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Meet the Documentary Team: Cynthia “Jeans” Lopez
Listen to this post: When I first met Cheryl, we were both graduate students working on a literacy research project at Portland State University. I left that research position, in part due to my fear of laminated badges, and over the next few years I worked toward becoming an ethnographic researcher and/or visual anthropologist. But…
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Spotlight on Disability Film Festivals: Cinema Touching Disability
Listen to this post: Howdy, filmmakers. Check out the Coalition of Texans with Disabilities and the Cinema Touching Disability Film Festival! Submissions are now open for the 2013 competition. I submitted my film just this morning! This festival started in 2004. The idea was “to create a film festival to counter negative stereotypes about people with…
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Guest Blogger: Annie Salness
Listen to this post spoken by Annie Salness: Painter Annie Salness is bringing together two worlds in the way she paints. Two years ago, she had a stroke and lost the use of her dominant right hand. Calling on her experience coaching sports, she now gives herself daily drawing drills and exercises to gain more…