Press


Who Am I To Stop It  in the press and Cheryl’s other disability culture work

Access: a love story” is the opening episode for Season 8 of Qudsiya Naqui’s podcast, Down to the Struts. Cheryl joins wedding photographer Jasmine Oliver to talk with Qudsiya about access art, love, and making an accessible wedding photo album for Qudsiya and her husband Sean Collins.


Embodying Accessibility: Six Tips for Incorporating Access Into Your Filmmaking” by Set Hernandez. Filmmaker Set Hernandez discusses tips they learned and used along the way of creating an accessible film, unseen, with Cheryl and Thomas Reid as Accessibility Producers.


How You Can Make Your Art Accessible,” a TEDx Talk (Deer Park Women) by Alyscia Cunningham features demonstrations of captions and audio description by Cheryl. (The YouTube video of this talk has only auto-generated YouTube subtitles.)

Disabled People Transforming Media Culture for a More Inclusive World” by Beth Haller, First Edition was published in November 2023. The book has open access, so people can read it online or download it for free. Cheryl’s podcast, Pigeonhole, and documentary Who Am I To Stop It are mentioned.


Hear the Dance: Audio Description Comes of Age” by Siobahn Burke for the New York Times focuses on dance by blind and other disabled artists and includes a quotation and sample of Cheryl’s AD for Kinetic Light. Kinetic Light has made an enhanced transcript of the AD and sound design available.


Streaming Accessibility Features: A Time of Group Flow” by Anna Cox, a reflection on several educational film distributors’ accessibility practices, featuring interviews with Cheryl and several other New Day members.


“Breaking the Rules: Why We Need More Filmmakers With Disabilities,” a conversation with Reid Davenport on our collaborative, disability-informed audio description practice for VocalEye’s Describer Café.


“Disability in the Arts” for New Day Films’ Reframe & Refresh, moderated by Cheryl and featuring Nomy Lamm, Maria Palacios, Alex Locust, and Victor Ilyukhin.


Announcing the 2023 Rockwood Documentary Leaders Fellows. Cheryl is part of a dozen-person cohort of fellows within the social change documentary filmmaking field.


“Cheryl Green & Thomas Reid | POD Access” on Tim Villegas’s Think Inclusive podcast talking about our podcasting journeys, influencing each other’s work, and building the POD Access Project. Please note the transcript provided is auto-generated and not corrected, so it’s hard to follow.


“We’ll Earn Our Stripes With Alice Wong and Year of the Tiger, guest co-host on Peculiar Book Club with Dr. Brandy Schillace.


“Believe Disabled People: How the POD Access Initiative is Removing Barriers to Entry for Deaf and Disabled Podcasters” with Thomas Reid on the Off-Kilter podcast with Rebecca Vallas through The Century Foundation


“Audio Description” on the DisArt Podcast In A Flash with host Jessica Stokes, a conversation with Cheryl and Thomas Reid


Article in Oregon Arts Watch on Cheryl’s collaboration with Rick Hammond on audio description in Susannah Mars’ upcoming documentary, working title Mourning Has Broken.


Interview on Disability Justice on KBOO Community Radio with John Griffiths. Transcript and audio provided.


Access as an Ethic— Giving Dance Myriad Points of Entry” (originally appeared in The New York Times): Interview with Kinetic Light on their approach to accessibility, namely Audio Description.


Podcasting Builds Disability Culture” on BMJ Medical Humanities blog about the POD Access Deaf and disabled podcaster hub Cheryl and Thomas Reid are building with funding from Disability Visibility Project.


Flipping the Script on Audio Description: In the Making“: Cheryl talks to Thomas on Reid My Mind Radio, and he’s joined by Arseli Dokumaci and Salima Punjani talking about the Audio Description in the Making project.


Audio Description in the Making” online exhibition at Concordia University’s AIM Lab based on a workshop co-facilitated by Thomas Reid and Cheryl.


Desire Path: Dreaming Access Art: Cheryl was a Conversation Contributor, access consultant, and captioner for The Curiosity Paradox’s live virtual event.


Disabled Podcasters Unite!“: Cheryl and Thomas Reid join host Qudsiya Naqui on Down to the Struts.


Abstract Documentary I Didn’t See You There Shoots Life from a Wheelchair” by Jacob Oller for Paste Magazine and “Sundance 2022 Critic’s Notebook: I Didn’t See You There, Jihad Rehab” by Abby Sun for Filmmaker Magazine review Reid Davenport’s personal documentary, commenting on Cheryl’s captioning.


In Living Color: Audio Description Looks Past People of Color” by Thomas Reid for Bitch Media about the inequity of “colorblind” audio description mentions Cheryl and audio description work she’s done for Kinetic Light.


“Saying ‘Thank You’ For Quality Captions: A Promising Shift in Inviting Access” by Cheryl in the Canadian Journal of Disability Studies Vol. 10 No. 2 (2021): VIBE: Challenging Ableism and Audism Through the Arts


“Describing race, skin color, ethnicity, gender and disability within contemporary audio description” panel presentation with Dr. Rachel Hutchinson, Thomas Reid, Cheryl, Maria Vicky Diaz, and Renee Arrington-Johnson at the American Council of the Blind National Convention, July 22, 2021.


Interview on The Bridgeliner with Cheryl for the 19th Annual Filmed By Bike Film Festival with Cheryl about “TBI & My Longest Ride.”


Oscars 2021: Movies I’ve Seen in 2020 Part 4“: a listing of favored movies by Canadian disability rights advocate Olivia Rukavina lists “TBI & My Longest Ride” in his personal Oscars.


Cooking With Brain Injury— And Finding Humor In it” on The Sporkful. Dan Pashman talks with Cheryl about what it means to live with an invisible disability, how it affects her cooking, and why asking for help can be a beautiful thing. Plus, Cheryl records herself making a meal.


Podcasting” on the Disability Visibility Podcast. Host Alice Wong celebrates the 100th episode by interviewing her three producers: Cheryl, Geraldine Ah-Sue, and Sarika Mehta. Audio and transcripts at the link.


“Making Art Accessible”: Panel hosted by Alyscia Cunningham on a multi-sensory, accessible art exhibit following the documentary film “I Am More Than My Hair.”


Movie for Brain Injury Awareness Month” by Laura Hagemann on the Writing By Laura blog.


Celebrating Awareness Month: Spotlight on Oregon, 2021” on the National Association of State Head Injury Administrators (NASHIA) website.


The Future of Doc Accessibility“: Panel discussion hosted by DOC NYC and featuring Michele Spitz, Cheryl Green, Amanda Upson, and Andraéa LaVant, and moderated by Alysa Nahmias.


2020 Vision: Documentary Filmmaking in a Global Pandemic” on how several New Day Films filmmakers (including Cheryl) shifted and continued to work on documentary films in the first year of the novel coronavirus pandemic.


Transforming Dance Into a Sonic Experience: Kinetic Light’s Innovation in Audio Description,” article on the All Senses Go Access In Focus series including an interview with Cheryl.


Accessibility, Creation, Community: An Interview with Cheryl Green” on the BMJ’s Medical Humanities Podcast with Dr. Brandy Schillace.


Access Reframed: Presenters Conversation with Full Spectrum Features: a panel on equity and access for filmmakers and audiences with disabilities, and the onus for providing access accommodations at screenings and festivals featuring Brenda Avila-Hanna, Emily Smith-Beitiks, and Cheryl Green, and moderated by Day Al-Mohamed.


No limit in airborne ‘Revel in Your Body,’ a dance film that literally flies,” article by Sydney Erlikh for See Chicago Dance.


#DigitalPerspectives Webinar (Accessibility and Impact in Digital Spaces): Cheryl was a co-panelist with Andraéa LaVant for Together Films discussing the importance of accessibility in film delivery.


Interview on DisArt’s DisTopia podcast for the My Dearest Friends project with Chris Smit and Jill Vyn.


7 Documentaries by Deaf and Disabled People to Watch After Crip Camp” by Alice Wong for Disability Visibility Project.


Review of Who Am I To Stop It by disabled journalist and documentary filmmaker Karina Sturm on the BMJ’s Medical Humanities blog


Review of Who Am I To Stop It by Jesseca Ynez Simmons in Journal of Disability & Religion 23(4)


SFFILM Partners with Superfest to Bring Disability Into Schools“: A blog post for SFFILM (San Francisco Film Festival) on my guest visit in two elementary school classrooms with “Stinky Chicken Dog 2”


What Ignoring the Disability Community Costs Hollywood” on The Cutaway: An article by Kerry McLaughlin featuring an interview with Cheryl and other disabled media artists


“TBI Awareness Memes Hyperindividualism, overcoming adversity, and the neoliberal capitalist project”: A brief essay for In Media Res’s Disability Media Theme Week.


Cheryl’s sound-rich episode of Pigeonhole called “May Day and the Moon” was published in Volume Nine of the Canadian journal called Critical Disability Discourse. The episode features disabled artist Grant Miller. Audio, text transcript, and artists’ reflection available at the link.


Cheryl reported “When Disability Requires A Different Approach” for the 70 Million Podcast, Season 2, Episode 2. Audio and text transcript available. This full season was nominated for a Peabody Award.


Conversation with Madison Cario, Executive Director of Regional Art & Culture Council celebrating their first 100 days at RACC.


2019 Best Brain Injury Blogs from Healthline


The Ramp Less Traveled” panel of disabled filmmakers at the International Documentary Association’s 2018 conference. Video has real Closed Captions.


Cheryl on Thomas Reid’s Reid My Mind Radio disability-focused podcast in “The Art of Access.” We talk about Audio Description and captions as tools for equity and as part of the art, not as dry pieces of accessibility compliance. Podcast has audio and text transcript.


Cheryl’s article, Audio Description as a Tool for Equity, on the New Day Films blog. 


Dr. Ann Millett-Gallant’s review of Who Am I To Stop It in the Open Access peer-reviewed journal Disability Studies Quarterly


Cheryl’s interview on the Tips and Tricks on How to Be Sick podcast with audio and text transcript.


Program for Together! 2018 Disability Film Festival, the only disability film festival in England.


Executive Director of NW Documentary Sam Gaty interviews Cheryl Green about making a documentary from inside TBI community and what it’s like to create a whole new ending for a documentary that was already finished.  Here is the interview transcript.


Severe TBI survivor Joan Miller interviews Cheryl Green for Civil Tongues Toastmasters’ Portland TV Toastmasters. Interview lasts the first 12.25 minutes. Not captioned. Here is the interview transcript.


Toppling Structures of Inequality in the Documentary Field by Nico Opper, published on the International Documentary Association’s website.

Superfest 2018 films lineup: “Who Am I To Stop It” won the 2018 Disability Justice Award.


A wonderful review of Jess Thom’s “Stand Up Sit Down Roll Over” sketch comedy show that also included Wobbly Dance, Grant Miller, and Cheryl to present our film work and engage in discussion of disability culture, disability art, and universal design.


Dominick Evans and FilmDis podcast interview on Disrupt the Media with Cheryl about disability documentaries and TBI media. Here is a transcript.


Streaming Radio Interview with Amy Zellmer on Faces of TBI. And then, Here is a transcript.


Meet New Day Films member Cheryl Green, a short feature on becoming a filmmaker


Cheryl and Lavaun Benavidez-Heaster record for Disability Visibility Project and StoryCorps in 2015


Cheryl’s interview with Eddie Ytuarte of KPFA’s Pushing Limits on cripping capitalism: Pushing Limits Transcript


Top Ten Tips for Teaching Disability Themes in the Classroom by Nomy Lamm.


Write up on presenters at the 2017 DisArt International Disability Arts Symposium on DisabilityArts.online


Essay and brief interview on Bitch Media and Popaganda podcast about prisons, institutionalization, and disability community.


Blog post describing a co-presentation Cheryl gave for NW NOGGIN art and neuroscience outreach non-profit on the power of the arts for changing society after brain injury in 2016.


Guest blog post on intandem.co.uk about miscommunication when we don’t ask people what they mean when they speak their minds.


Interview with “Street Roots” newspaper by Sue Zalokar on social justice, traumatic brain injury, and “Who Am I To Stop It” called “There’s No Stopping Disability-Justice Advocate Cheryl Green“on November 19, 2015.


Interview with Caitlin Wood on KBOO Community Radio’s Bread and Roses Collective show about making feminism more inclusive of disability, on October 16, 2015.


Interview with Axis Dance Company’s Rebecca Fortelka on July 28, 2015.


Guest blogger on Adios Barbie, “Dear Ableism: It’s Not Me. It’s Really, Really You” on March 23, 2015.


Guest blogger on Adios Barbie, “Dear World: How I Got My Brain Injury is None of Your Business” on January 19, 2015.


Interview with disabled blogger and activist Meriah Nichols on A Little Moxie’s Voices from the Disability Community and a guest post about ableism on that site.


Interview for panelists of University of Portland’s BeYou-ty Pageant in the student paper, The Beacon.


Article on Flowtv.org discussing disability-made media in the new online media landscape includes “Criptiques On Film: Very Special Episodes”.


Bitch Media interview with Caitlin Wood and Cheryl Green highlighting “Criptiques On Film: Very Special Episodes“.


In One Day Radio Podcast where Cheryl Green and Cynthia Lopez were guests, talking about “Who Am I To Stop It.” We come onto the show around 1 hour, 11 minutes.


Guest blog post on the Girl With The Cane blog by Sarah Levis, who writes about social, political, and critical aspects of disability from a stroke and brain surgery.


A blog post on the Women In Film \ Portland website about the essence of this film and our post-production Kickstarter campaign.


Guest host on Disability.TV podcast with Andrew Pulrang discussing disability representations in “Glee”


Three-part podcast interview with disability activist Jane Hash on Hash It Out With Jane. We discuss ableism, stigma, “Who Am I To Stop It,” comedy, activism, and many personal topics. Please note this podcast contains cussing and adult content. Not safe for work.


Blog post on Changed Lives New Journeys about art and creativity where Cheryl Green and “Who Am I To Stop It” are featured among a range of other artists.


Interview with Caitlin Wood for Criptiques, an anthology exploring the provocative side of disability. Please note this recording contains adult language and is not safe for work.


Blog post on Emily Ladau’s Words I Wheel By blog on experiences of disability.


Interview with Caitlin Wood of Where’s Lulu? arts and disability blog.


Craig Sicilia’s streaming show “Have I Died and Gone To Hell” featured guest appearance by Cheryl Green on February 4, 2013. Cheryl discussed mentors with brain injuries, the need for peer support, and film starting at 94 minutes into the show.


A collection of guest blog posts on the Lash & Associates Publishing/Training Inc. website.