EP178: Disability is Not a Bad Word
Let's Talk About It With Taylor Nolan
Wave Podcast Network
3.4 • 2.6K Ratings
🗓️ 26 August 2021
⏱️ 66 minutes
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Summary
Taylor talks to Melissa Blake, disability advocate, writer, and soon-to-be author, about her experience as a disabled person. Melissa shares why it’s so important for folks to listen to disabled people and why she thinks disabled is not a bad word. They talk about the representation and visibility of disabled people in movies, social media, and dating apps. Melissa shares what it's been like for her to date as a disabled person and what her hopes are for the next generations.
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| 0:00.0 | Hello and welcome to Let's Talk About It. This is your host Taylor and today we are having |
| 0:09.8 | a guest who I have been wanting to have on the podcast for quite a while now. So I am |
| 0:14.6 | so excited and as you all know I love talking about things that are a little bit taboo, things |
| 0:20.5 | that don't get as much attention, mainstream and wanting to just amplify and bring more |
| 0:25.8 | light to the marginalized communities, to the groups of people that are often afterthoughts. |
| 0:32.7 | And so today we are going to get into disability activism, disability justice and could not |
| 0:39.9 | be more fricking pumped to have Melissa Blake on the podcast today. She's a freelance writer |
| 0:46.5 | covering relationships, disability issues and pop culture. She's written for CNN, Washington |
| 0:51.7 | Post, Glamour, Cosmo, New York Times, Health and Good Housekeeping and a bunch of others. |
| 0:58.5 | She's amazing to follow on Instagram, major fan of SVU, which I'm right there with you |
| 1:04.0 | girl. And I really hope to continue doing more episodes like this. We have only in my |
| 1:10.3 | memory had one episode focused on disability a few maybe last year with the crutches |
| 1:17.8 | and spice on Instagram and loved during that episode and really wanted to do more of |
| 1:23.6 | this. So really excited to have Melissa Blake on and evolve that said, let's talk about |
| 1:29.6 | it. |
| 1:30.6 | All right. So welcome to this show, Melissa. Thank you so much for being here. |
| 1:40.4 | Well, thank you so much for having me. I'm so excited to be here and talk about disabilities |
| 1:45.6 | and something that I don't think people talk about enough. Yeah. |
| 1:49.0 | Which is why there's so many misconceptions and so much evils and so many issues that |
| 1:56.0 | we need to talk about. Yeah, absolutely. And I'm super, super pumped to get into all this |
| 2:01.1 | today because you're right. It's not something that gets talked about a lot. It's something |
| 2:04.3 | that a lot of people feel a ton of discomfort around. And I'm wondering if we can start off |
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