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Guest Blogger Poet Louise Mathewson and Blessings for Those with Brain Injuries
Listen to this post with poetry read by Louise Mathewson: Here’s another wonderful offering from poet and author Louise Mathewson. You first met her on this blog in a post from August 8, 2013 about her memoir, “A Life Interrupted.” Now she’s back. And this time you get to hear her read her poetry. Click on the play…
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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…