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How to Be Wrong January 31, 2023

Otherness, Disability, and Beauty

A Conversation with Pulitzer finalist Chloé Cooper Jones

Chloé Cooper Jones

Hosted by John Kaag and John Traphagan
This episode of How To Be Wrong is about humility, beauty and the ways in which our society dictates the nature and boundaries of what is deemed beautiful. We talk …

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Interviews with scholars of disability about their new books.

Anthropology January 24, 2023

Undocumented Motherhood

Conversations on Love, Trauma, and Border Crossing

Elizabeth Farfán-Santos

Hosted by Reighan Gillam
Claudia Garcia crossed the border because her toddler, Natalia, could not hear. Leaving behind everything she knew in Mexico, Claudia recounts the terror of migrating alone with her toddler and …
Peoples & Things January 22, 2023

Deafness “Cures” in History

A Conversation with Jaipreet Virdi

Jaipreet Virdi

Hosted by Lee Vinsel
Jaipreet Virdi talks about her book Hearing Happiness: Deafness Cures in History with Peoples & Things host Lee Vinsel. The book details the long history of attempts to “fix” deaf people …
Jewish Studies January 11, 2023

The Lives of Jessie Sampter

Queer, Disabled, Zionist

Sarah Imhoff

Hosted by Ari Barbalat
In The Lives of Jessie Sampter: Queer, Disabled, Zionist (Duke UP, 2022), Sarah Imhoff tells the story of an individual full of contradictions. Jessie Sampter (1883-1938) was best known for her …
Darts & Letters December 26, 2022

"Medical Assistance in Dying" (MAID)

A Discussion of the Ethics of Dying in Canada

Trudo Lemmens and Derryk Smith

Hosted by Gordon Katic
Is medical assistance in dying, or MAID letting the government off the hook from providing what they should be providing? Should we respect people's choices on harm reduction grounds, even …
Law December 3, 2022

The Spaces of Mental Capacity Law

Moving Beyond Binaries

Beverley Clough

Hosted by Jane Richards
This book cuts new ground, challenging the assumption of law as an objective concept. It draws out the way that binary frameworks situate and create the notion of the individual in …
Japanese Studies November 29, 2022

Blind in Early Modern Japan

Wei Yu Wayne Tan

Hosted by Jingyi Li
While the loss of sight—whether in early modern Japan or now—may be understood as a disability, blind people in the Tokugawa period (1600–1868) could thrive because of disability. The blind …
Disability Studies November 24, 2022

Queer Silence

On Disability and Rhetorical Absence

J. Logan Smilges

Hosted by Sohini Chatterjee
In queer culture, silence has been equated with voicelessness, complicity, and even death. Queer Silence: On Disability and Rhetorical Absence (U Minnesota Press, 2022) insists, however, that silence can be …
Disability Studies November 18, 2022

Disability in Contemporary China

Citizenship, Identity and Culture

Sarah Dauncey

Hosted by Shu Wan
In Disability in Contemporary China: Citizenship, Identity and Culture (Cambridge UP, 2022), Sarah Dauncey offers the first comprehensive exploration of disability and citizenship in Chinese society and culture from 1949 to …
Catholic Studies November 17, 2022

Where Paralytics Walk and the Blind See

Stories of Sickness and Disability at the Juncture of Worlds

Mary Dunn

Hosted by Brenna Moore
In our age of biomedicine, society often treats sickness and disability as problems in need of solution. Phenomena of embodied difference, however, have not always been seen in terms of …
Critical Theory November 14, 2022

Black Madness :: Mad Blackness

Therí Alyce Pickens

Hosted by Clayton Jarrard
In Black Madness :: Mad Blackness (Duke UP, 2019), Therí Alyce Pickens rethinks the relationship between Blackness and disability, unsettling the common theorization that they are mutually constitutive. Pickens shows how …
African American Studies November 1, 2022

The Resistance, Persistence and Resilience of Black Families Raising Children with Autism

Elizabeth Drame, Judy Nardi, Tara Adams, and Veronica Nolden ·

Hosted by Ari Barbalat
The Resistance, Persistence and Resilience of Black Families Raising Children with Autism (Peter Lang, 2020) presents nuanced perspectives in the form of counternarratives of what Black families who have children …
Disability Studies October 24, 2022

Reframing Disability in Manga

Yoshiko Okuyama

Hosted by Shu Wan
Reframing Disability in Manga (University of Hawaii Press, 2020) analyzes popular Japanese manga published from the 1990s to the present that portray the everyday lives of adults and children with disabilities …
Law October 24, 2022

Deprivation of Liberty in the Shadows of the Institution

Lucy Series

Hosted by Jane Richards
Dr Lucy Series Deprivations of Liberty in The Shadows of the Institution (Bristol University Press, 2022) is one that I have long been looking forward to reading, and it did not disappoint. Series …
Disability Studies October 20, 2022

Being Seen

One Deafblind Woman's Fight to End Ableism

Elsa Sjunneson

Hosted by Ari Barbalat
As a Deafblind woman with partial vision in one eye and bilateral hearing aids, Elsa Sjunneson lives at the crossroads of blindness and sight, hearing and deafness--much to the confusion …
Disability Studies October 12, 2022

Black Disability Politics

Sami Schalk

Hosted by Sohini Chatterjee
In Black Disability Politics (Duke UP, 2022) Sami Schalk explores how issues of disability have been and continue to be central to Black activism from the 1970s to the present …
LGBTQ+ Studies September 29, 2022

Queer and Trans Madness

Struggles for Social Justice

Merrick Daniel Pilling

Hosted by Clayton Jarrard
In Queer and Trans Madness: Struggles for Social Justice (Palgrave Macmillan), Merrick D. Pilling urges those invested in social justice for 2SLGBTQ people to interrogate the biomedical model of mental …
Disability Studies September 14, 2022

Disability Rights and Religious Liberty in Education

The Story Behind Zobrest V. Catalina Foothills School District

Bruce J. Dierenfield and David A. Gerber

Hosted by Shu Wan
In 1988, Sandi and Larry Zobrest sued a suburban Tucson, Arizona, school district that had denied their hearing-impaired son a taxpayer-funded interpreter in his Roman Catholic high school. The Catalina …
Disability Studies September 9, 2022

The Life Worth Living

Disability, Pain, and Morality

Joel Michael Reynolds

Hosted by Autumn Wilke
The Life Worth Living: Disability, Pain, and Morality (U Minnesota Press, 2022) investigates the exclusion of and discrimination against disabled people across the history of Western moral philosophy. Building on …
Disability Studies August 5, 2022

Elusive Kinship

Disability and Human Rights in Postcolonial Literature

Christopher Krentz

Hosted by Autumn Wilke
Dr. Christopher Krentz is an Associate Professor at the University of Virginia, where he has a joint appointment with the departments of English and American Sign Language. He is also …