Pigeonhole

Pigeonhole episodes:

• 03.22.2024

  Seahorse

  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.

  
• 08.27.2023

  Pigeonhole Podcast Episode 46: Tacos…or something

  So many stories about food from disabled community. Now, with bagels, Klezmer, and tacos or something.

  
• 04.06.2023

  Pigeonhole Podcast 45: Nefertiti Matos Olivares in Three Chapters (with coffee)

  Long distance coffee dates and the power of texting to grow a friendship.

  
• 02.07.2023

  Pigeonhole Podcast 44

  Legally blind paper-cut artist Lavaun Benavidez-Heaster dives deep into what the color red feels and sounds like to her.

  
• 01.10.2023

  Pigeonhole Podcast 43: Corn, Bagels, and Captions

  Auto-caption fails have been celebrated for their comedic possibilities for years. I want people to laugh and be enraged by bad captions, or craptions. Go on a sound journey with me about corn, bagels, and so much more as I...

  
• 11.01.2022

  Pigeonhole Podcast 42

  Jenni Funk explores the complex relationships between people with disabilities and their animals with grace and humor. Jenni uses a ProLoQuo2Go.

  
• 09.01.2022

  Playful Apparitions

  Sometimes you keep a story to yourself because you figure you're never gonna hear the sweet and soothing words, "Yeah, I have that too!" Today, Carmen Papalia, playful apparitions, and hallucinations.

  
• 07.17.2022

  Pigeonhole Podcast 40: The Low Bar Chorale at Home

  Some of the things being done differently since the pandemic are just they way they should be done. If that’s something you already knew, come sing along with me and The Low Bar Chorale.

  
• 06.02.2022

  Pigeonhole Podcast 39

  Thomas Reid and Cheryl Green are starting a new project for Deaf and disabled podcasters to find each other and audiences. Fill out the survey to help us start our database at https://bit.ly/PODAccess.

  
• 03.12.2022

  May Be Image of Cup

  Cheryl reads the AI-generated image descriptions from Microsoft and social media to demonstrate how weird and useless they are to people who could really use them. Add image descriptions to your posts, people!

  
• 12.06.2021

  Pigeonhole Podcast 37

  Listen to this post: Built-in accessibility in mainstream software is amazing. It’s nice to not have to purchase new apps or software if you don’t think you’re going to be using the feature long term. I’m writing this right now...

  
• 10.05.2021

  A couple audio described micro-short documentaries made at Sunflower Farm. 94 tons of compost. Chickens with feathery legs pecking for snacks. Enhanced transcript at https://wp.me/p4NTVf-26k.

  A couple audio described micro-short documentaries made at Sunflower Farm. 94 tons of compost. Chickens with feathery legs pecking for snacks. Enhanced transcript at https://wp.me/p4NTVf-26k.

  
• 08.09.2021

  Rick Hammond and Blind Versus TBI

  Blind poet, musician, and hilarious guy Rick Hammond talks media representation andsociety's low expectations, plus has a few rousing matches of blind versus TBI in the Disability Olympics.

  
• 07.12.2021

  AAC Voices and Talking About Audio Description

  Because some people use synthesized voices to communicate every day, can we talk about synthesized voices in Audio Description without negative commentary on AAC users?

  
• 03.31.2021

  Art for Brain Injury Awareness Month 2021

  Singer, author, naturopath, and public speaker Toni Hickman joins art historian, painter, and professor Ann Millet-Gallant on a panel with Cheryl Green to talk about art and brain injury after screening "Who Am I To Stop It."

  
• 02.07.2021

  Bittin Foster Duggan and Growing Through It

  Bittin Foster Duggan sustained a severe TBI at 21 years of age. Decades later, she's using art for community-building and self-empowerment in her Growing Through It workshops.

  
• 12.11.2020

  Pigeonhole Podcast 31: Welcome to AAC Town

  Listen to this post: I’m beyond delighted to introduce you to another disabled-created and hosted podcast, AAC Town. AAC stands for alternative and augmentative communication, which they define in many ways across the episodes. But this isn’t just a technical...

  
• 10.27.2020

  AJ Murray on disability representation in the media

  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...

  
• 10.06.2020

  Pigeonhole 29: Introducing Down to the Struts

  Introducing a new podcast on disability and design by Qudsiya Naqui called Down to the Struts.

  
• 07.10.2020

  Pigeonhole Podcast 28

  Encore presentation of Leslie Gregory and Right To Health calling for the CDC to declare racism a public health threat. Transcript: https://wp.me/p4NTVf-1Z0

  
• 05.11.2020

  Pigeonhole Podcast 27: We have always loved access with Thomas Reid

  Blind audio artist Thomas Reid talks to Cheryl about audio description and image description on social media. During the COVID-19 pandemic-induced move to a digital world, blind people are being excluded even more. Transcript: https://wp.me/p4NTVf-1Yr.

  
• 04.01.2020

  Disability Culture: Crip & Ally Care Exchange on Pigeonhole Podcast 26

  Sandie Yi and Cheryl start a meeting for the Crip & Ally Care Exchange and spontaneously end up documenting their encounter through audio.

  
• 02.17.2020

  Dedicated to Kathy Coleman

  Honoring the late disabled artist Kathy Coleman with an encore release of a 2014 interview about disability art and culture.

  
• 02.09.2020

  Pigeonhole Podcast 24

  An audio-described version of "Paper Visions," a short documentary film about legally-blind visual artist Lavaun Benavidez-Heaster on accessible art, entrepreneurship, and community.

  
• 01.06.2020

  PH 23

  Blind podcaster and sound designer Thomas Reid shares about the origins of his podcast, Reid My Mind Radio, and where he hopes to take the show.

  
• 12.06.2019

  Pigeonhole Podcast 22: Extended Interview with Jess Thom

  Extended Interview: Jess Thom of Touretteshero talks about disability, tics, supports, segregation, and how the arts can catalyze change. Transcript at WhoAmIToStopIt.com.

  
• 11.15.2019

  Pigeonhole Podcast 21: Jess Thom of Touretteshero

  Jess Thom of Touretteshero talks about disability, tics, supports, segregation, and how the arts can catalyze change.

  
• 09.07.2019

  Gold Eye, Golden Dog

  Brandon got a service dog after his traumatic brain injury. We meet them and find out how joyful their life is together.

  
• 08.01.2019

  PH 19 Alice Wong on Good Radio Voices

  (Encore) Podcaster and disability activist Alice Wong talks about the lack of disabled voices on radio, what makes a "good" radio voice, and what excluding disabled people from media means.

  
• 05.01.2019

  Deafness, Disability, and Incarceration with Talila Lewis

  Talila TL Lewis discusses the intersections of racism, ableism, audism, and sanism in the school to prison pipeline and the United States carceral system. Rebroadcast.

  
• 04.01.2019

  PH 17

  Douglas Kid shares autoethnographic poetry and ponders surviving a severe TBI and surviving the dissonance of reclaiming your identity.

  
• 03.01.2019

  Disability and Housing Justice Panel

  Disability justice and housing justice activists on a panel discuss the affordable, accessible housing crisis and solutions in the Portland Metro area and Multnomah County.

  
• 02.12.2019

  PH 15

  Nancy Sanchez shares a story of Sicilian culture, chronic illness, disability, family, love, and rye bread.

  
• 01.08.2019

  Pigeonhole Podcast 14: ADD fun (encore)

  Talking about an affirmative disability identity with ADD, and making ADD and TBI jokes from the inside.

  
• 12.06.2018

  The first Stinky Chicken Dog

  "Stinky Chicken Dog" is a micro-short documentary made by Jenni Funk, a nonspeaking woman with special needs. The film explores the complex relationship of disability and isolation, of past trauma and loving a companion animal.

  
• 11.05.2018

  Pigeonhole Podcast 12: After Fairview

  "After Fairview," a short anti-institutionalization documentary portrait of Portland disability rights activist Linda Gheer. Audio Description by Mhairi Morrison.

  
• 10.06.2018

  Pigeonhole Podcast 11

  Jane Vogel and Gigi Williams talk about advancing intersectional gender equity in the arts and eliminating sexual violence in society. Recorded on the inauguration day of 45 in 2017.

  
• 09.07.2018

  Pigeonhole Podcast 10: Disability, Accessibility and Housing Justice

  Disability justice and housing justice activists share experiences around institutionalization and independent living in the community.

  
• 07.22.2018

  A nap and a bird

  Brain injury storytelling has to include gory details of a wreck, right? Nope. This intimate story takes you on a journey from Cheryl's brain injury to meeting an unexpected neighbor with something uncanny in common.

  
• 07.03.2018

  Women with disabilities not smiling

  Legally blind, mixed blood artist Lavaun Heaster takes an intersectional look at being told she should smile more.

  
• 06.03.2018

  Colleen and Her Guide Dog

  Colleen Connor introduces us to her Seeing Eye dog, Joplin, and how she builds her personal and working relationship with this beautiful dog.

  
• 05.01.2018

  Pigeonhole Podcast 6: May Day and the Moon

  Growing up, did you have to get a job to help support yourself or your family? Did you know about people who remind you of yourself who held jobs you wanted? Did you know about barriers to employment like discrimination,...

  
• 04.03.2018

  Transcripts for Radio and Podcasts

  Why should we transcribe radio and podcasts? For audiences, that's why. Get first-hand experiences from people who rely on transcripts to access audio content and dig in to what messages it sends when shows don't strive for access.

  
• 03.06.2018

  Audio Version of In My Home

  An audio version of In My Home, the 2017 1st prize winner of the Free Our People Film Contest and Festival from Center for Disability Rights New York State.

  
• 02.06.2018

  Refugees with Disabilities

  Refugees with disabilities, Saara Hirsi and Abdi Mohamed, give a panel presentation through Portland's Disability Art and Culture Project and the Dis/Representation Program. They also work with the REAL Project and African Youth and Community.

  
• 01.28.2018

  Pigeonhole Podcast Episode 2: Disabled at the 2018 Women’s March

  Disabled activist and writer Caitlin Wood shares her speech from the Fayetteville, Arkansas Women's March.

  
• 01.05.2018

  Welcome to the Pigeonhole Podcast

  A new disability culture-focused podcast: Pigeonhole. Stories, interviews, and ideas from a community that won't sit where society puts us. Disability identity, culture, and art.