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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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Pigeonhole Podcast 37: When can I cuss again?
Listen to this post: Built-in accessibility in mainstream software is amazing. It’s nice to not have to purchase new apps or software if you don’t think you’re going to be using the feature long term. I’m writing this right now with Microsoft Word’s dictate feature! But there’s a darker side to this, or rather, Microsoft…
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Pigeonhole Podcast 23: Thomas Reid and DIY podcasting
Listen to this post: Thomas Reid’s podcast, Reid My Mind Radio, is one of my faves, so it’s my huge honor and pleasure to have him on my show. Please also check out the Disability Visibility Podcast episode 52 where Thomas and Prince Bri of Power Not Pity talked to Alice Wong about their work…
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Ah, disabled and mundane
Listen to this post: I had the great privilege of being able to fly to a conference recently to talk about the perils of non-disabled people interpreting disability through their own lens. Imagine my delight when I happened across the page in Delta’s magazine where a different celebrity in each issue lists out their travel…
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Pigeonhole Podcast 19: Alice Wong on Good Radio Voices
Listen to this post: [The podcast audio is at the bottom of the page.] This is a rebroadcast of a 2017 episode exploring the ableism behind deciding which voices are good enough to be on radio and which aren’t. Chenjerai Kumanyika wrote a beautiful manifesto about the effect of code-switching on him as he tried…