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My Beautiful Broken Brain Review
Listen to this post: I am so glad I just watched the Netflix documentary “My Beautiful Broken Brain” about documentary film producer Lotje Sodderland from 2014. I typically have no patience for documentaries that begin with people talking about the film’s main star, but you don’t hear from the star themselves. Especially when it’s about disability,…
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The movie is done!
Listen to this post: Hot news! We finished editing “Who Am I To Stop It.” [Image description: “Who Am I To Stop It” in black text.] Next steps: it’s off to Jason Wells at AUDIOWELLS to balance out the voices and music. Then, we head over to color correction land. In the meantime, I am about…
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Reflecting on justice
Listen to this post: Artist and activist Carole Zoom donated to our recent Kickstarter campaign and won what I thought was a very cool perk! Her perk was this: “Cheryl will write an original post about you or publish a post that you write on WhoAmIToStopIt.com.” True to form, Carole redeemed her perk by telling me that…
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Who Am I To Stop It on Kickstarter
Listen to this post: How much would you love to have a sticker that looks just like this? (Or your very own 10-pack of them?) [Image description: A drawing of a pale-pink brain reshaped into the shape of a heart.] All you have to do is pop on over to www.kickstarter.com/projects/807526735/who-am-i-to-stop-it. Check out the various giving…
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Isolation, art, and transformation after brain injury
Listen to this post: I wanted to take a some time to sort of unpack this film for you. The meaning of the film and my own politics around disability have changed and grown in the two years we’ve been working on it, which you might not know. If you’ve been following for a while, you might notice…