Category: Community News

  • Kris Haas artist receptions and fundraisers

    Listen to this post: I am remiss! I’ve been spending too much time posting, reposting, sharing, and super-sharing on Facebook around Kris Haas’s new fundraiser, that I did not remember to post about the newest update here. I believe in better late than never. Good thing, too. You can read more about Kris’s online fundraiser…

  • Disabled people love bikes, not barriers

    Listen to this post: Why bikes on a blog about disability art? Part of bringing out the stories of people’s lived experience of disability is to look at disability in daily life, what we do, where we go, how we do it. So, bikes. Not just any bikes. Handcycles. I am too late to invite…

  • Camp Our Time and Self-Advocacy

    Listen to this post: Get ready for some pretty awesome self-advocacy! The other night I went to a benefit event for the upcoming documentary, “The Way We Talk,” by Michael Turner. While there, I met Emily. She was sitting next to a table of t-shirts she had designed. Here’s the shirt design. Emily is raising…

  • Film for education and advocacy

    Listen to this post: Not long ago, my brain injury made a decision for me: go on medical leave from my job as a speech therapist because I was too impaired to work. Um, awkward. Didn’t I just finish this degree where I learned how to help people with brain injury get back to their…

  • Working with Linda Chase from One Week Job

    Listen to this post: I love to carry on about how easy it is to write comedy films and stand up comedy routines about my regular daily life. But one thing that’s hard for me to joke about is my new disorganization and inability to hang onto the bigger picture and the small details at…