Being Heumann screenwriter Rebekah Taussig discusses telling disabled stories

Ruth Madeley and Siân Heder in “Being Heumann,” premiering November 13, 2026 on Apple TV. Kansas City writer Rebekah Taussig is no stranger to sharing her perspective with others. Her 2021 essay collection Sitting Pretty: The View from my Ordinary Resilient Disabled Body shared intimate, honest, witty observations from her life as a disabled person. She followed that book up with We Are the Scrappy Ones, a picture book, last year. Her Instagram account, sitting_pretty, boasts nearly 66,000 followers. Now, Taussig is adding a new accomplishment: Screenwriter. In her latest venture, Taussig collaborated with Oscar-winning writer-director Siân Heder (CODA) on the screenplay for Being Heumann. The film, adapted from disability rights activist Judy Heumann’s memoir of the same name, is a biopic of Heumann’s life and her role in the landmark San Francisco sit-in pressuring lawmakers to sign section 504 of the Rehabilitation Act of 1973, one of the first U.S.

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