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Spotlight on Disability Film Festivals: The Disability Film Challenge 48-hour film race is on!
Listen to this post: If you keep up with my occasional Spotlight on Disability Film Festival posts, you’ve had a nice huckle or two about how I rarely post about these festivals in time to either submit to or visit them. This time I am ahead of the game and just in time. I’ve heard…
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I know you want to crack some jokes about disability
Listen to this post: This is a call for submissions! The media likes to tell us that having a disability is clearly a sad thing. Sure, there are sad parts and sad times, but who doesn’t have a little or a lot of that? Disability in and of itself isn’t sad. It’s reality. And for some…
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Just people together
Listen to this post: I’ve been having some delightfully engaging conversations with two people deeply connected to disability. They have years upon years of direct lived experience around disability, stigma and oppression. And we have been talking a lot lately! I can’t get enough. Here are the two themes we’re on: communication and just being…
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HeadStrong for Life at Washington State annual TBI Conference
Listen to this post: If you go to the HeadStrong for Life Facebook page, you’ll see some definitions of the word “headstrong.” Simple things like “directed by ungovernable will” and “not easily restrained.” Aren’t those fabulous images of people living with brain injury having agency, choices and passions? I love it! As a matter of…
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Behind the scenes sneak peek 4
Listen to this post: It’s been quite a long time since I posted photos here from our film shoots. Here are a few from the last several months. You can always check out more pictures on the film’s Facebook page at www.facebook.com/WhoAmIToStopIt even if you don’t have a Facebook account! Dani’s graduation from Olympia High School,…