Category: Pigeonhole Podcast

  • Pigeonhole Podcast 21: Jess Thom of Touretteshero

    Listen to this post: I had the grand pleasure to interview Jess Thom over a year ago when she was in Portland to perform. If you’re not familiar with Jess’s work, pop over to Touretteshero.com to find pictures of Jess in her superhero costume. You can search the website for a catalogue of her Tourette’s…

  • Pigeonhole Podcast 20: Gold Eye, Golden Dog

    Listen to this post: [The podcast audio is at the bottom of the post.] Meet Brandon and Chutney. Well, if you’ve been here before, you’ve met Brandon, star of “Who Am I To Stop It” and “Stinky Chicken Dog 2.” But you have to spend some time with him when Chutney’s around: sniffing the microphone,…

  • Pigeonhole Podcast 19: Alice Wong on Good Radio Voices

    Listen to this post: [The podcast audio is at the bottom of the page.] This is a rebroadcast of a 2017 episode exploring the ableism behind deciding which voices are good enough to be on radio and which aren’t. Chenjerai Kumanyika wrote a beautiful manifesto about the effect of code-switching on him as he tried…

  • Pigeonhole Podcast 18: Deafness, Disability, and Incarceration with Talila Lewis

    Listen to this post: [The podcast audio is at the bottom of the page.] Today’s episode is a rebroadcast of an interview I did with Talila A. Lewis in 2017. Talila takes a critical, much-needed look at issues around ableism, audism, sanism, and racism in the carceral system. We only talked briefly about HEARD (Helping…

  • Pigeonhole Podcast 17: Autoethnographic poetry

    Listen to this post: [The podcast is at the bottom of the post.] The Trauma Survivors Network community celebrates National Trauma Survivors Day on May 16th. One of the reasons this network got started was research that says it’s not how bad a traumatic injury is that tells you how difficult recovery will be. It’s…