Month: January 2013

  • Spotlight on Disability Film Festivals: Disability From Real to Reel

    Listen to this post: Film festivals! There are loads of large and small film festivals the world over. I’m particularly fond of Disability film festivals. This is not because I feel disability film needs to be segregated from all other film. But there are not a lot of venues where people are ready and willing…

  • Jeff Black’s art show

    Listen to this post: On February 5th, Beard’s Framing in Vancouver is having a reception for the opening of Jeff Black’s show. It’s a frame shop located at 11325 SE Mill Plain Blvd., Vancouver, Washington.  He’ll be showing a few new works of pen and ink line drawings of scenery. The art will be up…

  • Guest Blogger: Annie Laurie Harris memoir “It’s Easier to Dance”

    Listen to this post: I’m a non-fiction kind of gal. I really like biographies. And I’m not afraid to admit it: I love memoirs and autobiographies. So I’m very excited to be able to present today some very brief excerpts from the memoir by Annie Laurie Harris called “It’s Easier to Dance.” Annie has given…

  • Guest Blogger: Mike Burns

    Listen to this post: I met Mike Burns in 2001 working on Actual Lives Austin, which is “Central Texas’ own and only ensemble dedicated to crip theatre with attitude.” Here is Mike’s blog called “Adventures of a Superhero”: www.superhero333.tumblr.com. And here is a beautiful short film he made. In the film, you see the Actual…

  • Mixing Metaphors for humor

    Listen to this post: Some people refer to brain injury as an invisible injury or disability.  You  can’t see anyone’s brain in every day life, injured or not. You know what else is kind of invisible? Humor. I’ve always been silly, and as I age, my humor is getting more like it was when I…