On Disability & Monsters

Paul Giamatti’s CHINWAG with Stephen Asma

Treefort Media & Touchy Feely Films

History, Society & Culture, Science

4.9 • 2K Ratings

🗓️ 17 July 2024

⏱️ 70 minutes

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🦾🐕‍🦺🦻🏼 On this riveting Chinwag, Paul and Stephen speak to Riva Lehrer, an award-winning artist, writer, and curator with an unconventional approach to portraiture. Together they explore the nuances of living with a disability, stigma, defining beauty, and the complexities of human interactions. Riva shares the importance of representation and the burden of standing out in a world that often overlooks diversity. Talk then turns to “inspiration porn”, reclaiming narratives, and an overview of what language is pejorative when discussing the disabled population. In true Chinwag fashion, the conversation moves to Frankenstein, and Riva’s connection with Mary Shelley's monster and the concept of the golem, a protective creature made from clay. And of course, stay tuned for an incredible ghost story from Riva’s haunted school-hood days. We’re Chinwaggin’ over here! Paul Giamatti is an award-winning actor and producer, and the self-proclaimed Emperor of Neptune. Stephen Asma is a professor and author specializing in the philosophy of science, religion, and art. He also is the acting Minister of Triton for the Chinwag. Riva Lehrer is an award-winning artist, writer and curator who focuses on the socially challenged body. She is the author of the memoir Golem Girl, and her work has been featured at the Smithsonian’s National Portrait Gallery, Yale University, and The United Nations. For more information, visit rivalehrerart.com. 🦾🐕‍🦺🦻🏼 ========= Make sure to follow us @chinwagpod 👉🏼 IG: https://www.instagram.com/chinwagpod/ Tik: https://www.tiktok.com/@chinwagpod Website: http://chinwagpod.fm YT Channel: https://www.youtube.com/@chinwagpod Send your stories, Qs, or thoughts to 📧 questions [at] chinwagpod [dot] fm ========= Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	You're going to be. Gen-Wag on the line.
0:13.0	Gen-Wag on the line. Gen Wagg.
0:23.2	Welcome to the Chinn.
0:24.9	Every time I just start cracking up.
0:27.4	I know why.
0:28.4	There's something funny about it.
0:29.8	I think because you give me this look like, uh, like we're about to enter like an old-time radio play and it's going to be there's a lot of stakes involved.
0:38.4	That's awesome. I don't know why it just cracks me up.
0:40.3	Well that's an odd thing. Yeah, it is a little bit like suddenly we're on the air. We gotta have something that's an odd thing. Yeah, it is a little bit like, suddenly we're on the air.
0:43.8	We gotta have something to say and we gotta go.
0:45.9	And it is interesting.
0:47.4	It's very interesting.
0:48.0	We don't have a script exactly.
0:49.4	So it's always like, there's no net.
0:50.9	We sure don't.
0:51.9	If anybody thinks we do do if we had any
0:54.2	appearance of having a script it would be it would be really deceitful I've
0:59.3	never quite worked so without a without a net before in my life as we do on this thing.
1:04.7	It's a high-level improvisation here.
1:07.0	It really kind of is.
1:08.5	Yeah, it's multi-dimensional chess improvisation is what we're talking.
1:12.2	Multidimensional chess.
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