Tag: Criptiques

  • KBOO Community Radio interview

    Listen to this post:  I’m a big fans of community media in all its forms. I’m currently taking classes to become a Producer at Portland Community Media. We hope to film more Very Special Episodes there. And I definitely also want to have a disability culture program there on TV. Because do we have one? I…

  • Very Special Episodes from Criptiques On Film!

    Listen to this post:  Special! There’s a word I don’t like when it’s related to disability. It feels like such a consolation prize. Well, we only recently decided as a nation you should be allowed a public education. So your education will be Special. We don’t think you’re good enough athletes to truly compete. So your competitions will be…

  • Disability Visibility Project partnership with StoryCorps

    Listen to this post:  A lot of people have asked about my business name. It’s StoryMinders. I like the play on words with minding a story and having a story about the mind. But, honestly, I get antsy around the word “story.” In the brain injury community it seems to refer to the date, time, location,…

  • Criptiques Podcast

    Listen to this post:  I’m inviting everyone to listen to a very candid podcast. So candid that I ended up using very, shall we say, adult language many times without realizing it or remembering it. If you follow the link, please be warned that I use quite a few cuss words because I got very…

  • Making some “crip”tiques

    Listen to this post:  Not everyone with a disability or impairment likes “crip” or wants to be called a crip or a krip. I deeply respect the reasons people give for why they want to be identified and described in a certain way. That said, most people I know would like to be identified by…