Month: February 2014

  • Lethan Candlish and Who Am I Again? performance and TBI Voices

    Listen to this post:  If there’s one thing I love, it’s stories, performance and talking about brain injury honestly. And I want to introduce you to some folks who do roll all three into one. Lethan Candlish is a masterful storyteller and artist. He performed a very moving piece called “Who Am I, Again?” a…

  • Spotlight on Disability Film Festivals: BOSIFEST 2014

    Listen to this post:  BOSIFEST International Film Festival for and by persons with disabilities is the only one of its kind in Southeast Europe and is organized by the Hendi Center Koloseum in Serbia. This is the festival’s fifth year. They have a competitive and non-competitive part to the festival. So far BOSIFEST has screened…

  • From Brain Injury Awareness to Pride

    Listen to this post:  I wrote here recently that we need to move on from Awareness Months and have Appreciation Months (or years or lifetimes). Lots of times people describe my films as “raising awareness.” I would definitely say that is not my goal. Really, I want to show people with brain injury as complete humans, as…

  • Realistic Hope after brain injury

    Listen to this post:  Realistic Hope. There’s a phrase I can really get behind! A lot of people say we have to stay positive in order to get better. People suggest we purge negative people from our lives so we can focus on healing, wellness, forward progress. Hmm. That’s a little too strict and self-centered…

  • Spotlight on Disability Film Festivals: Superfest International Disability Film Festival taking submissions now

    Listen to this post:  Back in June, I wrote on this blog about a really awesome sounding awards program called The Dissies. The idea was to come up with the worst ever representations and portrayals of disability (and disabled people) in the movies. Then, you’d diss them. I love the play on words. The awards…