Good evening, Current Affairs Listeners. My name is Nathan Robinson. I am the editor of Current Affairs Magazine, and I am here tonight with Adam F. Not. Not.

Adam is a disabled activist in South Carolina, and he recently launched a disability rights project, Not Your Inspiration, which is at Not Your Inspiration.org.

And it started as an attempt to combat

what is called inspiration porn, which we'll discuss later. But it's also more than that. It's an

ambitious attempt to fuse socialist politics and disability politics. And Adam does this in a

very unique way, and I'm really excited to talk to him because of that. So

hello, Adam. It's nice to have you with us. Hey, Nathan. Thank you so much for having me on and

I'm excited to be here. I want to start with something that you've written a lot about and that

is, I think, an important grounding point for understanding disability politics.

And it's a concept that's been around for many decades, but I think is still really not internalized for most people.

And so let's begin with the medical model of disability and the social model of disability and the way that the social

model helps us reconceptualize what disability is. Sure. These are two complex things, but I'm going to

do my best to explain them. I'm sure that I will be corrected by a number of theorists out there,

but the way that I tend to understand and

interpret the medical model is the way that I was taught and raised, the way that many of us were

taught and raised in the Western world in any capitalist country. And that is essentially that

disability is a medical issue that exists within a person. It's something that is wrong with them. It's a defect,

and it needs to be fixed. And that is essentially how we in the United States, how folks in most

Western countries, most capitalist countries view disability. It's how I view

disability most of my life, that it was a problem, it was something that was wrong with my body,

and that I needed to do whatever I could to fix that. The reason that that's a problem for us

disabled folk is it's a really shitty message. I hope I'm okay to say

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