Tag: traumatic brain injury

  • The Brain Injury Peer Visitor Association

    Listen to this post: As you know, one reason we’re making “Who Am I To Stop It” is because people with brain injuries are so often isolated. The documentary gives more people a chance to get their stories and experiences out to the public. And it asks viewers to reflect on the ways that our fascination with…

  • Storytelling, telling stories, and stories to tell

    Listen to this post: This fall is totally story time! I want to let you know about a couple different things happening that are super different. What ties them together is story, the power of story, and creating a space where disabled–and other marginalized–people are centered and their stories given attention. First off is a…

  • Isolation, art, and transformation after brain injury

    Listen to this post: I wanted to take a some time to sort of unpack this film for you. The meaning of the film and my own politics around disability have changed and grown in the two years we’ve been working on it, which you might not know. If you’ve been following for a while, you might notice…

  • Dumb: A comic about a voice gone missing

    Listen to this post: If there’s one “compliment” that irks me, it’s when extroverted disabled people or people with access and resources are called The Voice For The Voiceless when they talk about disability rights, justice or inclusion. (Note: I put “compliment” in quotation marks because that’s how I show that it’s intended to be…

  • An Injury For Life by Liam O’Brien on RTÉ

    Listen to this post: If there’s one thing I consume more than documentary movies, it’s radio documentaries. My visual system sometimes gets overloaded, or I get distracted from listening while I’m looking at a movie. So radio documentaries are the perfect thing to keep me constantly learning about other people, situations, societies and cultures. Just today,…