Who Am I To Stop It

Category: Community News

  • 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.…

  • Pigeonhole Podcast 55: The Alice Wong

    Listen to this post: Alice Wong has died. I’m not doing a fifteen-hour tribute on the podcast, which is how long it would take me to scratch the surface of describing how much she meant to me and how much she gave the world and will continue to give. This is a short tribute. No…

  • Get Podcasting! at San Francisco’s Disability Cultural Center

    Listen to this post: I’m super excited to announce POD Access’s first interactive workshop that Thomas Reid and I are co-facilitating. It’ll be onsite and over Zoom. Everyone is welcome. It’ll be part of a series called Sustaining Us at the new San Francisco Disability Cultural Center. Here’s the write-up on the DCC’s website: Do…

  • Going Public: Sharing Your Health Journey on Social Platforms

    Listen to this post: I found this on a listserv, and it sounds extremely interesting! It’s a call for stories for a journal called Narrative Inquiry in Bioethics. Below are some of the basics. For this and more info, visit the journal’s website: NIBJournal.org/submit/calls/social-media/ Narrative Inquiry in Bioethics will publish a collection of personal stories…

  • AXS Film Fund

    Listen to this post: AXS Film Fund is now open! AXS Film Fund was founded to support documentary filmmakers and non-fiction new media creators living with disabilities, particularly those from historically underserved communities. Each year, AXS awards five creators with grants of up to $10,000 each to assist them in completing their projects in any…