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Pigeonhole Podcast 30: AJ Murray on disability in the media (Encore)
Listen to this post: [The podcast is at the bottom of the post.] Sometimes I do these interviews, and it feels like they’re so set in the moment that they won’t hold up down the road. But then you find one, like this 2015 conversation with AJ Murray, and it turns out it’s evergreen after…
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Pigeonhole Podcast 17: Autoethnographic poetry
Listen to this post: [The podcast is at the bottom of the post.] The Trauma Survivors Network community celebrates National Trauma Survivors Day on May 16th. One of the reasons this network got started was research that says it’s not how bad a traumatic injury is that tells you how difficult recovery will be. It’s…
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“The Way We Talk” documentary film about stuttering by Michael Turner
Listen to this post: Listen, folks! We have more phenomenal art and storytelling from the inside. And it needs to get funded! Michael Turner has had his work screened on OPB and at the Oregon Heritage Conference. He won “Best Documentary” at The Teeny Tiny Film Festival in 2012. His new feature length film, “The…
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Hope is Not A Plan Documentary
Listen to this post: Yesterday, we had a lovely time at the ADA Moving Forward celebration in downtown Portland. We talked about how far we’ve come and how far we have yet to go to achieve equity for disabled folks. But at least we have an ADA. Many countries have nothing like it. I just…
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Creating art lets the left brain rest
Listen to this post: Kris Haas is having another artist reception to sell her art and raise funds for her USA Projects fundraiser on June 22nd. I’ll be in Olympia with the crew filming Dani for the documentary. I hope everyone reading this who can get there will go! Details on this public Facebook event page. Lynn…