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War To Home Veterans’ art show
Listen to this post: New exhibition coming up in Portland! Here’s the text on the flyer: “From War to Home: The Impact of Invisible Injuries is a new exhibit of photos and stories from Veterans and their families living in Portland, Oregon and Southeast Louisiana. As part of a research collaboration using the photovoice methods,…
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Pigeonhole Podcast 18: Deafness, Disability, and Incarceration with Talila Lewis
Listen to this post: [The podcast audio is at the bottom of the page.] Today’s episode is a rebroadcast of an interview I did with Talila A. Lewis in 2017. Talila takes a critical, much-needed look at issues around ableism, audism, sanism, and racism in the carceral system. We only talked briefly about HEARD (Helping…
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A PSA about overcoming
Listen to this post: This is a PSA about non-disabled people referring to disabled people who hold a job as “overcoming their disabilities.” Please don’t. That’s really the whole PSA. But if you want elaboration and context, please read on! I did an online search of “stop saying overcoming disability,” and I still just got…
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Pigeonhole Podcast 17: Autoethnographic poetry
Listen to this post: [The podcast is at the bottom of the post.] The Trauma Survivors Network community celebrates National Trauma Survivors Day on May 16th. One of the reasons this network got started was research that says it’s not how bad a traumatic injury is that tells you how difficult recovery will be. It’s…
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Access in Media
Listen to this post: I’m delighted to report that I’m talking to more and more filmmakers and podcasters interested in adding access to their work because it seems exciting, engaging, and equitable, not just to be compliant with federal laws. Even cooler, there’s more content available created by disabled people. This work demonstrates their ideas…