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Including Disability Global Summit 2025 online
Listen to this post: Registration is open for the 2025 unapologetically online, and free, Including Disability Global Summit (IDGS)! The IDGS ‘25 theme is “Crip Narratives: Controlling our Stories.” The Summit is April 22–24, 2025, so hold those dates. Here’s a blurb from their website: “Disabled researchers, journalists, artists, authors, musicians, and other creators have worked to…
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Evolving Our Power: A Dis/Rep Workshop
Listen to this post: Celebrate Dis/Rep Workshop’s fifth year of revolutionary access and Disability-led learning for us and by us. Experience access negotiations, shared readings, and group discussions as we consider change as a powerful force that can make us stronger together. The workshops this year will be four Sundays in May and June: May…
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Access as Art and Practice at PAM CUT
Listen to this post: On October 23rd, 2024, I’ll be co-presenting at a workshop called Art and Practice in Creative Projects with Ariel Baska virtually, hosted by Portland Art Museum’s Center for an Untold Tomorrow (PAM CUT). In this artist talk and workshop, Ariel, a multiply disabled horror filmmaker and disability advocate, shares their experiences…
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19th Annual Queer Women of Color Film Festival
Listen to this post: I notice a bunch of big-name non-disability film festivals jumping on the accessibility bandwagon, offering captioned and audio described films, captioning and ASL interpretation at panels, alt text on social media posts. We’re getting somewhere. I also notice something important missing from some festivals and organizations that suddenly start offering this…
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New Day Films’ Reframe & Refresh: Disability in the Arts
Listen to this post: Reframe & Refresh is a monthly webinar series for the education and filmmaking community to have refreshing conversations that reframe our perspectives. In my mind, it’s been the most exciting project to come out of New Day Films since I joined, and it’s my great honor that I got to be…