This is the home for the Pigeonhole Podcast.
Transcripts: Each episode has a downloadable pdf and plain text transcript on the episode page along with show notes.
Episodes
PH 45: Nefertiti Matos Olivares in Three Chapters (with coffee)
PH 44: Red with Lavaun Benavidez-Heaster
PH 43: Corn, Bagels, and Captions (has some salty language)
PH 41: Playful Apparitions with Carmen Papalia
PH 40: The Low Bar Chorale at Home
PH 39: Disabled Podcasters’ Project Project
PH 35: Rick Hammond and Blind Versus TBI (encore)
PH 34: AAC Voices and Talking About Audio Description
PH 33: Art for Brain Injury Awareness Month with Toni Hickman and Ann Millet-Gallant
PH 32: Bittin Foster Duggan and Growing Through It: Brain injury and art (encore)
PH 31: Introducing AAC Town podcast by Sam Vranizan and endever*
PH 30: Ajani AJ Murray and disability representation in the media (encore)
PH 29: Introducing Qudsiya Naqui’s Down to the Struts podcast
PH 28: Leslie Gregory on racism as a public health threat (encore)
PH 27: We have always loved access with Thomas Reid
PH 26: Disability Culture: Crip & Ally Care Exchange with Sandie Yi
PH 25: Dedicated to the late Kathy Coleman
PH 24: Lavaun Benavidez-Heaster and Audio Described Paper Visions
PH 23: Thomas Reid and DIY Podcasting
PH 22: Extended Interview with Jess Thom of Touretteshero
PH 21: Jess Thom of Touretteshero
PH 19: Alice Wong on “good” radio voices (encore)
PH 17: Autoethnographic poetry on life after severe TBI
PH 16: Accessible, Affordable Housing Justice Panel
PH 11: Intersectional Gender Equity in Arts and Unconscious Bias (encore)
PH 09: An Uncanny Neighbor Takes a Nap (encore)
PH 08: Lavaun Benavidez-Heaster and women with disabilities not smiling
PH 07: Colleen and her Guide Dog (encore)
PH 06: May Day and the Moon: Grant Miller on disability and work
PH 05: Transcripts for Radio and Podcasts
PH 04: In My Home: A short documentary film against institutionalization of disabled people
PH 03: Refugees with Disabilities
PH 02: Disabled at the 2018 Women’s March
PH 01: Welcome to the Pigeonhole Podcast!
Why pigeonhole?
I’m coming across these stories too often where if you want to access disability community, you’re supposed to erase conversations about your ethnicity or gender. Or to talk about reproductive justice, you can’t mention disability or lack of accessibility. People use disability terms as slurs against anyone they disagree with, pathologize people for holding different values, and ignore the racist and classist history and current reality of disability discrimination in this country. Erasing any pieces of people’s identities means we’re missing so much of what they have to offer culture and community. And we’re not here for stuffing people into a neat and tidy cubby hole by telling them who they are and how to live. We’re not here for demanding that disabled people inspire non-disabled people, accept their advice on miracle cures, or center the comfort of non-disabled people.
A pigeonhole can be a comfy place to take refuge if you want it. But too often, society tries to put us in a box and demand we sit in it quietly and gratefully. No thanks.
