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Real Choice Initiative Open House
Listen to this post: Check out the Real Choice Initiative Open House this Thursday, March 29th and get to know this great new non-profit. Real Choice Initiative is about housing justice focused on disability access. It’s a peer-led movement: people with disabilities supporting others with disabilities to find and get accessible, affordable housing. This isn’t…
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Asserting a New Vision for the Revolutionary Body at Lewis and Clark
Listen to this post: This workshop! All the info below is from Lewis and Clark’s description of an upcoming workshop led by Patty Berne with in-person facilitation by Nomy Lamm. We all have some relationship to what is considered the “normal” or the “non-normative” body, and it’s likely a relationship laced with assumptions, judgement, and…
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Pigeonhole Podcast Episode 4: Free Our People Festival
Listen to this post: [The podcast audio is at the bottom of the post.] Here’s an audio-only version of my short documentary “In My Home.” This was made for the Free Our People Film Contest and Festival in 2017, and it continues to be a reminder of the anti-institutionalization movement that’s so important for disability…
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Film screening at the OHSU Brain Institute
Listen to this post: What better way to honor National Brain Injury Awareness Month than by showing Who Am I To Stop It, I ask you. How about showing that film for free sponsored by the Brain Institute at OHSU? I’ll take it! A few years back, I screened a film that had absolutely nothing…
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ReelAbilities Portland is back!
Listen to this post: Hopefully, all you Portland-area people got to come to some or all of the ReelAbilities screenings Disability Art and Culture Project did two years ago. DACP is back at it with a whole new line-up of films. And they’re showcasing local short films again. Local filmmakers, this is your chance to highlight some…