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Why Mask Portland: onsite and virtual open mic
Listen to this post: It is still so weird for me to see strangers’ faces in public, especially because they still don’t have access to my face. I’m now immunosuppressed. That means I’m always masked indoors unless I’m at home. Even outdoors, my mask goes on when people start moving in too close for my…
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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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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…
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2023 Including Disability Global Summit
Listen to this post: HopePunk: Persevering, Building Community, Chasing Hope Cool event announcement: Including Disability Global Summit! Online April 25-27, 2023 The theme for the 2023 Summit is a call for agitation: What can we do now so that the future is far better than the present for disabled people? This isn’t a conference focused…
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Pigeonhole Podcast 35: Rick Hammond in Blind Versus TBI (encore)
Listen to this post: I love doing the blast from the past encore episodes. My conversation with poet and musician Rick Hammond from nine years ago remains the most fun podcast recording I think I’ve ever done. If I remember correctly (which I’m sure is a ludicrous thing for me to say) I didn’t prepare…