The Conversation Pit

Cripple Productions
  • 5.0 (6)
  • EDUCATION

Welcome to the Conversation Pit, a podcast that explores the anti-ableist project through the lenses of philosophy, art, and culture.

Episodes

  1. Why Be Put In A Box?

    06/17/2025

    Why Be Put In A Box?

    Hailing from London, England, Moeed Majeed is an award-winning podcaster, presenter, and model. Living with Crohn's disease and a stoma bag, he is a passionate advocate for invisible conditions, using his platform to spark conversations and raise awareness. Currently, he is creating his own documentary series, where he takes on new challenges and experiences he's never tried before.

    34 min
  2. How Do We Diversify Change?

    04/29/2025

    How Do We Diversify Change?

    In this fourth episode, host Jam Joseph engages in dialogue with Jerron Herman, a disabled dancer and writer who creates works to facilitate welcoming. Jerron is compelled to create images of freedom, intersecting with the anti-ableist project and its intersection with arts and culture. Jerron is an artist, dancer, writer, and model who's process is supported by personal histories and social legacies of disability aesthetics that undermine notions of production in favor of welcoming. Action Items for able-bodied listeners: Read up on and watch Vitruvian by Jerron Herman Watch and familiarize yourself with Tobin Siebers's Disability Aesthetics Terms to know: -DISABILITY ACCESS TOOLS -DISABILITY AESTHETICS -CRIP NEWS -THE VITRUVIAN MAN BY LEONARDO DI VINCI -METAPHYSICAL / PHYSICAL

    33 min
  3. Who's Narrative Is This Anyways?

    03/31/2025

    Who's Narrative Is This Anyways?

    Rebekah Taussig is a Kansas City writer and educator. Bolstered by academic knowledge and personal experience, she strives to tell stories that enhance and complicate the way we think about disability. You can find more of her work in TIME, on her Instagram, @sitting_pretty, or in her memoir in essays, Sitting Pretty: The View from My Ordinary Resilient Disabled Body. You can follow her work and sign up for her newsletter at www.rebekahtaussig.com.

    47 min
  4. Who Can You Trust?

    03/12/2025

    Who Can You Trust?

    Sid Marcos, a writer and producer of Cripple Productions and producer of this podcast, is working on her book titled Until Our Time. She gives us insight into what we might find in those pages and its attempt to reconcile the timelines of Hemingway's era on antiquated ideas.

    33 min
  5. Who's Setting Intentions?

    02/17/2025

    Who's Setting Intentions?

    In this first episode, host Jam Joseph engages in dialogue with Sid Marcos, the producer of the podcast and founder of Cripple Productions, to explore the intentions of the anti-ableist project and its intersection with arts and culture. Here's what you'll learn in today's Episode: - Why ableism is the focus of this podcast - How arts and culture can be used to unpack ableism - How to engage in the conversation of anti-ableism in our culture today. Listeners are invited to participate in the anti-ableist project through the podcast's interactive newsletter, 'In Dialogue', which offers resources, prompts for response, and comment boxes to keep the conversation going. Thanks for tuning in to the Conversation Pit, a Cripple Productions podcast. Stay in touch by signing up for 'In Dialogue' on www.crippleproductions.com.

    4 min
  • 5 Episodes

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Welcome to the Conversation Pit, a podcast that explores the anti-ableist project through the lenses of philosophy, art, and culture.

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