Pigeonhole

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Listen to this post: Check out the Real Choice Initiative Open House this Thursday, March 29th and get to know this great new non-profit. Real Choice Initiative is about housing justice focused on disability access. It’s a peer-led movement: people with disabilities supporting others with disabilities to find and get accessible, affordable housing. This isn’t […]

Listen to this post: [The podcast audio is at the bottom of the post.] Here’s an audio-only version of my short documentary “In My Home.” This was made for the Free Our People Film Contest and Festival in 2017, and it continues to be a reminder of the anti-institutionalization movement that’s so important for disability […]

Listen to this post: Even more exciting work coming from Portland’s disability art and social justice organization, DACP. “GET REAL”: An interactive work-in-progress forum theater about employment and economic justice. Join Disability Art and Culture Project to learn about economic justice for people with disabilities in Oregon through forum theater, and cultivate REAL change for our […]

Listen to this post: Content Notice: This post is specifically about sexual violence against disabled people, but it won’t contain graphic information. Read or not, according to your needs. First off, can I just say that if you come across Rooted in Rights‘ name on anything, it’s going to be stellar? OK, I said it. […]

Listen to this post: [The podcast episode is at the bottom of the post.] Disability Art and Culture Project is the only disability and social justice arts organization in Portland, and every year, the work gets more involved and more exciting. This is a recording of the Dis/Representation panel from November 30, 2017, “Immigrants and […]

Listen to this post: [The podcast episode is at the bottom of the post.] We just had lots of women’s marches. And while they’re an important and valuable event, they’re not without their problems. Emily Ladau wrote on The Establishment last year about the same old broken record of “forgetting” that disability rights are rights […]

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.

Listen to this post: My website and email got hacked recently, and it’s been a hassle and time suck to try to get back in order. (If you got 10,000 spam emails from me, it wasn’t me. But I’m sorry nonetheless.) On the phone with six tech support people, when I finally got to the […]

Listen to this post: Are you in Rochester, NY? If you are, can I come and see you? Because I’m thrilled to say that I’ll be there August 7th for the Free Our People Film Festival put on by Center for Disability Rights in New York State. There’s kind of two ways I think about […]