Disability Disruptions Podcast
Disability Disruptions is a documentary podcast about the past, present, and future of disability justice in action. Hosted by Kelly Fritsch, Fady Shanouda, and Megan Linton, we dive into the disruptions that disability sparks and the practices that carry us forward in our struggles for social change.
Episode 1: Stay with the Mess: Disability Justice Organizing in Canada and Beyond
Disability justice offers a radical framework for disrupting and transforming a world built to exclude disabled people. There is much to learn from disabled organizers and activists about how to meet people where they are and how to build access and solidarity across movements as we struggle together to foster social change… Read more
Episode 2: Dreaming Change into Existence: The Disruptive Power of Disability Arts
Spanning the whimsical to the profound, disability art is present all around us—and it is reshaping how we think and feel about bodymind differences… Read more
Episode 3: Solidarity over Silence, Liberation over Despair
The fight for a free Palestine and resistance to settler colonialism in Canada are not separate struggles – they are bound together by histories of violence and dreams of freedom. In this episode, we turn to disability justice to attend to some of the ways settler colonial violence debilitates and disables, uplifting the fierce, every day… Read more
Episode 4: Organizing with Grief, Loss, and Burnout
Through burnout, grief, and ongoing losses, we talk with disability justice and drug user activists about how to sustain our struggles for collective liberation and honour the ancestors who guide us toward the world we all need and deserve… Read more
Episode 5: Care Keeps Us Alive
In a world that seeks to profit from our needs, disability justice asks us to reimagine care as a shared practice rooted in interdependence and solidarity. It challenges the ways care has been privatized, individualized, and shaped by carceral logics and instead invites us to build collective, liberatory ways of showing up for one another. In this episode, we speak with activists and organizers… Read more
