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Tag: Disability Art and Culture Project

  • 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…

  • Disability Art and Culture Project and Heavy Load

    Listen to this post:  You ever heard of that rule about treating others the way you want to be treated? I heard a great take on it last night:  treat others how they want to be treated. This is really a big, recurring theme on this blog. Yet I’d never thought about it in terms…

  • Disability Art and Culture Project’s Sex, Love and Disability III fundraiser and local arts

    Listen to this post:  Getting started with planning early! It’s been quite a while since I wrote about the Disability Art and Culture Project, so here we go! 2014 is going to bring us to the 6th Disability Pride Arts and Culture Festival and the 3rd Sex, Love and Disability Fundraiser event. (The festival is…

  • Short films of fiction and truth

    Listen to this post:  We had a great premiere of the three new short films, “The Tablet Shorts, Out.” It was one of the most diverse audiences I’ve had at one of my screenings. One really exciting thing for me as the producer? There were fewer people in the audience with brain injury than people…

  • Dis/Representation: Reading Into Disability live poetry reading with William L. Alton

    Listen to this post:  We’ve done it again! Cross-disability stuff and mixed media stuff! First off: Dis/Representation, a disability justice literature project by Disability Art and Culture Project, Portland Community College Disability Services, GimpGirl Community, and other community partners. Each month, we read and discuss blog posts, articles, poetry and short fiction. They cover the…