Category: Community News

  • Including Disability Global Summit 2025 online

    Listen to this post: Registration is open for the 2025 unapologetically online, and free, Including Disability Global Summit (IDGS)! The IDGS ‘25 theme is “Crip Narratives: Controlling our Stories.” The Summit is April 22–24, 2025, so hold those dates. Here’s a blurb from their website: “Disabled researchers, journalists, artists, authors, musicians, and other creators have worked to…

  • Pigeonhole Podcast 49: Introducing the POD Access Podcast

    Listen to this post: Wow. I only released two podcast episodes in 2024. I was starting to feel sad because I used to be working on an episode all the time and publishing monthly. But I’m not sad because what I have been working on is another podcast! Pigeonhole is not going away, and I…

  • Film & Freedom Academy tailored for LBTQIA+ BIPOC with communication disabilities

    Listen to this post: Queer Women of Color Media Arts Project is thrilled to announce a free Film & Freedom Academy tailored for LBTQIA+ BIPOC with communication disabilities. The workshop will be onsite November 8-11, 2024 in San Francisco. Following the leadership of Sins Invalid, QWOCMAP uses the term “communication disabilities” to include anything that…

  • Renegades on PBS: Disabled historical figures in the US

    Listen to this post: Renegades is a documentary short series about disabled icons premiering on PBS for American Masters. Hosted by award-winning musician and disability rights champion Lachi, Renegades premieres Tuesdays, October 1 – October 29 on American Masters’ YouTube channel, PBS.org, and the PBS App. The world premiere was hosted at the Kennedy Center on…

  • Superfest Disability Film Festival 2024

    Listen to this post: Move over, pumpkin spice. Move over to my own birthday. It’s Superfest season, my favorite time of the year! This year is the 38th festival of the longest-running disability film festival, and it marks an exciting new collaboration. This year, the festival is co-presented by the Longmore Institute on Disability and…