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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 TL Lewis in 2017. TL 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…
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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…
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Pigeonhole Podcast 16: Housing Justice Panel
Listen to this post: Back in September, 2018, we had a housing justice and accessible housing panel at Independent Living Movie Night. This month’s podcast presents part of the panel discussion that happened after the film screenings. Why do I keep posting about this? Because even as we continue to take steps toward understanding and…
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Pigeonhole Podcast 15: The Disabled Caregiver
Listen to this post: A story of culture, chronic illness, disability, love, and rye bread. Nancy Sanchez gives a glimpse into the many layers of ableism in her life, from being called a faker as a child to people saying that caring for her sick father later in life was making her too sick to…
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Pigeonhole Podcast 14: ADD fun (encore)
Listen to this post: A few years ago, my friend, Taylor, and I sat down to talk–and ultimately laugh–about what we might have in common as people with invisible disabilities that affect how we think and process and organize and emote. For today’s episode, I excerpted the highlights of our conversation that had been published…