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Cheryl Green from WhoAmIToStopIt.com interviews artists, activists, and cultural critics with brain injuries and other disability identities.

SFTB 065 12/04/2017

SFTB 065 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. /episode/index/show/storiesfromthebrainreels/id/6010188

SFTB 064 11/06/2017

SFTB 064 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. /episode/index/show/storiesfromthebrainreels/id/5916884

SFTB 063 10/02/2017

SFTB 063 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. /episode/index/show/storiesfromthebrainreels/id/5797816

SFTB 062 08/03/2017

SFTB 062 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. /episode/index/show/storiesfromthebrainreels/id/5607726

SFTB 061 07/05/2017

SFTB 061 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. /episode/index/show/storiesfromthebrainreels/id/5510237

SFTB 060 06/01/2017

SFTB 060 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. /episode/index/show/storiesfromthebrainreels/id/5409406

SFTB 059 05/11/2017

SFTB 059 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.) /episode/index/show/storiesfromthebrainreels/id/5345842

SFTB 058 03/23/2017

SFTB 058 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. /episode/index/show/storiesfromthebrainreels/id/5197406

SFTB 057 02/28/2017

SFTB 057 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. /episode/index/show/storiesfromthebrainreels/id/5125280

SFTB 056 02/02/2017

SFTB 056 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. /episode/index/show/storiesfromthebrainreels/id/5049906

SFTB 055 01/02/2017

SFTB 055 Social justice engineer, activist-attorney, and founder of HEARD (Helping Educate to Advance the Rights of Deaf Communities) Talila "TL" Lewis on disability solidarity and Deaf justice. /episode/index/show/storiesfromthebrainreels/id/4957032

SFTB 053 10/10/2016

SFTB 053 Independent media artists Elaine Velasquez and Barbara Bernstein joined me to talk about their food justice film, "Gaining Ground," on KBOO Community Radio's Bread and Roses feminist news and public affairs show. /episode/index/show/storiesfromthebrainreels/id/4732771

SFTB 054 09/30/2016

SFTB 054 I talk with blind illustratrix Sabine Rear and installation artist Arianna Warner, who has invisible disabilities, about crip comics, crip zines, and how to create, archive, and talk about disability and accessibility in comics. /episode/index/show/storiesfromthebrainreels/id/4708152

SFTB 052 09/01/2016

SFTB 052 Critical disability studies student Michael Miller talks about his brain tumor, neuroplasticity, culture, and neurojustice. /episode/index/show/storiesfromthebrainreels/id/4636592

SFTB 051 08/08/2016

SFTB 051 Gigi Williams, Ashley Nichole Williams, and Dori Lyon talk about "Angela's Sacred Heart," ending violence and sexual assault, and women's empowerment. /episode/index/show/storiesfromthebrainreels/id/4575210

SFTB 050 07/06/2016

SFTB 050 Theater artist and filmmaker Sue Perlgut talks about her work in the original feminist theater collective in the 1970s to today's multi-media storytelling work. /episode/index/show/storiesfromthebrainreels/id/4496266

SFTB 049 06/02/2016

SFTB 049 Leslie Gregory, primary care provider, founder, and president of discusses racism as a public health threat and what we can do to heal as a nation. /episode/index/show/storiesfromthebrainreels/id/4414435

SFTB 048 02/29/2016

SFTB 048 Cathy Sparkes and Sam Simpson are speech-language therapists and counselors who run a practice called intandem in the UK. They work mostly with stutterers and people with brain injury, and they use a Social Model of Disability and social justice approach. /episode/index/show/storiesfromthebrainreels/id/4183349

SFTB 047 01/21/2016

SFTB 047 Anne Tillinghast and I chat again about The Backstrokes in this mini-cast. Also, disabled activist Laura Hershey's poem "You Get Proud By Practicing." /episode/index/show/storiesfromthebrainreels/id/4092552

SFTB 046 01/04/2016

SFTB 046 The founder, volunteers, and members of The Backstrokes play music and talk about music, aphasia, and life after stroke. /episode/index/show/storiesfromthebrainreels/id/4054479

SFTB 045 12/23/2015

SFTB 045 Keith Scholz, of Bus Riders Unite, and Jared Franz, former Policy Director, talk about OPAL Environmental Justice, transit justice, gentrification, and thoughtful civic engagement. /episode/index/show/storiesfromthebrainreels/id/4034203

SFTB 044 12/15/2015

SFTB 044 This month I talk briefly about some great developments around recognizing and following up around concussion (mild TBI) in youth sports and domestic violence situations. /episode/index/show/storiesfromthebrainreels/id/4018346

SFTB 043 11/02/2015

SFTB 043 Poet and facilitator E Amato talks with me about unapologetic feminism, trauma, healing, art, and social justice. She writes for The Body Is Not An Apology and coaches writers. /episode/index/show/storiesfromthebrainreels/id/3915640

SFTB 042 10/07/2015

SFTB 042 Documentary film director Mike Turner talks about his new film "The Way We Talk," which explores his lifelong stuttering, the stuttering community, and where stuttering comes from. /episode/index/show/storiesfromthebrainreels/id/3847523

SFTB 041 09/15/2015

SFTB 041 Blogger Jackie Pilgrim shares a series of moving stories about powerful relationships with animals from childhood to the present. /episode/index/show/storiesfromthebrainreels/id/3801379

SFTB 040 09/04/2015

SFTB 040 Producer Theodore James and performer AJ Murray talk about disability representation in the media and their documentary "Becoming Bulletproof." /episode/index/show/storiesfromthebrainreels/id/3780252

SFTB 039 08/05/2015

SFTB 039 I talk with four people from Brain Energy Support Team (BEST) in Washington State. It's an amazing peer-led non-profit offering support groups, socializing, arts, and training for getting back to a satisfying life after brain injury. /episode/index/show/storiesfromthebrainreels/id/3718443

SFTB 038 07/24/2015

SFTB 038 A new short storytelling segment. I share a true story about finding a sense of disability community with a chicken and a young child. /episode/index/show/storiesfromthebrainreels/id/3693444

SFTB 037 07/01/2015

SFTB 037 Sonya Lea and Richard Bandy have a memoir, "Wondering Who You Are," looking at love, sex, relationship, marriage, and identity after severe brain injury and memory loss. /episode/index/show/storiesfromthebrainreels/id/3649417

SFTB 036 06/09/2015

SFTB 036 Sarahjoy Marsh, yoga therapist and teacher, talks about yoga for social justice, healing, and self-leadership. We talk about her personal work and teacher trainings in correctional facilities for inmates with disabilities. /episode/index/show/storiesfromthebrainreels/id/3606394

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