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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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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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Asserting a New Vision for the Revolutionary Body at Lewis and Clark
Listen to this post: This workshop! All the info below is from Lewis and Clark’s description of an upcoming workshop led by Patty Berne with in-person facilitation by Nomy Lamm. We all have some relationship to what is considered the “normal” or the “non-normative” body, and it’s likely a relationship laced with assumptions, judgement, and…
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Pigeonhole Podcast Episode 2: Disabled at the 2018 Women’s March
Listen to this post: [The podcast episode is at the bottom of the post.] We just had lots of women’s marches. And while they’re an important and valuable event, they’re not without their problems. Emily Ladau wrote on The Establishment last year about the same old broken record of “forgetting” that disability rights are rights…
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I do not advocate killing disabled people
Listen to this post: Trigger Warning: Murder and rape of disabled people and Peter Singer. I could have just put “Trigger Warning: Peter Singer.” If you have the fortitude, please read on and assist my community in amplifying protests against eugenicists. In early April, my social media caught on fire with proud Autistic advocates and…