Who Am I To Stop It

Tag: disability justice

  • 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…

  • Social model of disability for brain injury

    Listen to this post: I’ve read a lot about the social model of disability. In a nutshell, it’s an idea that disabilities are not weaknesses or faults caused by a person’s impairment. You might have an impairment, sure. The disability comes from the ways society is not built and run to have you participate in…

  • Film for education and advocacy

    Listen to this post: Not long ago, my brain injury made a decision for me: go on medical leave from my job as a speech therapist because I was too impaired to work. Um, awkward. Didn’t I just finish this degree where I learned how to help people with brain injury get back to their…

  • More behind the scene sneak peeks

    Listen to this post: I’ve started posting lots of photos from our film shoots on Facebook at www.facebook.com/WhoAmIToStopIt. Even if you don’t have a Facebook account, you can visit that page anytime to see even more pictures, read posts, and have a look at other disability arts and disability justice topics that I share on…

  • National Museum of Health and Medicine TBI arts exhibit sparks some controversy, but maybe just for me

    Listen to this post: I’ll by start saying I have not heard one lick of controversy about artist and TBI survivor Eliette Markhbein or about her arts exhibit at the National Museum of Health and Medicine called “WHACK’ed … and then everything was different.” Her art is really pretty, and her unique process is very…