Tag: Paul K. Longmore Institute on Disability

  • Superfest Disability Film Festival 2024

    Listen to this post: Move over, pumpkin spice. Move over to my own birthday. It’s Superfest season, my favorite time of the year! This year is the 38th festival of the longest-running disability film festival, and it marks an exciting new collaboration. This year, the festival is co-presented by the Longmore Institute on Disability and…

  • “Patient No More” from Paul K. Longmore Institute on Disability

    Listen to this post: One of the dangers of awareness-raising campaigns is that once the rally, day, week, or month for a certain topic has passed, it can be forgotten. The backs on the pins break, the t-shirts fade and get holes in them, the flyers get trashed. And who has time for brain injury…

  • Spotlight on Disability Film Festivals: Superfest Dissies

    Listen to this post: If you haven’t recognized by now that my sense of humor is often pretty dark, wry, self-deprecating, and politically motivated, I’ll just let you know now that it is. I will critique anything you put in front of me and have fun doing it. At this point, critiquing things around disability…