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Disability Visibility Project partnership with StoryCorps
Listen to this post: A lot of people have asked about my business name. It’s StoryMinders. I like the play on words with minding a story and having a story about the mind. But, honestly, I get antsy around the word “story.” In the brain injury community it seems to refer to the date, time, location,…
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Dumb: A comic about a voice gone missing
Listen to this post: If there’s one “compliment” that irks me, it’s when extroverted disabled people or people with access and resources are called The Voice For The Voiceless when they talk about disability rights, justice or inclusion. (Note: I put “compliment” in quotation marks because that’s how I show that it’s intended to be…
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The Tangled Ones A 20-something living with AVM blog
Listen to this post: How do people actually find each other? I think this to myself every time I’m on an airplane, flying over a city and observing the seemingly endless expanse of buildings with people coming in and out of them. The tiny toy cars are streaming down streets and highways. Look at all…
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Spotlight on Disability Film Festivals: Picture this…film festival
Listen to this post: High fives all around! I’ve managed to alert you to an upcoming film festival in plenty of time to both attend it and even submit your film to the 2015 competition! I know I will be submitting a short to this one. The Picture this…film festival is part of the Calgary SCOPE…
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An Injury For Life by Liam O’Brien on RTÉ
Listen to this post: If there’s one thing I consume more than documentary movies, it’s radio documentaries. My visual system sometimes gets overloaded, or I get distracted from listening while I’m looking at a movie. So radio documentaries are the perfect thing to keep me constantly learning about other people, situations, societies and cultures. Just today,…