Listen to this post: [The podcast audio is at the bottom of the page.] Building on Episode 55 and Alice Wong’s ghost, I talk to queer disabled horror and documentary filmmaker Ariel Baska about their relationship to horror films, the intersection of horror and disability, and, of course, Alice Wong’s ghost. Special bonus: There’s an […]

An ode to the late Alice Wong.

Listen to this post (the podcast episode is at the bottom): Be sure to check out Infusion Photos Part One: I Walk In. Might be nice to do them in order, but it probably doesn’t matter. In this episode, Sara and I chat to follow up on her exhibition and artist talk at Blue Sky […]

Listen to this post: (The podcast episode is at the bottom of the page.) In 2019, I produced a story called When Disability Requires a Different Approach for the 70 Million podcast and hadn’t shared it. I would like to produce an episode on a social issue and have that episode be irrelevant even before it […]

Photographer Sara J. Winston's exhibition called Our body is a clock is an incredible series of self-portraits from her infusion sessions for a chronic illness. Here excerpts of an artist talk and how Cheryl relates her own experiences at the infusion center to what's captured in Sara's photos.

Listen to this post: [The podcast audio is at the bottom of the post.] You heard from me a lot last month. Now you’ll hear from Jenn and Aaron in our conversation about Existing Patient and what it means to make a film that’s so personal, intimate, and real. There’s a few f-bombs in the […]

Part 1 of a two-parter called Art Imitates Sick Imitates Life. It's about my experiences watching a few films that depict chronic illness right at the time my very own begins to unfold. And it includes cats.

Listen to this post: Wow. I only released two podcast episodes in 2024. I was starting to feel sad because I used to be working on an episode all the time and publishing monthly. But I’m not sad because what I have been working on is another podcast! Pigeonhole is not going away, and I […]

Dr. Sara Acevedo reflects on her grandma's grill, the loss of connection to her childhood foods, and a changing, chronically ill body.

I have a seahorse stim, and this audio described film I shot on my iPhone at the Oregon Coast Aquarium years ago on a whim is a window in.