Who Am I To Stop It

Category: Community News

  • Alex Locust/Glamputee: Queering Art Through Disability Justice

    Listen to this post: Wow, have I got a great event to tell you about for next week. It’s free, and it’s glamorous. Here’s the description off the event page for the Portland5. Join the Department of Culture and Community for a powerful night of deep discussions and drag performance with disability justice artist and…

  • 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…