Category: Community News

  • Microaggressions and brain injury disability

    Listen to this post: There are lots of stereotypes about people with brain injury: we’re all fixed as soon as we look good physically; we’ll never get better; we’re not smart anymore; we’re lazy about controlling our behavior. Oh, my favorite? If we don’t recover fully, it’s because we didn’t work hard enough. These are…

  • Artist Lavaun Heaster on Kickstarter

    Listen to this post: This is so exciting that more and more people I know are jumping online for fundraising. The latest addition is Lavaun Heaster! Lavaun brings multi-culturalism and diversity to a whole new level. Through her art, she dives into her ethnic heritage as well as her experiences around disability. You will find…

  • “The Way We Talk” documentary film about stuttering by Michael Turner

    Listen to this post: Listen, folks! We have more phenomenal art and storytelling from the inside. And it needs to get funded! Michael Turner has had his work screened on OPB and at the Oregon Heritage Conference. He won “Best Documentary” at The Teeny Tiny Film Festival in 2012. His new feature length film, “The…

  • ASL interpretation online for “Your Daily Dosage of Inspiration”

    Listen to this post: You often hear how the internet is a boon to sharing ideas and information. People all over the world with a computer and a hook-up can reach into a constantly growing body of information if they have the money and access to these things. We know that some governments limit what…

  • Calling Portland area actors who wanna fight me

    Listen to this post: It’s not that I love a good fight. But I do somehow seem to get into them a lot. I don’t ever use brain injury as an excuse or say I’m not responsible for my behavior. Honestly, though? I do get into more fights since the tbi. And yes, usually I…