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Pigeonhole Podcast 19: Alice Wong on Good Radio Voices
Listen to this post: [The podcast audio is at the bottom of the page.] This is a rebroadcast of a 2017 episode exploring the ableism behind deciding which voices are good enough to be on radio and which aren’t. Chenjerai Kumanyika wrote a beautiful manifesto about the effect of code-switching on him as he tried…
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The #AccessIsLove Campaign: Love it!
Listen to this post: Let’s just start here, with this picture of Mia Mingus, Alice Wong, and Sandy Ho smiling, and with the idea that providing access is a way to demonstrate love. And then, let’s have this short, subtitled video from Alice with more about it. In the video, you have Alice, an Asian-American…
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Disability Visibility Podcast
Listen to this post: Remember a few months ago when I did that podcast episode with Alice Wong? We were talking about a big question: Why aren’t there more disabled voices hosting radio shows and podcasts? We also talked about interrogating the word “good.” There’s no inherent goodness to one voice and badness to another.…
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Disability Visibility Project on Patreon
Listen to this post: Three cheers for the Disability Visibility Project! Now you can cheer for the DVP and cheer them on every month by signing up for regular donations on Patreon. It could be as little $1 a month. Or you can become a Top Cat (illustrated on their page by, of course, a…
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Lights! Camera! Access! 2.0
Listen to this post: Short notice alert! This morning I just got a press release for a really cool looking event. I wanted to pass along the details. That’s not because most people I know can go to the Lights! Camera! Access! 2.0 event in New York City but mostly because I want people to…