Month: February 2016

  • Disability Art and Culture Project 10 year anniversary party

    Listen to this post:  If I love anything, it’s cross disability art and activism. OK, cats too, and also I have a thing for chocolate. But when I’m away from both cats and chocolate, you can pretty much guarantee I’m doing some kind of disability-related art or social justice work. Cross disability is my favorite because…

  • Music after brain injury by any means

    Listen to this post:  Some people describe the brain as a computer: it takes in info, processes it, and spits out things like emotions, movement, language, or music. This isn’t the most thorough explanation of the three-pound blob, but it’s not untrue. So imagine what happens when you hook up the information processor in your head…

  • Robin Coste Lewis: From brain injury to poetry

    Listen to this post:  While Robin Coste Lewis’s new, award-winning book of poetry, “Voyage of the Sable Venus” is not about brain injury, it came about from brain injury. After her own injury, she became a poet. And now we have this outrageously powerful, lyrical début book that we probably wouldn’t have if she’d continued…