Category: Community News

  • CrissCross Entrepreneurial Development Exchange Sessions for artists with disabilities

    Listen to this post: More great stuff. Always with the more great stuff! I’ve posted about Lavaun Heaster a few times now about her art and about the short student documentary called “Paper Visions” that I made about her last fall. Lavaun has been dedicated to growing her own arts business as well as contributing…

  • Disability Art and Culture Project and Heavy Load

    Listen to this post: You ever heard of that rule about treating others the way you want to be treated? I heard a great take on it last night:  treat others how they want to be treated. This is really a big, recurring theme on this blog. Yet I’d never thought about it in terms…

  • Floyd Skloot on forgetting…and the urge to brush him aside

    Listen to this post: I found a great article online today. Actually, my partner found it. He told me how to go to find it. But even as he started to describe where it was on the New York Times online, I could feel myself losing track. He emailed me the link. And I walked…

  • Shit academics say about access is not inspiring (but the film is)!

    Listen to this post: Remember to be generous with people who don’t get what you want them to get. With people who try to give you a compliment, but it feels insulting. With people who try to cheer you up when you just want to be heard. With people who try to encourage you about…

  • Black women in film

    Listen to this post: I want to share a film blog with some very specific goals I like. Reelsistas.com is “dedicated to bridging the gap between the women of color who want to see themselves, their mothers, their sisters, their daughters and their friends reflected on the screen and the women who are working to make…