Episode Transcripts

Arts and Media Mini Series

• Sista Creatives Rising

Season 10

• Season 10 Trailer

• Episode 1: Making the ADA with Chai Feldblum

• Episode 2: Reporting the Disability Rights Movement with Joe Shapiro

• Episode 3: Disability and Punishment with Professor Jamelia Morgan

• Episode 4: Disability Justice is Trans Justice with Ericka Dixon and Sebastian Margaret

• Episode 5: Disability Cultural Centers with Dagny Brown and Mika Weissbuch

• Episode 6: Disability and Journalism in India with Priti Salian

• Bonus episode part 1: Blind Birding with Jerry Berrier

• Audio essay: We Are Not Okay…and We Will Keep Resisting

Listener favorite recasts

• Recast: When Driving Is Not an Option (Season 9)

• Recast: Access: a Love Story (Season 8)

• Recast: In the Country of the Blind (Season 7)

• Recast: Empowered interdependence with Haben Girma (Season 6)

• Recast: All Our Families (Season 5)

• Recast: Judy Heumann Reflects on the Disability Revolution (Season 4)

• Recast: Intersectionality and Algorithmic Bias (Season 3)

• Recast: Designing Access for Disabled Students (Season 2)

• Recast: The Language of Disability (Season 1)

Season 9

• Season 9 Trailer

• Episode 1: When driving is not an option with Anna Zivarts

• Episode 2: An accessible camping adventure with Qudsiya

• Episode 3: Voting accessibly with Dessa Cosma and Kenia Flores

• Episode 4: On blindness and justice with David Tatel

• Episode 5: Disabled women and economic justice with Marissa Ditkowsky

• Episode 6: Employment and disability with Amir Rahimi

• Bonus: Disability and dance with Kayla Hamilton

• Trailer: introducing POD Access

• Trailer: Contra* Season 4 and Remote Access Archive

Season 8

• Bonus: Getting to know Qudsiya Naqui

• Season 8 Trailer

• Episode 1: Access: a love story

• Episode 2: Putting the ‘cool’ in disability culture with Day Al-Mohamed

• Episode 3: Disability glam at the GRAMMYs with Lachi

• Episode 4: Disability data justice with Bonnie Swenor

• Episode 5: Disabled entrepreneurs with Diego Mariscal

• Episode 6: Navigating crisis with Justice Shorter

• Bonus: Libraries transform communities with ALA president Emily Drabinski

Season 7

• Ten Thousand Things: Alice Wong (External link)

• Season 7 Trailer

• Episode 1: Creating space in politics with New Disabled South's Dom Kelly

• Episode 2: Disability News from Around the World with Peter Torres Fremlin

• Episode 3: Exploring Disabled Power with Power Not Pity's Bri Joy Moore

• Episode 4: Going Beyond Awareness with Diana Pastora Carson

• Episode 5: Disability and climate justice with Áine Kelly-Costello

• Episode 6: Understanding What Is Unseen with Set Hernandez and Pedro

• Bonus: In the Country of the Blind with Andrew Leland

Season 6

• Season 6 Trailer

• Episode 1: CripGoing Beyond Awareness with Diana Pastora Carsonping Culture (with Andraéa LaVant)

• Episode 2: Embodying the Body with Bhavna Mehta

• Episode 3: Empowering Disabled Refugees with Mustafa Rfat

• Episode 4: Disabled in Space with NASA’s Denna Lambert

• Episode 5: Disabled Gaming with May Wong

• Episode 6: Empowered Interdependence with Haben Girma

• Bonus: Remembering Judy Heumann: Reflections on the Disability Revolution

Season 5

• Season 5 Trailer

• Episode 1: RAMPD Up: music and disability (with Precious Perez)

• Bonus: Disability and Reproductive Freedom (with Sara Luterman)

• Episode 2: All Our Families (with Jennifer Natalya Fink)

• Episode 3: Disability and the Federal Judiciary (with Mamadi Corra)

• Episode 4: Change Makers (with Lou Paniccioli)

• Episode 5: Accessing Employment Opportunity (with Eli Dvorkin)

• Episode 6: Disability and the creative process (with Michael A. Williams)

• Bonus: Disability as Freedom (Equal Justice Works panel)

Season 4

• Season 4 Trailer

• Episode 1: Reflections on the Disability Revolution (with Judy Heumann)

• Episode 2: Sitting Pretty (with Rebekah Taussig)

• Episode 3: Disability Solidarity (with Sandy Ho)

• Episode 4: Disabled in Court (with Erika Rickard)

• Episode 5: Artificial Divide (with Robert Kingett)

• Episode 6: Disabled Podcasters Unite! (with Cheryl Green and Thomas Reid)

• Bonus: Just Human (with Arielle Silverman)

Season 3

• Season 3 Trailer

• Episode 1: The Year of the Tiger (with Alice Wong)

• Episode 2: Making Voting Accessible (with Lisa Schur and Doug Kruse)

• Episode 3: Intersectionality and Algorithmic Bias (with Lydia X.Z. Brown)

• Episode 4: Access and Inclusion in the Workplace (with Kathy Martinez)

• Episode 5: Disabled Reality: Survivor’s First Deaf Contestant (with Christy Smith)

• Episode 6: Accessing the Halls of Government (with Stephanie DeLuca)

Season 2

• Season 2 Trailer

• Episode 1: Law, Policy, and Disabled Immigrants

• Episode 2: Critical Design in the Age of Covid

• Episode 3: Designing Access for Disabled Students

• Episode 4: Disability-Positive Education

• Episode 5: Physicians, Disabled Patients, and Healthcare Access

• Episode 6: Black Disabled Lives Matter

• Bonus: Behind the Scenes of Down to the Struts

Season 1

• Season 1 Trailer

• Episode 1: Getting Wise About Disability

• Episode 2: The Language of Disability

• Episode 3: Unfair Nation: 'Access-ABLE-ity'

• Episode 4: Let’s Play Goalball

• Episode 5: WOC World

• Episode 6 Part 1: Accessing the Arts (Charlie Miller)

• Episode 6 Part 2: Accessing the Arts (Nicole Sardella)

• Bonus: Accessing the News