Category: Community News

  • Blind-Centered Audio Description Chat Watch and Listen Party

    Listen to this post: Thomas Reid, Nefertiti Matos Olivares, and I have been co-hosting a live conversation and panel series called Blind-Centered Audio Description Chats since December, 2022. We started out on a social media platform that had a thing called Spaces, and we later tried out a few other spots like LinkedIn and Clubhouse.…

  • SF Snarkfest Encore! Comedy Festival

    Listen to this post: Peacock Rebellion and Snarkzilla present: SF Snarkfest Encore! A Trans BIPOC Comedy Festival Tuesday, November 14th, 2023, 6:00 PM PST on YouTube Live. Prepare to be entertained by a lineup of trans comedians of color who share their unique perspectives on a variety of topics including aging, jail, Trader Joe’s ube…

  • 19th Annual Queer Women of Color Film Festival

    Listen to this post: I notice a bunch of big-name non-disability film festivals jumping on the accessibility bandwagon, offering captioned and audio described films, captioning and ASL interpretation at panels, alt text on social media posts. We’re getting somewhere. I also notice something important missing from some festivals and organizations that suddenly start offering this…

  • New Day Films’ Reframe & Refresh: Disability in the Arts

    Listen to this post: Reframe & Refresh is a monthly webinar series for the education and filmmaking community to have refreshing conversations that reframe our perspectives. In my mind, it’s been the most exciting project to come out of New Day Films since I joined, and it’s my great honor that I got to be…

  • Register For Dis/Rep 2023: Holding Us Together

    Listen to this post: Dis/Rep is back for another fully virtual series of interactive workshops called Dis/Rep 2023: Holding Us Together. Dis/Rep is a 6-week relaxed virtual meeting space on Zoom that will meet for two hours on six Sundays between April 23rd and June 4th. If you can’t attend live, that works too. If…