Disorderly Voices

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Disorderly voices is a space to reflect, review and discuss pieces of dysfluent writing, scholarship and art that transform our understandings of stammering.

Episodes

  1. 06/09/2025

    6. Dysfluent Literature with Maria Stuart

    Host Patrick Campbell is joined by Sam Simpson and Dr. Maria Stuart to discuss Maria’s work on the Stammering Collective and her readings of dysfluency in poetry. Maria talks about her experiences in university as a person who stutters – both as a student and an educator, her work on dysfluency in Emily Dickinson’s poetic voice, (dys)fluency in popular culture, and building a stuttering heritage. Links The Stammering Collective Stuttering Gain by Christopher Constantino Stammering Pride and Prejudice edited by Patrick Campbell, Christopher Constantino, Sam Simpson (2019) Entangling the Medical Humanities, by Des Fitzgerald and Felicity Callard, in The Edinburgh Companion to the Critical Medical Humanities (2016) Fr 923 by Emily Dickinson (1865) Dysfluencies: On Speech Disorders in Modern Literature by Chris Eagle (2013) The Clearing - JJJJJerome Ellis Aster of Ceremonies - JJJJJerome Ellis (2023) Honest Speech by Erin Shick Two access options: Youtube (no text version but video has captions, better audio); Voicemail Poems (with text, lower audio quality) Blert by Jordan Scott (2008) I Talk Like a River by Jordan Scott (2020) Black Swan Green by David Mitchell (2007) Paul Aston, Painter Conor Foran Dysfluency in Three Modes of Belonging by Josh St. Pierre (2024) Stuttering Commons Sam Simpson is a UK-based speech and language pathologist who is interested in stammering activism.  Dr. Maria Stuart teaches at University College Dublin in the School of English, Drama, and Film. Her areas of focus are American literature, crime fiction, and dysfluency studies.

    1h 4m
  2. 05/11/2025

    5. Looking back, looking forward with Sam Simpson

    Show Notes Hosts Patrick Campbell and Maria Stewart are joined by Conor Foran and Sam Simpson to discuss Sam’s article Looking Back, Looking Forward from the book Stammering Pride and Prejudice: Difference not Defect. Sam’s article speaks to the frustration but also the hope of change in how stuttering is considered within the speech therapy profession. Together, they discuss topics like the power of the social model of disability, how people who stammer can make choices when it comes to different therapies, and how narratives around advancements in neuroscience may be damaging to stuttering and other disability movements. Links Stammering Pride and Prejudice edited by Patrick Campbell, Christopher Constantino, Sam Simpson (2019) “Stammering activism and speech-language therapy: An inside view” by Sam Simpson (2016) “A social model of stammering” by Sam Simpson and Carolyn Cheasman (2000) Did I Stutter? Mustn’t Grumble: Writing by Disabled Women by Lois Keith (1994) Stuttering Commons The disabling nature of hope in discovering a biological explanation of stuttering by Prabhat, Ellen Rombouts and Pascal Borry (2022) The Stammering Collective “Stuttering and the social model” by Christopher Constantino, Patrick Campbell, and Sam Simpson (2022) Action for Stammering Children Beyond Aphasia: Therapies For Living With Communication Disability, by Carole Pound, Susie Parr, Jayne Lindsay, Celia Woolf (2000) Sam Simpson is a Southwest London-based speech and language therapist, person-centered counsellor, supervisor, trainer, and stammering ally.  Conor Foran is a London-based Irish artist and designer who stutters.

    1h 2m
  3. 03/10/2025

    3. Stuttering Gain with Christopher Constantino

    What does it mean to be proud of one’s stutter? What does one gain from their stutter? Hosts Patrick, Maria, and Josh are joined by Chris Constantino to discuss his radical essay Stuttering Gain and dive into the world of stuttering pride. In this episode, they talk about the unique experience of stuttering and how we can find benefit in stuttering, as opposed to only thinking about stuttering as a lack of fluency. While the experience of stuttering is difficult, Chris argues that this doesn’t mean there is nothing we have to gain or be proud of.  Links Stuttering Gain by Chris Constantino (2016) Difference in Itself’: Validating Disabled People's Lived Experience by James Overboe (1999) The Question of Access: Disability, Space, Meaning by Tanya Titchkosky (2011) Honest Speech by Erin Shick Two access options: Youtube (no text version but video has captions, better audio); Voicemail Poems (with text, lower audio quality) Stammering Pride and Prejudice edited by Patrick Campbell, Christopher Constantino, Sam Simpson (2019) Forced Intimacy: An Ableist Norm by Mia Mingus (2017) Access Intimacy: The Missing Link by Mia Mingus (2011) Distressing Language: Disability and the Poetics of Error by Michael Davidson (2022) The Case for Conserving Disability by Rosemary Garland-Thomson (2012) The Gift of Stuttering by Ian Wilkie for TEDxFrensham (2022) On the Negative Possibility of Suffering: Adorno, Feminist Philosophy, and the Transfigured Crip To Come by Kelly Fritsch (2013) Conor Foran JJJJJerome Ellis  Chris Constantino is a stutterer and speech language pathologist at Florida State University who teaches stuttering and counselling to graduate students, and supervises therapy. Chris researches how we can make the experience of stuttering better.

    1h 17m

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Disorderly voices is a space to reflect, review and discuss pieces of dysfluent writing, scholarship and art that transform our understandings of stammering.