Pigeonhole: Recent Episodes
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Disabled artist Ariel Baska has a special love for Freddy Kruger and making horror films, both fiction and non-fiction. Check out their festival Access:Horror. Transcript and show notes at https://wp.me/p4NTVf-2Ir
Photographer Sara J. Winston's exhibition called Our body is a clock is an incredible series of self-portraits from her infusion sessions for a chronic illness. She talks with Cheryl about photos, smiles, and stories of healing.
Cheryl's reporting on Oregon brokerages and people with developmental disabilities in prison for the 70 Million podcast in 2019.
Photographer Sara J. Winston's exhibition called Our body is a clock is an incredible series of self-portraits from her infusion sessions for a chronic illness. Here excerpts of an artist talk and how Cheryl relates her own experiences at the infusion center to what's captured in Sara's photos.
Part 2 of a two-parter called Art Imitates Sick Imitates Life. I talk to immunocompromised actress Jenn Covington and film director Aaron Abolt about their film Existing Patient, audio describing the film, and the impact of authentic representation of illness on screen.
Part 1 of a two-parter called Art Imitates Sick Imitates Life. It's about my experiences watching a few films that depict chronic illness right at the time my very own begins to unfold. And it includes cats.
Introduction to the upcoming POD Access website, online library, and the POD Access Podcast: Connecting d/Deaf and disabled podcasters to audiences and each other.
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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. […]
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 […]
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 […]
Because some people use synthesized voices to communicate every day, can we talk about synthesized voices in Audio Description without negative commentary on AAC users?