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2023 Including Disability Global Summit
Listen to this post: HopePunk: Persevering, Building Community, Chasing Hope Cool event announcement: Including Disability Global Summit! Online April 25-27, 2023 The theme for the 2023 Summit is a call for agitation: What can we do now so that the future is far better than the present for disabled people? This isn’t a conference focused…
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An Open Book Conversation with Rahnee Patrick and Grace Tsao: Year of the Tiger
Listen to this post: Please join me in supporting the Chicago Cultural Accessibility Consortium (CCAC). I love this organization. Their mission is to empower cultural spaces to become more accessible to visitors with disabilities. This December, CCAC presents An Open Book Conversation with Rahnee Patrick and Grace Tsao, who will be discussing Year of the Tiger,…
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36th Annual Superfest Disability Film Festival
Listen to this post: Celebrate! If there’s anything I regret around Superfest it’s that I don’t blog about how much I love the festival all year long. This year’s the 36th festival, and as always, it’s a great lineup of Deaf and disability films from nearly a dozen different countries representing some of the true…
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Audio Description in the Making at AIM Lab
Listen to this post: Audio Description is art. There. I said it! I’m in the camp of describers whose end goal is not legal compliance or the mythical, and frankly impossible, “accessible for everyone” status. The camp I’m in is interested in elevating an artwork by adding description. “Accessible” isn’t a very delightful sounding goal…
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Desire Path: Dreaming Access Art, a virtual but real event
Listen to this post: Desire Paths Have you noticed or been on a desire path before? They beg to be used and used again. That’s the heart of what they are and how they come to be paths at all. They’re defiant and efficient DIY marvels that happen anywhere they can. They oppose the urban…