storiesfromthebrainreels's podcast
The finale of the podcast has some stories about how and why I started the show. Also, an invitation to the upcoming new disability culture podcast Pigeonhole by me.
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Three Portland performers present a panel "Centering Our Voices: Perspectives from Working Actors with Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities" for the annual TCG conference. Music by The Sisters of Invention.
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Colleen Connor, Associate Director of Audio Description Training Retreats and proprietress of Blind Inspirationcast is this month’s guest. She tells stories about getting her first guide dog, Joplin, from The Seeing Eye, earlier this year.
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Devin Febrroriello, Kat Meow Garcia, and Kai Tillman talk about feminist perspectives to filmmaking classes and the film industry. Summer 2017, Open Signal and XRAY TV collaborated on Reel Voices, a camp for female and non-binary youth.
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What do we lose when we have a narrow view of what makes a good radio voice? Who is excluded? Why do we make these choices? Disability Visibility Project founder Alice Wong talks diversifying radio by including actually disabled voices on the air.
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Vilissa Thompson, LMSW talks about #DisabilityTooWhite, #BlackDisabledGirlMagic, Black Disabled Woman Syllabus, Ramp Your Voice!, and other intersectional empowerment work for disability community with a focus on Black disabled women.
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Audio from a presentation AJ Murray and I gave at the Disability As Spectacle conference through UCLA's Disability Studies program. We talk about Black, disabled sexuality in US fiction film. (Hint: It's not there.)
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Autistic, Mestiza Colombian disability justice activist and scholar Sara Maria Acevedo joins me to talk about social justice and how feminism continues to leave out disability. We talk about community building through disability pride and care.
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For National Brain Injury Awareness Month, two short stories. I talk about the harm in blaming concussions for people's political views, and Joan Miller talks about inspiration, community, and the funny side of TBI.
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Jane Vogel of Age & Gender Equity in the Arts and filmmaker Gigi Williams talk about upcoming Unconscious Bias: Achieving Gender Equity symposium. This is an intersectional gender equity event with presentations and performances.
info_outlineAnne Tillinghast and I chat again about The Backstrokes in this mini-cast. Also, disabled activist Laura Hershey's poem "You Get Proud By Practicing."