Month: June 2017

  • Free Our People Film Contest and Festival

    Listen to this post: Are you in Rochester, NY? If you are, can I come and see you? Because I’m thrilled to say that I’ll be there August 7th for the Free Our People Film Festival put on by Center for Disability Rights in New York State. There’s kind of two ways I think about…

  • The International #FacesofDisability Project: a global video initiative

    Listen to this post:  If you know me well, you know I’m a leftist more than a liberal. I would much rather our current racist, classist systems be smashed up and turned into compost. To me, that’s better than continuing with the never-ending cycle of stop-gap measures to try to fix a “broken system.” Our…

  • National Coalition for Latinxs with Disabilities 2nd Annual Conference

    Listen to this post:  In just a couple weeks is an amazing looking conference in Berkeley called Tearing Down Walls, Building Bridges: The Disabled Latinx Movement. It’s put on by the National Coalition for Latinxs with Disabilities (CNLD) and Disability Rights Education & Defense Fund (DREDF). There will be a wide range of presentations from scholars,…