Kyle Khachadurian

Episode 39: Fitness and Disability

On this episode, we talk about how to stay fit while disabled. A transcript for this episode can be found here. NB: Kyle said “jQuery” in this episode telling a story, he meant “NodeJS”. Notes from this episode: Emily’s Seated Workout List, Percentage of Disabled People in the US, source 1, Percentage of Disabled People in the…

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Episode 38: The Soft Bigotry of Low Expectations

The Soft Bigotry of Low Expectations is a form of subtle prejudice where the people at the top of the social hierarchy don’t hold marginalized people to the standards of everyone else. How does this apply to disabled people? We discuss. A transcript for this episode can be found here.

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Episode 37: Alienation, Education, and Bullies

The disability community is supposed to be a bastion of open-mindedness. But is it? Do we shun people who think slightly differently than the collective “us”? We discuss as Emily tells the story of something that happened to her at a conference recently. A transcript for this episode can be found here.

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