The Dialysis Project: Portrait of a Chronic Illness
Leah Lewis discusses her play, The Dialysis Project a one-woman multi-media performance piece, which investigates grief and resilience through the lens of self-administered home dialysis. Leah “perfor...
10 Marras 202229min
Siblings, Disability & Financial Security
Helen Ries of Siblings Canada discusses a new financial literacy program for adult siblings of People with Disabilities. She talks about her personal experience as an adult caregiver for a sibling wit...
3 Marras 202226min
Disability, Employment, and Workplace Advocacy
Disability activist Judith Heumann talks about Fable Tech Labs' new training course for job seekers with disabilities. She discusses her course, teaching advocacy in the workplace, and the relationshi...
27 Loka 202225min
Narrating the Housing Crisis: Madness & Homelessness in Documentaries
Tim Martin of York University talks about how homelessness & disability is shown in documentaries and his article in the Canadian Journal of Disability Studies "Narrating the Housing Crisis: Encounter...
20 Loka 202224min
Becoming a Proud Stutterer
Maya Chupkov is the creator of the Proud Stutter podcast. Maya believes that social norms about stuttering need to change by creating welcoming spaces for stutterers and through public policy and advo...
13 Loka 202224min
Sarah Patel, Thinking in Colour
Sarah Patel discusses her YouTube series, Thinking in Colour, about her lived experience of being disabled and Muslim. This is the October 6, 2022 episode. Check out the Pulse on YouTube!About AMIAMI...
6 Loka 202224min
Decolonizing Autism Services
Alison Gerlach, assistant professor in the School of Child and Youth Development at the University of Victoria talks about the need for an Indigenous lens in autism diagnosis and service delivery. Poi...
29 Syys 202228min
Disability Ingenuity in Memoir Writing
In this episode of the Pulse, we speak to Andreae Callanan, a PhD student from Memorial University about her research into the disability memoir as an accessibility device for able-bodied readers. Th...
22 Syys 202230min
