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Who Am I To Stop It at Portland Community College Rock Creek Campus
Listen to this post: Next week, the Disability Services and Students With Disabilities Club are sponsoring a screening of Who Am I To Stop It at Portland Community College Rock Creek! Here’s what’s on the flyer: RC Students With Disabilities Club presents: Who Am I To Stop It, a film by Cheryl Green and Cynthia…
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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…