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Pigeonhole Podcast 8: Lavaun Benavidez-Heaster on not smiling
Listen to this post: [The podcast episode is at the bottom of the page.] Tatyana Fazlalizadeh created a campaign in 2012 called “Stop Telling Women to Smile” in response to street harassment. I love the campaign. It was relevant then and just as much today, unfortunately. Add to the conversation disability, and you get Sarabjit Parmar’s experience…
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Pigeonhole Podcast 7: Colleen and Her Guide Dog
Listen to this post: [The podcast episode is at the bottom of this page.] Meet Colleen and her guide dog, Joplin, our first episode in a series of stories from people with their working dogs. Here they are, snuggling. Colleen runs the Blind Inspirationcast with the goal of “changing the world’s perspective regarding visual impairments through motivational…
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Pigeonhole Podcast 6: May Day and the Moon
Listen to this post: (Podcast audio is at the bottom of the post.) Happy May Day, everyone. Don’t forget: President Eisenhower attempted to turn this labor organizing day into a national “Loyalty Day” celebration where people were supposed to reaffirm their love for and loyalty to the U.S. and its “heritage of freedoms.” Odd choice…
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Pigeonhole Podcast 5: Radio Transcripts
Listen to this post: [The podcast audio is at the bottom of the post.] Some people can really relate to flippant comments like, “Yeah, this place is accessible. It only has two stairs.” Or, “We could just get a sign language student to volunteer to interpret our event to save some money” Or, “It’s not…