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Host Áine Kellly-Costello talks to Hanna Cormick, a performance artist based in so-called Australia. Hanna's work viscerally depicts the connectedness of our bodies and their needs, with not only other human beings, but also the ecological systems we sometimes forget we're embedded in. Some of these ideas might seem abstract but as the conversation unfolds, Hanna makes them tangible through taking us inside her own embodied experience and artistic practice.

Read more from Hanna:


I Am the Damage We Have Done to the Earth - Howlround Theater commons


Cultivating Anti-Extractivist Body Relationships - Ecostage



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Host Áine Kelly-Costello talks to Dr Sasha Kosanic, an interdisciplinary disabled scientist with a focus on climate change impacts on biodiversity and ecosystem services based at Liverpool John Moores University in the UK. We talk about Sasha's research in Madagascar and the bounty of ecological diversity disabled people should have equitable access to, as well as her advocacy as one of few disabled people in her field. 



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Discover Dr. Kosanic's work at https://sashakosanic.wixsite.com/ecosystem-services.

Host Áine Kelly-Costello talks to Nelly Caleb, National Coordinator of the Vanuatu Disability Promotion and Advocacy Association. Nelly knows the compounding impacts of disasters intimately, because in Vanuatu they don't stop. Áine and Nelly talk about what Nelly's learned from recent cyclones and years of advocacy in disaster risk response, covering everything from gathering timely data to evacuation centre accessibility and housing insecurity. 



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Discover the Vanuatu Disability Promotion and Advocacy Association here: https://vdpa.org/aboutus/.

Host Áine Kelly-Costello talks to Dr Mostafa Kamal Attia, an international consultant on Disability Inclusion in Disaster Risk Reduction. We talk about Mostafa's journey into disability consulting as a blind person originally from Egypt who has also lived extensively in the UK. They also cover Mostafa's experiences at the climate negotiations cOP27 and what he's learning in his current role for the United Nations Office for Disaster Risk Reduction.



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Host Áine Kelly-Costello talks to Tori Tsui, a Mad-identified Bristol-based climate activist from Hong Kong. Her book "It's Not Just You', exploring the intersections of mental health and the climate crisis" comes out in July. This is a deep conversation which interrogates the concept of eco-anxiety. They talk about connecting to places as disabled people, and finding sustenance through diverse forms of community.



Here's the website of one initiative discussed, the Resilience Project, https://www.theresilienceproject.org.uk/.

Discover Tori's work here: https://www.toritsui.com.

Pre-order "It's Not Just You" here: https://www.simonandschuster.co.uk/books/Its-Not-Just-You/Tori-Tsui/9781398508729.



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Host Áine Kelly-Costello talks to Karina Cardona, a disabled Canada-based collaborator at the nexus of disability, environmental and climate justice. We talk about disabled perspectives on urban mobility and low-emissions transitions, as well as the short film Cripping climate Adaptation which Karina co-directed. They get into the policy detail and talk about the systems which prop up ableism. 

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