Disability Rights Now: Inside the Fight for Accessibility, Inclusion, and Independent Living
Disability Rights Now: Inside the Fight for Accessibility, Inclusion, and Independent Living
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Disability Rights Now brings you frontline conversations with the advocates, leaders, and changemakers shaping the future of disability rights. Produced by Disability Rights Podcasts, each episode features direct voices from the independent living movement working to protect and advance the civil rights of people with disabilities. If your organization wants to amplify your mission and share your stories, visit DisabilityRightsPodcasts.org or email [email protected] for more info about how we create a custom podcast for your cause.
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The podcast focuses on civil rights for people with disabilities, intersectional leadership, and the role of technology in facilitating inclusion, with episodes exploring topics like race and disability, inclusive hiring practices, and the political landscape affecting disability rights.
Right now, decisions are being made in Washington and in every statehouse that will determine whether people with disabilities live in their own communities or get pushed into institutions. Most Americans have no idea it’s happening. Disability and Power is here to change that.
Each episode, host Matt Shedd sits down with Theo Braddy, Executive Director of the National Council on Independent Living and a veteran of five decades in the disability rights movement, to take on one legislative fight or real-world obstacle facing people with disabilities: Medicaid cuts, the attendant care crisis, a
Director of the National Council on Independent Living, Theo Braddy explains why being called ”inspiring” for ordinary things does real damage. He and Matt Shedd work through the consequences on both sides, specifically how non-disabled people build a worldview out of low expectations, and how disabled people can internalize it. Theo illustrates this with hard examples running from Jerry Lewis telethons to Special Olympics to campus buddy programs. Theo also draws the line he will accept: be inspired by someone's story once you actually know it, not by the wheelchair you just noticed in the checkout line. Watch the full conversation and share it with someone who has never stopped to think about what “you're so inspiring” actually communicates.THE OVERVIEW
0:00 The Overview: What Inspiration Porn Is
2:55 Ordinary Things Made to Seem Extraordinary
4:45 The Elders Who Said He Needed More Faith
THE MISCONCEPTIONS
5:50 The Misconceptions: People Turned Into Props
8:45 When Disabled People Internalize It
10:40 The Kind of Inspiration Theo Will Accept
THE REAL STORY
13:05 The Real Story: The Power Differential
13:35 Special Olympics and the Other 364 Days
16:10 Best Buddies and Manufactured Friendship
WHAT YOU CAN DO
22:05 What You Can Do: Start With Real Interaction
24:38 The Minister Who Chased Him Through the Mall
26:42 Unlearning What You Were Taught
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