Who Am I To Stop It

Tag: disability stigma

  • Pigeonhole Podcast 34: AAC Voices and Talking About Audio Description

    Listen to this post: [Podcast audio is at the bottom of the post.] Following my 2019 episode about radio and disabled voices, today’s episode is about the way people describe synthesized voices. My guest, endever*, isn’t an audio describer, and we don’t get into Audio Description (AD) per se. But AD is what led me…

  • “Dear Everybody,” from Canadians with disabilities

    Listen to this post: I don’t often write about rehab programs. This blog has long been a space to center perspectives and ideas of people who typically end up in rehab, not the people who run rehab programs. Which is why I’m writing about one today. The Holland Bloorview Kids Rehabilitation Hospital in Toronto has…

  • What’s a little loneliness?

    Listen to this post:  I don’t really talk about rehab on this blog, but this popped into my mind today. There was a time when I couldn’t get places very well unless you gave me a car ride there. Between getting on the wrong bus, getting off at the wrong stop, tripping over leaves and…

  • Wait, disability model what?

    Listen to this post:  In the past few years I’ve encountered some discussions of disability models that feel weird. It usually takes some form kind of like this: Person 1: In the medical model, a disability is defined by the impairments and limitations a disabled person has. In the social model, society disables people, not their impairments.…

  • Dumb: A comic about a voice gone missing

    Listen to this post:  If there’s one “compliment” that irks me, it’s when extroverted disabled people or people with access and resources are called The Voice For The Voiceless when they talk about disability rights, justice or inclusion. (Note: I put “compliment” in quotation marks because that’s how I show that it’s intended to be…