Podcast Episodes

Here are our episodes

This is where you’ll find all of our old podcast episodes. It’s an archive that lets you to listen to every episode we’ve ever recorded. Each one of these podcast episodes highlights different but important issues within the disability community. We strive to make our community better and with every episode we record, we get closer to that goal. We challenge the “expected” of the disability community whenever possible, and some of our best episodes are the ones in which we must confront our own biases. Our podcast episodes are there to give you a look into the world of disability. These issues might not affect you, as a listener, so we try to offer a “behind the curtain” look.

We welcome you to listen to us, and hopefully you will have enjoyed listening as much as we’ve enjoyed creating this. Making these is a labor of love, and we’re happy you’re along for the ride with us.

Episode 35: Acquiring Disability and Hearing Aids

In this episode, we talk about acquiring disability. Even though we have had ours from birth, acquiring disability can still affect us. For example, our reasoning for making this episode was that Emily recently figured out she needed hearing aids. Although hearing aids are just another piece of assistive technology, Emily’s first day with them…

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Episode 34: Sheltered Workshops vs. Sweatshops

In this episode, we discuss sheltered workshops. Sheltered workshops are places that can employ people with disabilities and pay them lower than the minimum wage. Obviously, we think this is horrific.  We talk about them in this episode, and compare them to sweatshops, because Kyle found another article which he thinks is absurd called The Feminist Side of Sweatshops. Enjoy! A transcript…

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Episode 33: Accessibility = Wheelchairs?!

In this episode, we talk about why disability seems to be synonymous with a wheelchair. There’s a lot to unpack here and we really liked it so we’re trying to get this one out as fast as possible! Please excuse lazy show notes. Enjoy! A transcript for this episode can be found here.

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