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Listen to this post: This podcast episode is not about my grandma, but it is about a grandma with a grill. Sara M. Acevedo’s grandma who used to make wonderful food on the grill for Sara back home in Colombia when she was growing up. You’ll hear more soon about the POD Access project that […]By Cheryl Green
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Listen to this post: (Podcast audio is at the bottom of the page.) A few years ago, I went to the Oregon Coast Aquarium in Newport. Here’s a yellow boxfish I found there in a temporary display. I just know this one is playing hide and seek with me. But then? After the boxfish? I […]By Cheryl Green
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Pigeonhole Podcast Episode 46: Tacos…or something
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Listen to this post. (The podcast audio is at the bottom of the page.) I love to eat and hate to cook. That about sums up my life. Oh, that and I went to New York last week, my first trip out of the city where I live in three-and-a-half years. Why yes, I did […]By Cheryl Green
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Pigeonhole Podcast 45: Nefertiti Matos Olivares in Three Chapters (with coffee)
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Listen to this post (podcast is at the bottom of the post): Did you ever meet that person where you’re like, oh, yes, you. Yep. You. The person where you have some important stuff in common or share political views or a love of neat sounds or they will indulge your cat obsession while not […]By Cheryl Green
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Listen to this post (the podcast is at the bottom): I found an old, scrappy video I made of Lavaun a decade ago. She was developing a project to do stories about colors. As an artist with low vision, she never stopped wondering about the best ways to bring a color description to life so […]By Cheryl Green
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Pigeonhole Podcast 43: Corn, Bagels, and Captions
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Listen to this post. (The podcast is at the bottom of the post.) I found a cute meme that has screenshots from a movie in which these two young white people are having a conversation on a sunny day outside by some very tall grass. The guy looks either puzzled or flirtatious, then the girl […]By Cheryl Green
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Pigeonhole Podcast 42: Stinky Chicken Dog 2
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Listen to this post: (The podcast audio is at the bottom of the post.) Jenni Funk and I collaborated on Stinky Chicken Dog 2 in 2018. The film got an enthusiastic reception at our Portland premiere and at Superfest a few years ago. It’s long past time I took down the password to bring this […]By Cheryl Green
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Pigeonhole Podcast 41: Playful Apparitions with Carmen Papalia
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Listen to this post (podcast is at the bottom of the post): It’s one thing to keep a secret when you feel like you’d be ashamed for anyone else to know this thing about you. But sometimes you keep a story to yourself because you figure no one will get it. Or that they might […]By Cheryl Green
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Pigeonhole Podcast 40: The Low Bar Chorale at Home
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Listen to this post: (podcast audio at the bottom of the page) A love letter to Portland singalong band The Low Bar Chorale and band leader Ben Landsverk. Took nearly a year to write. I’m not sure what time is anymore anyway. Downloadable transcript for Pigeonhole Podcast Episode 40By Cheryl Green
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Pigeonhole Podcast 39: Disabled Podcasters’ Project Project
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Listen to this post: I can’t name stuff! I think back with a big old cringe to some projects and films I’ve tried to name, and I’m so grateful to amazing people like my co-director Cynthia Lopez for intervening when a name was really bad. But right now, I’m so excited to share something that’s […]By Cheryl Green
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Listen to this post: (podcast audio is at the bottom of the page.) Lately, there’s a growing push to make accessibility more creative, and I think it’s just rad! In fact, some of the major players at FWD-Doc (Documentary Filmmakers with Disabilities) are presenting at this year’s SXSW a panel called Creativity Enhanced: Documentary Tools […]…
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Pigeonhole Podcast 37: When can I cuss again?
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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 with Microsoft Word’s dictate feature! But there’s a darker side to this, or rather, Microsoft […]…
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Listen to this post: Today, a couple of audio described super short films I made in summer 2020 at Sunflower Farm. I’ve been volunteering there since shortly after the pandemic was declared. All of the organic produce and eggs get donated to food pantries and shelters, and the farm operates year-round on a fully-volunteer basis. […]…
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Pigeonhole Podcast 35: Rick Hammond in Blind Versus TBI (encore)
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Listen to this post: I love doing the blast from the past encore episodes. My conversation with poet and musician Rick Hammond from nine years ago remains the most fun podcast recording I think I’ve ever done. If I remember correctly (which I’m sure is a ludicrous thing for me to say) I didn’t prepare […]…
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Pigeonhole Podcast 34: AAC Voices and Talking About Audio Description
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Listen to this post: [Podcast audio is at the bottom of the post.] Following my 2019 episode about radio and disabled voices, today’s episode is about the way people describe synthesized voices. My guest, endever*, isn’t an audio describer, and we don’t get into Audio Description (AD) per se. But AD is what led me […]…
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Pigeonhole Podcast 33: Art for Brain Injury Awareness Month 2021
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Listen to this post: February, 2021. I can’t tell if it feels like it was yesterday or a year ago. Did we stop quipping that it’s still March 370th, 2020 yet? But just last month, I had the great honor and fun to be part of the Millersville University Disability Film Festival. They screened “Who […]By Cheryl Green
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Pigeonhole Podcast 32: Bittin Foster Duggan and Growing Through It
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Listen to this post (the podcast is at the bottom of the post): I really love re-airing pared down interviews from my early days of podcasting. This one was such a pleasure to listen to again after more than six years. I met my guest, Bittin, at a brain injury conference, in the before times, […]By Cheryl Green
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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 podcast or a show only for people who already know they’re interested in learning about [……
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Pigeonhole Podcast 30: AJ Murray on disability in the media (Encore)
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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 one, like this 2015 conversation with AJ Murray, and it turns out it’s evergreen after […]By Cheryl Green: Multimedia Artist, Disability Activist
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Pigeonhole 29: Introducing Down to the Struts
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Listen to this post: Phew! My own podcast has taken a backseat for me in the past few months, which is probably obvious based on the sudden lack of new content. I hope to return to producing new episodes this autumn or winter or sometime. I feel like we live in an endless today, with […]By Cheryl Green
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Pigeonhole Podcast 28: Leslie Gregory and Racism as a Public Health Crisis (encore)
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Listen to this post: This month, an encore broadcast of part of my 2016 interview with Leslie Gregory, a primary care provider and Portland-area leader in racial justice. She runs Right To Health, a non-profit that’s, “dedicated to addressing the unacceptable disparity in healthcare and outcomes in minority and uninsured communities.” We talked the…
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Pigeonhole Podcast 27: We have always loved access with Thomas Reid
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Listen to this post: The curb cut effect describes what happens when a technology or design that’s for access for deaf and disabled people works so great that everyone can and wants to use it. Like curb cuts! It’s not like you have to walk around a curb cut if you’re not a wheelchair or […]By Cheryl Green
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Disability Culture: Crip & Ally Care Exchange on Pigeonhole Podcast 26
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Listen to this post: [The podcast audio is at the bottom of the page.] Whether you identify with having a disability or impairment, a health condition, or are disabled, there are people wanting to collect your stories and document your process, your life, yours experiences in light of the pandemic. A lot of it is […]…
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Pigeonhole Podcast 25: Dedicated to Kathy Coleman
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Listen to this post: [Podcast audio is at the bottom of the page.] This isn’t how I ideally wanna share difficult and sad news. But, as death is inevitable, I feel value in discussing it. Over the weekend, Kathy Coleman, founder and Artistic Director of Disability Art and Culture Project died. To honor Kathy and […]…
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Pigeonhole Podcast 24: Lavaun Heaster and Paper Visions
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Listen to this post: Back in 2013, I made a short documentary film about my dear friend and colleague Lavaun Benavidez-Heaster called “Paper Visions.” It wasn’t formally audio described back then because I was so new to media and media accessibility. But Lavaun paved the way for me by actually audio describing parts of it as […]…
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Pigeonhole Podcast 23: Thomas Reid and DIY podcasting
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Listen to this post: Thomas Reid’s podcast, Reid My Mind Radio, is one of my faves, so it’s my huge honor and pleasure to have him on my show. Please also check out the Disability Visibility Podcast episode 52 where Thomas and Prince Bri of Power Not Pity talked to Alice Wong about their work […]By Cheryl Green
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Pigeonhole Podcast 22: Extended Interview with Jess Thom
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Listen to this post: [The podcast audio is at the bottom of the page.] Even though I’ve gotten out of the business of publishing long-form interviews, nearly all of the stories on the podcast still come out of long interviews. Sometimes I ask someone for a single story with lots of detail and background. Sometimes […]…
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Pigeonhole Podcast 21: Jess Thom of Touretteshero
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Listen to this post: I had the grand pleasure to interview Jess Thom over a year ago when she was in Portland to perform. If you’re not familiar with Jess’s work, pop over to Touretteshero.com to find pictures of Jess in her superhero costume. You can search the website for a catalogue of her Tourette’s […]…
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Pigeonhole Podcast 20: Gold Eye, Golden Dog
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Listen to this post: [The podcast audio is at the bottom of the post.] Meet Brandon and Chutney. Well, if you’ve been here before, you’ve met Brandon, star of “Who Am I To Stop It” and “Stinky Chicken Dog 2.” But you have to spend some time with him when Chutney’s around: sniffing the microphone, […]…
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Pigeonhole Podcast 19: Alice Wong on Good Radio Voices
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Listen to this post: [The podcast audio is at the bottom of the page.] This is a rebroadcast of a 2017 episode exploring the ableism behind deciding which voices are good enough to be on radio and which aren’t. Chenjerai Kumanyika wrote a beautiful manifesto about the effect of code-switching on him as he tried […]…
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Pigeonhole Podcast 18: Deafness, Disability, and Incarceration with Talila Lewis
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Listen to this post: [The podcast audio is at the bottom of the page.] Today’s episode is a rebroadcast of an interview I did with Talila TL Lewis in 2017. TL takes a critical, much-needed look at issues around ableism, audism, sanism, and racism in the carceral system. We only talked briefly about HEARD (Helping […]…
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Pigeonhole Podcast 17: Autoethnographic poetry
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Listen to this post: [The podcast is at the bottom of the post.] The Trauma Survivors Network community celebrates National Trauma Survivors Day on May 16th. One of the reasons this network got started was research that says it’s not how bad a traumatic injury is that tells you how difficult recovery will be. It’s […]…
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Pigeonhole Podcast 16: Housing Justice Panel
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Listen to this post: Back in September, 2018, we had a housing justice and accessible housing panel at Independent Living Movie Night. This month’s podcast presents part of the panel discussion that happened after the film screenings. Why do I keep posting about this? Because even as we continue to take steps toward understanding and […]…
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Pigeonhole Podcast 15: The Disabled Caregiver
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Listen to this post: A story of culture, chronic illness, disability, love, and rye bread. Nancy Sanchez gives a glimpse into the many layers of ableism in her life, from being called a faker as a child to people saying that caring for her sick father later in life was making her too sick to […]By Cheryl Green
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Listen to this post: A few years ago, my friend, Taylor, and I sat down to talk–and ultimately laugh–about what we might have in common as people with invisible disabilities that affect how we think and process and organize and emote. For today’s episode, I excerpted the highlights of our conversation that had been published […]…
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Pigeonhole Podcast 13: The first Stinky Chicken Dog
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Listen to this post: This month’s episode is another documentary film in audio form including the Audio Description. In anticipation of the premiere of Jenni Funk’s “Stinky Chicken Dog 2” on December 15th, here is the original “Stinky Chicken Dog.” She didn’t add a “1” in the title because we didn’t expect to make more […]…
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Listen to this post: In 2010, Representative Sara Gelser wrote a guest column describing the history and horrors of Fairview Hospital and Training Center. Please note: her column contains graphic descriptions of abuse and quotations from Fairview survivors and staff. Representative Gelser’s column appears alongside photos of the site after it was c…
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Pigeonhole Podcast Episode 11: Intersectional Gender Equity in Arts (Encore)
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Listen to this post: [The podcast audio is at the bottom of the post.] This is an encore presentation of a 2017 interview with Jane Vogel of Advance Gender Equity in the Arts (AGE) and filmmaker Gigi Williams. Advancing equity is not the same as increasing diversity. I’ve talked to people who genuinely celebrate being […]…
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Pigeonhole Podcast 10: Disability, Accessibility and Housing Justice
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Listen to this post: [The podcast audio is at the bottom of the page.] When you think about accessible housing, what comes to mind first? For many people, it’s structural pieces like ramps in place of stairs, grab bars in the bathroom, lower counters and cupboards, and other kinds of physical designs. I’ll ask you […]…
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Listen to this post: I’m headed down to San Antonio later today, in fact, to lead a storytelling workshop at the Texas Brain Injury Conference. And I’ve been exasperated lately with people telling me what my story is and how to tell it. Nowhere is it actually written that a TBI story is required to include gory details of a wreck or any […]…
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Pigeonhole Podcast 8: Lavaun Benavidez-Heaster on not smiling
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Listen to this post: [The podcast episode is at the bottom of the page.] Tatyana Fazlalizadeh created a campaign in 2012 called “Stop Telling Women to Smile” in response to street harassment. I love the campaign. It was relevant then and just as much today, unfortunately. Add to the conversation disability, and you get Sarabjit Parmar’s experience …
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Pigeonhole Podcast 7: Colleen and Her Guide Dog
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Listen to this post: [The podcast episode is at the bottom of this page.] Meet Colleen and her guide dog, Joplin, our first episode in a series of stories from people with their working dogs. Here they are, snuggling. Colleen runs the Blind Inspirationcast with the goal of “changing the world’s perspective regarding visual impairments through motiv…
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Listen to this post: (Podcast audio is at the bottom of the post.) Happy May Day, everyone. Don’t forget: President Eisenhower attempted to turn this labor organizing day into a national “Loyalty Day” celebration where people were supposed to reaffirm their love for and loyalty to the U.S. and its “heritage of freedoms.” Odd choice […]…
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Listen to this post: [The podcast audio is at the bottom of the post.] Some people can really relate to flippant comments like, “Yeah, this place is accessible. It only has two stairs.” Or, “We could just get a sign language student to volunteer to interpret our event to save some money” Or, “It’s not […]…
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Pigeonhole Podcast Episode 4: Free Our People Festival
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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 […]…
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Pigeohole Podcast Episode 3: Refugees with disabilities
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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 […]…
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Pigeonhole Podcast Episode 2: Disabled at the 2018 Women’s March
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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 […]…
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Listen to this post: [The podcast episode is at the bottom of the post.] Here we are! The new podcast is alive. It’s a Pigeonhole, and this is just a brief promo episode to say hi. Music in this episode: “Refraction” by Podington Bear. (Source: freemusicarchive.org. Licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 3.0 International Licen…
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