Who Am I To Stop It

Category: Community News

  • Free First Thursday and Disability Pride at Portland Art Museum

    Listen to this post: On Thursday, July 2nd, 2026, the Portland Art Museum will host a day full of accessible art events. And it’s free for First Thursday! You can reserve your free tickets now at PortlandArtMuseum.org/tickets. Tickets will also be available at the door. Here’s some of the events being planned. More might be…

  • Help fund My Friend Blue: A stop-motion animation of a non-speaking autistic child

    Listen to this post: This is the show creator Andrés Eduardo wishes they’d had as a kid, and you can help fund it on Seed & Spark. Andrés wrote this on the fundraising page for My Friend Blue: “Hello! This is my good friend Penny, and my friends call me Blue. We’re making a stop-motion…

  • Stream Alice Wong’s Celebration of Life

    Listen to this post: True to my style and flow, I forgot to post about Alice Wong’s live-streamed Celebration of Life before it happened. Fortunately, it’s available for replay on YouTube anytime, and I strongly suggest a replay. Enormous thanks to San Francisco’s Disability Cultural Center and Calling Up Justice and everyone who planned, hosted,…

  • Think Out Loud

    Listen to this post: Oregon Public Broadcasting has a great show called Think Out Loud. It’s OPB’s daily conversation covering news, politics, culture and the arts. I had the great opportunity for a 20-minute chat on the show recently. My conversation with Dave Miller from January 6th, 2026 is about access art, weird sensory changes…

  • What I mean with I (heart) disability

    Listen to this post: I found this picture of me from the early 2010s wearing my handmade I (heart) disability shirt. Yeah, I’m smiling in the picture. But it’s a strained smile. I’m speaking confidently into a microphone at a podium, but I’m wringing my hands, like I am in most pictures from the time.…