Month: February 2018

  • Film screening at the OHSU Brain Institute

    Listen to this post: What better way to honor National Brain Injury Awareness Month than by showing Who Am I To Stop It, I ask you. How about showing that film for free sponsored by the Brain Institute at OHSU? I’ll take it! A few years back, I screened a film that had absolutely nothing…

  • ReelAbilities Portland is back!

    Listen to this post: Hopefully, all you Portland-area people got to come to some or all of the ReelAbilities screenings Disability Art and Culture Project did two years ago. DACP is back at it with a whole new line-up of films. And they’re ​showcasing local short films again. Local filmmakers, this is your chance to highlight some…

  • Drunk History and the 504 sit-in for disability rights

    Listen to this post: I admit it: I’ve never watched Drunk History on Comedy Central before. Not being a drinker myself, I wasn’t sure what the appeal might be for me. When I found out they were covering the monumental 504 sit-in with Ali Stroker, Zach Anner, and AJ Murray (to name only a few),…

  • Disability Art and Culture Project: Get REAL

    Listen to this post: Even more exciting work coming from Portland’s disability art and social justice organization, DACP. “GET REAL”: An interactive work-in-progress forum theater about employment and economic justice. Join Disability Art and Culture Project to learn about economic justice for people with disabilities in Oregon through forum theater, and cultivate REAL change for our…

  • Rooted in Rights and Disability Visibility Project’s #MeToo Stories

    Listen to this post: Content Notice: This post is specifically about sexual violence against disabled people, but it won’t contain graphic information. Read or not, according to your needs. First off, can I just say that if you come across Rooted in Rights‘ name on anything, it’s going to be stellar? OK, I said it.…