Pigeonhole

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 Wong’s ghost. Special bonus: There’s an […]

An ode to the late Alice Wong.

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 […]

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 before it […]

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.

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 […]

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.

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 […]

Dr. Sara Acevedo reflects on her grandma's grill, the loss of connection to her childhood foods, and a changing, chronically ill body.

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.

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 […]

Legally blind paper-cut artist Lavaun Benavidez-Heaster dives deep into what the color red feels and sounds like to her.

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.

Jenni Funk explores the complex relationships between people with disabilities and their animals with grace and humor. Jenni uses a ProLoQuo2Go.

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.

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

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.

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!

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 […]

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’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 in the face […]

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.

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?