Digging into the archive with Dr Julia Watts Belser

Host Áine Kelly-Costello talks to Dr Julia Watts Belser who is a professor of Jewish studies and Disability Studies at Georgetown University in Washington DC. Julia coordinates the Disability and Climate Change Public Archive, which chronicles disabled experience and wisdom navigating climate disruption and connected crises. They talk about telling compelling stories at disability and climate intersections, making them accessible, and sustaining this work through the archive. They also discuss Julia's article in Truthout about the dangers of viewing disabled people as "expected losses".

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