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Pigeonhole Podcast 21: Jess Thom of Touretteshero
Listen to this post: I had the grand pleasure to interview Jess Thom over a year ago when she was in Portland to perform. If you’re not familiar with Jess’s work, pop over to TourettesHero.com to find pictures of Jess in her superhero costume. You can search the website for a catalogue of her Tourette’s…
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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…
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Some accessibility signs in England
Listen to this post: Physical and sensory access alone is not my ideal end goal for universal design. I went someplace recently where there was some great physical access for disabled people, but there were unwelcoming, infantalizing comments made about disability many times, and who wants to be around that? Or another recent place had…