Who Am I To Stop It

Mixing Metaphors for humor

Listen to this post: Some people refer to brain injury as an invisible injury or disability. You can’t see anyone’s brain in every day life, injured or not. You know what else is kind of invisible? Humor. I’ve always been silly, and as I age, my humor is getting more like it was when I…

January 15, 2013
Check out Keith Jones: Un-rapping Disability

Listen to this post: Here is a beautifully done short documentary that looks at intersections of race and disability! Here’s Keith Jones using music (including krip hop), public speaking, humor, and total honesty. He raises awareness of disability discrimination in many forms: doctors saying he’ll never amount to much, folks on the street thinking he’ll…

January 12, 2013
Where did this brain injury film thing come from?

Listen to this post: As more folks I haven’t met are visiting this blog, I realized a little introduction is in order! This brain injury film thing started in 2011 when Impetus Arts produced its 3rd storytelling performance called “No One Wants to See the Wires.” It’s a writing and performance workshop for disabled artists.…

January 8, 2013
Guest Blogger: Tyler Presnell–Don’t judge

“We Wont quit Misunderstood judged and limp If the Wrong side of our mind is hit Loneliness can be a killer If the time we spend Hatin our own image and the line is thin That we walk on every day Society causes pain I wanna be normal But see the problem these days No…

January 2, 2013
Behind the scenes sneak peek 3

Listen to this post: Athena on drums as Dani does one of her original raps. Dani and Athena have always been close and crack each other up a lot. They’re cousins only a few months apart in age. See clips of Athena’s documentary film project about Dani on this very blog called “The World Unclear:…

December 31, 2012