Category: Community News

  • Survey for d/Deaf/HoH folks with media accessibility

    Listen to this post: Brianna Rowlands and Dr. Maryam Salehomoum are working on a project related to media accessibility (for example, factors that enhance vs. reduce a person’s access to and enjoyment of different forms of media such as film, television, and online content). This is Brianna’s Senior Capstone project at Emerson College. They’re asking…

  • Easterseals Disability Film Challenge 2024 Audio Description

    Listen to this post: Now in its 11th year, the Easterseals Disability Film Challenge (EDFC) worked with Social Audio Description Collective to provide audio description for 15 of the 16 finalists. And this is the first time that the film challenged has organized to get professional audio description on any of their films. We did…

  • 20th anniversary Queer Women of Color Film Festival

    Listen to this post: Welcome to Queer Women of Color Media Arts Project’s 20th annual International Queer Women of Color Film Festival: A Joyful Reunion. QWOCFF24 will premiere 44 films in 5 screenings at the free festival, June 14-16, 2024. Yes, free. Access includes captions, audio description, and ASL interpretation at all screenings. The festival…

  • Evolving Our Power: A Dis/Rep Workshop

    Listen to this post: Celebrate Dis/Rep Workshop’s fifth year of revolutionary access and Disability-led learning for us and by us. Experience access negotiations, shared readings, and group discussions as we consider change as a powerful force that can make us stronger together. The workshops this year will be four Sundays in May and June: May…

  • Access as Art and Practice at PAM CUT

    Listen to this post: On October 23rd, 2024, I’ll be co-presenting at a workshop called Art and Practice in Creative Projects with Ariel Baska virtually, hosted by Portland Art Museum’s Center for an Untold Tomorrow (PAM CUT). In this artist talk and workshop, Ariel, a multiply disabled horror filmmaker and disability advocate, shares their experiences…