Who Am I To Stop It

Tag: ableism

  • Pigeonhole Podcast 27: We have always loved access with Thomas Reid

    Listen to this post: The curb cut effect describes what happens when a technology or design that’s for access for deaf and disabled people works so great that everyone can and wants to use it. Like curb cuts! It’s not like you have to walk around a curb cut if you’re not a wheelchair or…

  • Pigeonhole Podcast 22: Extended Interview with Jess Thom

    Listen to this post: [The podcast audio is at the bottom of the page.] Even though I’ve gotten out of the business of publishing long-form interviews, nearly all of the stories on the podcast still come out of long interviews. Sometimes I ask someone for a single story with lots of detail and background. Sometimes…

  • A PSA about overcoming

    Listen to this post: This is a PSA about non-disabled people referring to disabled people who hold a job as “overcoming their disabilities.” Please don’t. That’s really the whole PSA. But if you want elaboration and context, please read on! I did an online search of “stop saying overcoming disability,” and I still just got…

  • 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…

  • Disability Art and Culture Project: Get REAL

    Listen to this post: Even more exciting work coming from Portland’s disability art and social justice organization, DACP. “GET REAL”: An interactive work-in-progress forum theater about employment and economic justice. Join Disability Art and Culture Project to learn about economic justice for people with disabilities in Oregon through forum theater, and cultivate REAL change for our…