moment to celebrate a massive milestone in the story of a story. It will have a different title. But the themes that sum it up for me are:

It’s a rom com. It stars a woman who’s disabled, and a man who’s not. They wake up from a one-night stand and discover their condom broke. That sets them off on a mission to the chemist for an emergency contraceptive pill. It’s an eye-opening odyssey for him. Her disabilities magically transform everyday people and places into major obstacles. But there’s something truly special about the way she deals with it all. He’s smitten. By the end of it, she starts to see something in him, too.

This film stars Jillian Mercardo.

Jillian is a model and actor based in New York and LA. She’s possibly the world’s most photographed disabled woman. I tracked her down through the magic of Instagram, when she only had 130K followers… She now has nearly a quarter of…