Nefertiti Matos Olivares

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 […]

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

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 […]

Pigeonhole Podcast 44

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 […]

Pigeonhole Podcast 43: Corn, Bagels, and Captions

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 […]

Pigeonhole Podcast 42

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 […]

Playful Apparitions

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 40

Pigeonhole Podcast 40: The Low Bar Chorale at Home

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 […]

Pigeonhole Podcast 39

Listen to this post: 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 for Smarter, More Accessible Storytelling. What I love about […]

May Be Image of Cup

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 […]

Pigeonhole Podcast 37

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. […]

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.

Stories and ideas from a community that won’t sit where society puts us: Disability identity, culture, and art. Transcripts at WhoAmIToStopIt.com

Rick Hammond

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 […]

Rick Hammond and Blind Versus TBI

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 […]

AAC Voices and Talking About Audio Description

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 […]

Art for Brain Injury Awareness Month 2021

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, […]

Bittin Foster Duggan and Growing Through It

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 […]

Pigeonhole Podcast 31: Welcome to AAC Town

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 […]

AJ Murray on disability representation in the media

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 […]

Pigeonhole 29: Introducing Down to the Struts

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 then about […]

Pigeonhole Podcast 28

Thomas Reid

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 […]

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

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 […]

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

This podcast is a part of the movement of in disability culture which rejects medical analyses of our lives, or reduces us to inspirational victims of tragedy. The political urgency for an intersectional disability lens in social justice movements boils under the surface of each episode.  This podcast is not only well-produced and edited but it is also transcribed, which which demonstrates this podcaster’s commitment to access. So excited for more to come!

Much-Needed Perspective

This is a great series. The host does a wonderful job of balancing guests, including many people from inside world of disability - with a focus on people with disabilities themselves. Stories like these are too few and too far between, and this podcast is a welcome addition! Well worth downloading, subscribing, and checking out the other projects of the host and her guests.

Excellent Podcast!

Stories and ideas from a community that won’t sit where society puts us: Disability identity, culture, and art. Transcripts at <a href="http://WhoAmIToStopIt.com" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">WhoAmIToStopIt.com</a>

Pigeonhole

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 […]

The first Stinky Chicken Dog

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 […]

Pigeonhole Podcast 11

Talila Lewis

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 […]

Deafness, Disability, and Incarceration with Talila Lewis

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, […]

Gold Eye, Golden Dog

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 motivational […]

Colleen and Her Guide Dog

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 […]

Pigeonhole Podcast 10: Disability, Accessibility and Housing Justice

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 […]

Pigeonhole Podcast 6: May Day and the Moon

Alice Wong

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 […]

PH 19 Alice Wong on Good Radio Voices

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