Category: Community News

  • Intersections storytelling event at Portland State University

    Listen to this post: Storytelling again. I’ll never run out of space or interest in sharing about storytelling. This event is extra exciting because of its theme. It’s called “Intersections: An evening of storytelling about identity, culture, community, and pride.” Can’t top that. Intersections was designed, in part, to announce Portland State University’s development of a new Disability Studies Graduate…

  • A PSA about Don’t Talking and Being an Ass

    Listen to this post: There’s a fabulous movie theater back in Austin that I miss a ton, The Alamo Drafthouse. Great movies, delicious food, and a courteous waitstaff that takes your orders and brings your food during the film without distracting or disrupting. We have the real food at the movies here in Portland, but it’s nothing like the…

  • Portland Commission on Disability Tagline and Logo Contest

    Listen to this post: I’m not actually on the Portland Commission on Disability, but I do a bit of volunteering to help with outreach and event planning like for the past two years’ City ADA anniversary celebrations. I’ve also worked with Lavaun Heaster, one of the Commissioners, on a short film about youth and young…

  • The Chariot and The Fool

    Listen to this post: Not long ago–I can’t remember when because I’m enemies with calendars–Cynthia Lopez and I became models in Theresa Pridemore’s newest artistic creation, The Portland Tarot. In addition to being a wonderful friend and the fantastic graphic designer who developed our film logo, Theresa made this unique Tarot deck amid a million…

  • Book review: I had brain surgery, what’s your excuse?

    Listen to this post: The weirdest thing happens when people trip near me. They laugh nervously and say, “And I don’t even have an excuse like you do!” Insert extra chuckle there for good measure. It’s not really needed, that extra laugh. I mean, I don’t even trip that much. I’m never sure why people say…