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Disability Studies
Interviews with scholars of disability about their new books.
November 16, 2024
People with Dementia at the Heart of Research
People with dementia are uniquely qualified to discuss the challenges of their condition and the features of effective support, but their voices are a…
October 27, 2024
How to Tell When We Will Die
The long-awaited essay collection from one of the most influential voices in disability activism that detonates a bomb in our collective understanding…
October 21, 2024
Kids Across the Spectrums: Growing Up Autistic in the Digital Age
Peoples & Things host, Lee Vinsel, talks with Meryl Alper, Associate Professor of Communication Studies at Northeastern University, about her recent b…
October 19, 2024
Fitter, Happier
Fitter, Happier: The Eugenic Strain in Twentieth-Century Cancer Rhetoric (U Alabama Press, 2024) is a thought-provoking exploration of the relationshi…
September 9, 2024
Disability, Infrastructure, and London's Public Transport System
Peoples & Things host, Lee Vinsel, talks to Raquel Velho, Associate Professor of Science and Technology Studies at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, a…
September 7, 2024
Menace to the Future
In Menace to the Future: A Disability and Queer History of Carceral Eugenics (Duke UP, 2024), Jess Whatcott traces the link between US disability inst…
August 28, 2024
Creating a Person-Centered Library
Creating a Person-Centered Library: Best Practices for Supporting High-Needs Patrons (Bloomsbury, 2023) provides a comprehensive overview of various s…
August 13, 2024
Asylum Ways of Seeing
Asylum Ways of Seeing: Psychiatric Patients, American Thought and Culture (University of Pennsylvania Press, 2021) by Dr. Heather Murray is a cultura…
August 11, 2024
Yoga, Disability, and Animism
In this episode, Dr Pierce Salguero sits down with Dr Theodora Wildcroft, a researcher, anthropologist, and long-time teacher of what she calls “post-…
August 10, 2024
Advertising Disability
Ella Houston's book Advertising Disability (Routledge, 2024) invites Cultural Disability Studies to consider how advertising, as one of the most ubiqu…
July 29, 2024
Sign Language Brokering in Deaf-Hearing Families
Emily Pacheco speaks with Professor Jemina Napier (Heriot-Watt University, Scotland) about her book, Sign Language Brokering in Deaf-Hearing Families …
July 27, 2024
Applied Global Health Humanities
Fella Benabed's book Applied Global Health Humanities: Readings in the Global Anglophone Novel (de Gruyter, 2024) highlights the importance of global …
July 23, 2024
Disability Works
In 1967, the US government funded the National Theatre of the Deaf, a groundbreaking rehabilitation initiative employing deaf actors. This project ali…
July 10, 2024
Storming Bedlam
Mental health care and its radical possibilities reimagined in the context of its global development under capitalism. The contemporary world is over…
July 6, 2024
Spaces on the Spectrum
Movements that take issue with conventional understandings of autism spectrum disorder, a developmental disability, have become increasingly visible. …
June 26, 2024
The Disabled Will
John T. Maier's The Disabled Will: A Theory of Addiction (Routledge Press, 2024) defends a comprehensive new vision of what addiction is and how peopl…
June 21, 2024
Animated Film and Disability
While many live-action films portray disability as a spectacle, "crip animation" (a genre of animated films that celebrates disabled people's lived ex…
June 18, 2024
Travelers to Unimaginable Lands
If you’ve ever worked with dementia patients before, you know how unique and bizarre the experience can be, and how little the stereotypes actuall…
June 17, 2024
Test Subjects
Season Two erupts in our ears with a film-noir soundscape—an eerie voice utters strange and disjointed phrases and echoing footsteps lead to sirens an…
May 31, 2024
The House with All the Lights on
Emily Pacheco speaks with writer and researcher Jessica Kirkness about her memoir, The House with All the Lights on: Three Generations, One Roof, a La…