Who Am I To Stop It

Year: 2013

  • “Re-membering” a memoir by Dr. Ann Millett-Gallant

    Listen to this post: Last winter, Dr. Ann Millett-Gallant introduced some ideas for her upcoming memoir. You can read about that and see some artwork in a post on this blog from December 6th, 2012. I had just started to become familiar with Ann’s work through her writing and her short film called Basilisk. I…

  • Microaggressions and brain injury disability

    Listen to this post: There are lots of stereotypes about people with brain injury: we’re all fixed as soon as we look good physically; we’ll never get better; we’re not smart anymore; we’re lazy about controlling our behavior. Oh, my favorite? If we don’t recover fully, it’s because we didn’t work hard enough. These are…

  • Artist Lavaun Heaster on Kickstarter

    Listen to this post: This is so exciting that more and more people I know are jumping online for fundraising. The latest addition is Lavaun Heaster! Lavaun brings multi-culturalism and diversity to a whole new level. Through her art, she dives into her ethnic heritage as well as her experiences around disability. You will find…

  • Guest Blogger Kris Haas on keeping an art studio organized

    Listen to this post:  We haven’t been filming very much this summer for the documentary. In case you wondered why all the posts are about other topics lately! I stopped by Kris’s apartment studio the other day. That space is under a cool transformation. She’s getting prepared to start her huge art project “1 YEAR,…

  • “The Way We Talk” documentary film about stuttering by Michael Turner

    Listen to this post: Listen, folks! We have more phenomenal art and storytelling from the inside. And it needs to get funded! Michael Turner has had his work screened on OPB and at the Oregon Heritage Conference. He won “Best Documentary” at The Teeny Tiny Film Festival in 2012. His new feature length film, “The…