Year: 2018

  • Texas TBI Conference and storytelling

    Listen to this post: Storytelling! In a few weeks, I’ll be leading a short storytelling workshop at the Texas Brain Injury Conference. Of course, I’m thrilled to be back home in Texas in August. I look forward to the chance to melt from the heat and humidity of Central Texas like I grew up doing.…

  • Pigeonhole Podcast 8: Lavaun Benavidez-Heaster on not smiling

    Listen to this post: [The podcast episode is at the bottom of the page.] Tatyana Fazlalizadeh created a campaign in 2012 called “Stop Telling Women to Smile” in response to street harassment. I love the campaign. It was relevant then and just as much today, unfortunately. Add to the conversation disability, and you get Sarabjit Parmar’s experience…

  • NW Deaf Arts Festival celebrates Deaf Cultural Diversity

    Listen to this post: On June 16th, 2018, history will be made as the Northwest Deaf Arts Festival (NWDAF) will bring together top national Deaf artists who share a passion for an inclusive and innovative multi-sensory cultural extravaganza made equally accessible for Deaf and Hearing allies. For the first time in recent times, Portland Oregon will…

  • Pigeonhole Podcast 7: Colleen and Her Guide Dog

    Listen to this post: [The podcast episode is at the bottom of this page.] Meet Colleen and her guide dog, Joplin, our first episode in a series of stories from people with their working dogs. Here they are, snuggling. Colleen runs the Blind Inspirationcast with the goal of “changing the world’s perspective regarding visual impairments through motivational…

  • Hollywood Theatre PDX Airport Cinema Shorts

    Listen to this post: Airports. Ugh. I’ll just leave it at that. Or I would have left it there until The Hollywood Theatre opened their microcinema at the PDX Airport here in Portland in February, 2017. They have seasons where a selection of local short films play on an hour-long loop. If you had a…