669 - How We Talk About Disability
Public Health On Call
The Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health
4.6 • 644 Ratings
🗓️ 2 October 2023
⏱️ 17 minutes
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Summary
How we talk about disability frames the way we view the importance of access. The Accessible Stall podcast co-hosts Emily Ladau and Kyle Kachadurian talk about disability a lot in episodes covering everything from pre-peeled fruit and lingerie to health care and ableism. Today, they join the podcast to talk with Lindsay Smith Rogers about why authentic representation of disability is so critical to designing policies and spaces that serve everyone.
To explore the resources recommended in this episode, visit the links below:
Demystifying Disability: What to Know, What to Say, and How to be an Ally by Emily Ladau
Disability Visibility: First-Person Stories from the Twenty-First Century by Alice Wong
Being Heumann: An Unrepentant Memoir of a Disability Rights Activist by Judith Heumann, with Kristen Joiner
Loud Hands: Autistic People, Speaking by Julia Bascom
Squirmy and Grubs (YouTube channel)
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to Public Health On Call, a podcast from the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, |
| 0:05.9 | where we bring evidence, experience, and perspective to make sense of today's leading health challenges. |
| 0:16.3 | If you have questions or ideas for us, please send an email to public health question at jh. |
| 0:22.6 | That's public health question at jh.edu for future podcast episodes. |
| 0:31.6 | This is Lindsay Smith Rogers. Today we're talking about disability and specifically how we talk about disability. |
| 0:39.2 | Disability rights activists Emily LaDow and Kyle Cacadorian are co-hosts of the podcast, |
| 0:44.7 | The Accessible Stahl, where they challenge the notion that disability is something that needs to be fixed or cured. |
| 0:51.1 | We discuss some examples of systemic progress when it comes to inclusion and accessibility |
| 0:55.3 | and some areas where that progress has stalled. This episode was co-produced by Elisa Rosen. |
| 1:02.1 | Let's listen. Emily and Kyle, thank you so much for making the time to be on public health on call |
| 1:08.6 | to talk about your work with the accessible stall podcast. |
| 1:13.4 | So I'd like to start out maybe with you, Emily, telling us about the story behind the title of |
| 1:19.1 | your podcast. Where did it come from? Sure. So back in 2016, which I can't believe it when I say |
| 1:27.3 | how long it's been at this point, we were batting |
| 1:31.4 | around the idea of starting a podcast. And I joked that people always come together for |
| 1:37.5 | conversation in the bathroom. You know, when you're all just washing your hands at the sink |
| 1:42.1 | and you're just chatting and you have some revelation |
| 1:45.7 | about life while you're grabbing the paper towels or whatever it is. And so we thought, |
| 1:50.5 | what more welcoming way to bring everybody into the conversation than all hanging out in the |
| 1:56.5 | accessible stall? And it kind of took off from there and has since turned into us taking |
| 2:03.3 | photos and accessible stalls whenever we have the opportunity. So it's become a little bit of a |
| 2:08.6 | silly thing. But it's really just meant to be welcoming and conversational and everybody can be a part |
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