Chris Tartaro on Facing Mortality Twice, Creativity and Balancing Parenting with Illness
In this episode of So Life Wants You Dead, Nora sits down with Chris Tartaro. Chris Tartaro is a television director from Queens, NY, who currently works on the Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon. He ...
6 Aug 20241h 1min
Disability Pride Month: Live from Soho House with Kendall Ciesemier
In this episode, we talk to Kendall Ciesemier, a writer, producer, reporter, and health and disability advocate. Nora celebrated the launch event of So, Life Wants You Dead during Disability Pride Mon...
30 Jul 20241h
Ronaé Fagon On Navigating a Medical System Not Set Up to Cater to a Mystery Illness
In this episode, we talk to Ronaé Fagon, a sustainability thought leader, illustrator, fashion designer, and co-founder of the sustainable e-commerce platform SlowCo. We talk about Ronaé’s experience ...
24 Jan 202348min
Claudia Walder on Shame, Community + Finding New Ground after Disability
In this episode, Nora talks to Claudia Rose Walder, a London-based editor and creative director working within the realms of styling, image direction and journalism. She is also a disability activist,...
17 Jan 20231h 7min
Playwright Matilda Ibini on Humour and Writing Your Way Through
In this episode, Nora talks to Matilda Ibini. Matilda is a Nigerian Londoner and an award-winning bionic, Queer playwright and screenwriter with Limb Girdle Muscular Dystrophy. Their work often centre...
10 Jan 20231h 3min
Alexa Wilding on Caregiving, Minor-Major Characters in Your Story & Two Cancer Diagnoses in One Family
In this episode, Nora talks to Alexa Wilding, a writer, musician, and mother of two whose cancer and caregiving experience has both built community and informed her creative life. We talk about what i...
4 Jan 20231h 22min
Charlie Fitz On Using Art to Reclaim the Medical Narrative
In this episode, we talk to Charlie Fitz. Charlie is a UK-based sick and disabled artist, arts practitioner, writer, co-director of the remote artist studio TRIAD³ c.i.c and medical humanities postgra...
20 Des 20221h 13min
Poet Tonya Ingram on Navigating the Organ Donor System
In this episode, we talk to Tonya Ingram, a poet and mental health advocate living with Lupus. During our conversation, we discuss Tonya’s experience being on the kidney transplant waiting list, the d...
13 Des 202242min
