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Pigeonhole
by Cheryl Green: Multimedia Artist, Disability Activist
Stories and ideas from a community that won’t sit where society puts us: Disability identity, culture, and art. Transcripts at WhoAmIToStopIt.com
Episodes
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Pigeonhole Podcast 57: Welcome to Everything Is RouRou
What happens when two disabled podcasters who love to improvise, and love cats, brainstorm podcast ideas? Jonathan Paradox meant to have a bad idea, but they created the upcoming season on Pigeonhole called Everything Is RouRou.
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Pigeonhole Podcast 56: Accessing Horror with Ariel Baska
Listen to this post: [The podcast audio is at the bottom of the page.] Building on Episode 55 and Alice Wong’s ghost, I talk to queer disabled horror and documentary filmmaker Ariel Baska about their relationship to horror films, the intersection of horror and disability, and, of course, Alice...
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Pigeonhole Podcast 55: The Alice Wong
An ode to the late Alice Wong.
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Pigeonhole Podcast 54: Infusion Photos Part Two: Sara J. Winston
Listen to this post (the podcast episode is at the bottom): Be sure to check out Infusion Photos Part One: I Walk In. Might be nice to do them in order, but it probably doesn’t matter. In this episode, Sara and I chat to follow up on her exhibition and artist talk at Blue Sky […]
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Pigeonhole Podcast Episode 53: When Disability Requires a Different Approach from 70 Million
Listen to this post: (The podcast episode is at the bottom of the page.) In 2019, I produced a story called When Disability Requires a Different Approach for the 70 Million podcast and hadn’t shared it. I would like to produce an episode on a social issue and have that episode be irrelevant even...
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Pigeonhole Podcast 52: Infusion Photos, Part one: I Walk In
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.
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Pigeonhole Podcast 51: Art Imitates Sick Imitates Life Part 2
Listen to this post: [The podcast audio is at the bottom of the post.] You heard from me a lot last month. Now you’ll hear from Jenn and Aaron in our conversation about Existing Patient and what it means to make a film that’s so personal, intimate, and real. There’s a few f-bombs in the […]
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Pigeonhole Podcast 50: Art Imitates Sick Imitates Life Part 1
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.
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Pigeonhole Podcast 49: Introducing the POD Access Podcast
Listen to this post: Wow. I only released two podcast episodes in 2024. I was starting to feel sad because I used to be working on an episode all the time and publishing monthly. But I’m not sad because what I have been working on is another podcast! Pigeonhole is not going away, and I […]
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My Grandma's Grill
Dr. Sara Acevedo reflects on her grandma's grill, the loss of connection to her childhood foods, and a changing, chronically ill body.
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Seahorse
I have a seahorse stim, and this audio described film I shot on my iPhone at the Oregon Coast Aquarium years ago on a whim is a window in.
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Pigeonhole Podcast Episode 46: Tacos…or something
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 […]
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Pigeonhole Podcast 45: Nefertiti Matos Olivares in Three Chapters (with coffee)
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 […]
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Pigeonhole Podcast 44
Legally blind paper-cut artist Lavaun Benavidez-Heaster dives deep into what the color red feels and sounds like to her.
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Pigeonhole Podcast 43: Corn, Bagels, and Captions
Auto-caption fails have been celebrated for their comedic possibilities for years. I want people to laugh and be enraged by bad captions, or craptions. Go on a sound journey with me about corn, bagels, and so much more as I play with bad captions.
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Pigeonhole Podcast 42
Jenni Funk explores the complex relationships between people with disabilities and their animals with grace and humor. Jenni uses a ProLoQuo2Go.
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Playful Apparitions
Sometimes you keep a story to yourself because you figure you're never gonna hear the sweet and soothing words, "Yeah, I have that too!" Today, Carmen Papalia, playful apparitions, and hallucinations.
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Pigeonhole Podcast 40: The Low Bar Chorale at Home
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
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Pigeonhole Podcast 39
Thomas Reid and Cheryl Green are starting a new project for Deaf and disabled podcasters to find each other and audiences. Fill out the survey to help us start our database at https://bit.ly/PODAccess.
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May Be Image of Cup
Cheryl reads the AI-generated image descriptions from Microsoft and social media to demonstrate how weird and useless they are to people who could really use them. Add image descriptions to your posts, people!
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Desire Path: Dreaming Access Art, a virtual but real event
Listen to this post: Desire Paths Have you noticed or been on a desire path before? They beg to be used and used again. That’s the heart of what they are and how they come to be paths at all. They’re defiant and efficient DIY marvels that happen anywhere they can. They oppose the urban […]
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Pigeonhole Podcast 37
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...
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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.
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...
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ADA31 Lead On Celebrize! Celebrate & Recognize Non-Apparent Disabilities
Listen to this post: I’ve been to a few celebrations to honor the Americans with Disabilities Act anniversary over the years. I bet for people who’ve never been, they figure we sit around and say that laws are cool. But that’s not what those events are! They include stories of continued ableism…
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Rick Hammond and Blind Versus TBI
Blind poet, musician, and hilarious guy Rick Hammond talks media representation andsociety's low expectations, plus has a few rousing matches of blind versus TBI in the Disability Olympics.
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AAC Voices and Talking About Audio Description
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?
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Cascadia Behavioral Health’s annual Heart event + “Who Am I To Stop It”
Listen to this post: Cascadia’s annual Heart event illuminates the intersection of art and mental health with a focus on women. This annual event brings together a network of supporters, artists, and storytellers who are committed to reducing the stigma of mental health by supporting activities...
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Art for Brain Injury Awareness Month 2021
Singer, author, naturopath, and public speaker Toni Hickman joins art historian, painter, and professor Ann Millet-Gallant on a panel with Cheryl Green to talk about art and brain injury after screening "Who Am I To Stop It."
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Bittin Foster Duggan and Growing Through It
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, […]
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Pigeonhole Podcast 31: Welcome to AAC Town
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...
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AJ Murray on disability representation in the media
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 […]
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Pigeonhole 29: Introducing Down to the Struts
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 […]
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Access Reframed Panels
Listen to this post: I’m so excited to be invited to be on a panel alongside some real powerhouses in filmmaking and film distribution, including several of my beloved colleagues from New Day Films! You’ve read it here many times before that I don’t like doing accessibility just to meet legal...
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Pigeonhole Podcast 28
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…
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Pigeonhole Podcast 27: We have always loved access with 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 […]
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Disability Culture: Crip & Ally Care Exchange on Pigeonhole Podcast 26
Sandie Yi and Cheryl start a meeting for the Crip & Ally Care Exchange and spontaneously end up documenting their encounter through audio.
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Pigeonhole Podcast 25: Dedicated to Kathy Coleman
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...
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Pigeonhole Podcast 24: Lavaun Heaster and Paper Visions
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...
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PH 23
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 […]
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Pigeonhole Podcast 22: Extended Interview with Jess Thom
Extended Interview: Jess Thom of Touretteshero talks about disability, tics, supports, segregation, and how the arts can catalyze change. Transcript at WhoAmIToStopIt.com.
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Pigeonhole Podcast 21: Jess Thom of Touretteshero
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...
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Gold Eye, Golden Dog
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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PH 19 Alice Wong on Good Radio Voices
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...
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Deafness, Disability, and Incarceration with 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 A. Lewis in 2017. Talila takes a critical, much-needed look at issues around ableism, audism, sanism, and racism in the carceral system. We only talked briefly...
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PH 17
Douglas Kid shares autoethnographic poetry and ponders surviving a severe TBI and surviving the dissonance of reclaiming your identity.
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Disability and Housing Justice Panel
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…
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Who Am I To Stop It at Pacific University
Listen to this post: More exciting screening news! We’re really happy to be invited to the Pacific University campus to screen “Who Am I To Stop It” on March 4th. One thing that makes Pacific extra cool for us is that Brandon, one of the film’s stars, has been working for a few years at […]
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PH 15
Nancy Sanchez shares a story of Sicilian culture, chronic illness, disability, family, love, and rye bread.
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Pigeonhole Podcast 14: ADD fun (encore)
Talking about an affirmative disability identity with ADD, and making ADD and TBI jokes from the inside.
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The first Stinky Chicken Dog
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...
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Stories and ideas from a community that won’t sit where society puts us: Disability identity, culture, and art. Transcripts at WhoAmIToStopIt.com
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Pigeonhole is created and hosted by Cheryl Green: Multimedia Artist, Disability Activist.
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