11 episodes
Secret Lives of the Disabled Sally Greenhouse
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4.0 • 4 Ratings
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Performance Artist Sally Greenhouse survived a catastrophic car accident that left her with a broken neck and spinal cord injury. "Secret Lives of the Disabled" is a podcast that has as its focus individuals who become disabled in America due to accidents, chronic illnesses and debilitating pain often plunging them into poverty, housing insecurity and extreme isolation while rendering them as expendable Americans. This podcast features guests from every profession addressing the consequences faced by formerly able bodied people, in mutually interactive conversations with Greenhouse, that include her chronicle of how she survives physical disability.“Razor sharp observations.” - Bay Windows“Mordantly funny…Swiftian humor.” - The New York Times“Thinking person's performance artist…hilarious & harrowing.” - The Boston Globe"Secret Lives of the Disabled" is commercial free, funded by a grant from the New England Foundation for the Arts.www.SecretLivesoftheDisabled.com
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"At the Center of All Beauty" : Loneliness or Solitude? featuring author Fenton Johnson
Cross-Genre writer Fenton Johnson discusses living as a “Solitary”, his recent book At the Center of All Beauty: Solitude and the Creative Life & its relevance for those whose lives have been transformed by physical disability while alone.
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Covid Collision Course: Not Dead Yet? - Julia Doubleday {Investigative Journalist/Essayist}
A data-driven Public Health clarification/discussion with historical instances of previous American medical misconceptions, about how Covid isn't over for those with physical disability related medical vulnerability.
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“You Say Inclusive…..We Say Non-Exclusive” Rabbi Benjamin Weiner
Notes: A Judaic perspective on becoming physically disabled & being part of the Jewish Community of Amherst. Irish Lit scholar {Samuel Beckett & James Joyce}, family farmer
and Reconstructionist rabbi, Ben Weiner, does a deep dive into the theological/scriptural foundation of their “Non-Exclusionary” policy. -
Disability Policy Prodigy: Colin Killick
Executive Director of the Disability Policy Consortium of Massachusetts, Colin Killick, offers updates & commentary on discrepancy in critical health care for the physically disabled during the pandemic & its aftermath, while reviewing his newly drafted legislative reforms. With a grad degree from the Kennedy School of Gov’t @ Harvard U, Colin is a trail blazing advocate overturning discrimination against those with disability in medical access.
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“Show Me the Way to Go Home” featuring Peter Hepburn, Associate Director of the Eviction Lab, Princeton University
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Such Grace: Andre Dubus ll featuring Andrea Ivanov-Craig, Phd and Rev. Jep Streit
MacArthur “Genius Grant” recipient , short story writer Andre Dubus ll, was hit by a car on a highway in Massachusetts @ age 50, sustaining disabling injuries that disabled him until his death 12 years later.
Andrea Ivanov-Craig, author of Moving Toward Redemption: Spirituality & Disability in the Late Writings of Andre Dubus ll while Jep Streit was a participant in his weekly short story workshop for years. (The son of Andre Dubus ll, novelist Andre Dubus lll, is featured in Ep. 2 of this podcast Such Kindness.)
Customer Reviews
Great conversation
Interesting conversations about issues I wouldn’t otherwise know much about. Particularly regarding spirituality and disability, a topic not normally discussed. Very engaging conversation.
Was excited to hear guest Andre Dubus interviewed
But had to stop halfway through episode. The way the host repeatedly rudely interrupted the guest was infuriating.