Disability Crosses Borders is a home for the stories where disability, migration and culture meet. Hosted by disabled migrant Áine Kelly-Costello, it centres the lived experience of disabled people as we move between places and cultures. DCB doesn't shy away from conversations about the systemic change needed to truly value disabled lives and dignity. Join us! Find summaries and transcripts at disabilitycrossesborders.com.
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Welcome to Enabling Commons! This podcast is a space for dialogue among persons with disabilities to explore strategies that will transform our environments, our commons, to be meaningfully enabling for all. Every episode, we have conversations with activists, experts, and scholars at the intersections between disability and climate change, unpacking and sharing knowledge. Host and audio production by Áine Kelly-Costello Transcripts and podcast promotion by Rose Paquet. Music composed and pr ...
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Part of the more-than-human world with Hanna Cormick
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Host Áine Kellly-Costello talks to Hanna Cormick, a performance artist based in so-called Australia. Hanna's work viscerally depicts the connectedness of our bodies and their needs, with not only other human beings, but also the ecological systems we sometimes forget we're embedded in. Some of these ideas might seem abstract but as the conversation…
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Connecting to nature with Dr Sasha Kosanic
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Host Áine Kelly-Costello talks to Dr Sasha Kosanic, an interdisciplinary disabled scientist with a focus on climate change impacts on biodiversity and ecosystem services based at Liverpool John Moores University in the UK. We talk about Sasha's research in Madagascar and the bounty of ecological diversity disabled people should have equitable acces…
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Host Áine Kelly-Costello talks to Nelly Caleb, National Coordinator of the Vanuatu Disability Promotion and Advocacy Association. Nelly knows the compounding impacts of disasters intimately, because in Vanuatu they don't stop. Áine and Nelly talk about what Nelly's learned from recent cyclones and years of advocacy in disaster risk response, coveri…
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Disabled messengers for change with Dr Mostafa Kamal Attia
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Host Áine Kelly-Costello talks to Dr Mostafa Kamal Attia, an international consultant on Disability Inclusion in Disaster Risk Reduction. We talk about Mostafa's journey into disability consulting as a blind person originally from Egypt who has also lived extensively in the UK. They also cover Mostafa's experiences at the climate negotiations cOP27…
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Community and care for ourselves and the planet, with Tori Tsui
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Host Áine Kelly-Costello talks to Tori Tsui, a Mad-identified Bristol-based climate activist from Hong Kong. Her book "It's Not Just You', exploring the intersections of mental health and the climate crisis" comes out in July. This is a deep conversation which interrogates the concept of eco-anxiety. They talk about connecting to places as disabled…
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Host Áine Kelly-Costello talks to Karina Cardona, a disabled Canada-based collaborator at the nexus of disability, environmental and climate justice. We talk about disabled perspectives on urban mobility and low-emissions transitions, as well as the short film Cripping climate Adaptation which Karina co-directed. They get into the policy detail and…
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Back to the villages, living off the land, with Pavan Muntha
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Host Áine Kelly-Costello talks to Pavan Muntha who is an experienced climate resilience trainer from India. Pavan works with farmers including farmers with disabilities. In their wide-ranging conversation, Pavan holistically describes the connections between how we tend the land, our wellbeing and livelihood, and planetary health. Read the episode …
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Digging into the archive with Dr Julia Watts Belser
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Host Áine Kelly-Costello talks to Dr Julia Watts Belser who is a professor of Jewish studies and Disability Studies at Georgetown University in Washington DC. Julia coordinates the Disability and Climate Change Public Archive, which chronicles disabled experience and wisdom navigating climate disruption and connected crises. They talk about telling…
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Enabling Commons trailer season 2 Introducing a new season of Enabling Commons, hosted by Áine Kelly-Costello. Enabling Commons is a podcast of the Disability-Inclusive Climate Action Research Programme based at McGill University. Transcripts and podcast promotion by Rose Paquet. Music composed and produced by Sam Morgan. Audio production by Áine K…
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Culture, Community and Care with Jiya Pandya and Kim Fernandes
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Welcome to Disability Crosses Borders, a podcast and blog featuring stories where disability, migration and culture meet. I’m Áine Kelly-Costello and today, I talk to two disabled queer South Asian scholars studying in the US. If you like unpacking the language we use to make sense of our place in the world on multiple axes… Continue reading Cultur…
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Disability Advocacy Between Countries and Cultures with Peter Torres Fremlin
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Peter Torres Fremlin works in international cooperation for disabled people and has lived abroad extensively. Following his life’s trajectory, we cover how Peter found his love for the field, disability rights between countries, living your values as an international consultant, and more. Enjoy. Subscribe to Disability Debrief. Follow Peter on Twit…
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Blind social work students on advocacy, intersections and growing up between cultures, with Fatuma Abdi and Jessica Kar
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You’re listening to Disability Crosses Borders, featuring stories where disability, migration and culture meet. I’m Áine Kelly-Costello and today I talk to two blind social work students first Fatuma Abdi, and second Jessica Karim. I chose to interview them one at a time as they’ve grown up between totally separate cultures and have distinct life… …
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Afghan disability activist’s message to world: “Don’t forget people with disability in Afghanistan”
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Samiulhaq Sami is a disability rights advocate living in Kabul, working nationally and internationally. He fears for his life and the well-being of his family. He also wants governments and donors to pay attention to the compounding challenges people with disabilities are experiencing in Afghanistan, especially under Taliban rule. Transcript Organi…
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Independent living and disability advocacy from Japan to NZ with Umi Asaka
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Welcome to Disability Crosses Borders, a podcast and blog featuring stories where disability, migration and culture meet. I’m your host Áine Kelly-costello and today I talk to disability researcher and advocate Umi Asaka. We explore disability advocacy, especially the independent living movement, in Japan and New Zealand. And Umi tells us about the…
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Grounded in Experience - Conversation with Pratima Gurung
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In this episode, I chat with Pratima Gurung, the General Secretary for the Indigenous Persons with Disabilities Global Network, and the President of the National Indigenous Disabled Women Association of Nepal. Pratima speaks to how climate change is impacting people with disabilities in Nepal, including specific impacts facing Indigenous communitie…
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Growing up between Korean, NZ and US cultures, with Ju Hyeon Han and Miso Kwak
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Two blind immigrants share their journeys navigating multiple school systems, parental expectations, disability identity and more.By Áine Kelly-Costello
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“You’re leaving out communities”: intersectional mental health support and advocacy with Allilsa Fernandez
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Welcome to Disability Crosses Borders, a home for the stories where disability, migration and culture meet. I’m Áine Kelly-Costello. Today, I talk to US-based Latinx mental health and disability advocate Allilsa Fernandez about how mental health spaces fail to consider the needs of disabled, Deaf and culturally diverse communities. We talk about he…
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The Need for Leadership - Conversation with Gordon Rattray and Mary Keogh
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In this episode I chat with Gordon Rattray, an International Cooperation Officer with European Disability Forum, and Mary Keogh, the Advocacy Director for CBM Global Disability Inclusion. We talk about the process behind the video they helped create on disability inclusive climate justice that shares perspectives from all around the globe (short ve…
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“I’m not trash”: disabled immigrants confront New Zealand’s discriminatory immigration Policy
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Welcome to Disability Crosses Borders, a home for the stories where disability, migration and culture meet. It’s a brand new podcast and blog. I’m your host, Áine Kelly-Costello, a disabled migrant myself. Find out more, support the show and post your comments at disabilitycrossesborders.com. Today, I talk to two disabled migrants to Aotearoa New Z…
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Meet me at the intersections of disability, migration and culture.By Áine Kelly-Costello
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Gatecrashing Climate Justice - Conversation with Ipul Powaseu
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In this episode I chat with Ipul Powaseu, an advisor for the Papua New Guinea Assembly of Disabled Persons, as well as a leader and activist. We talk about the specific impacts of climate change on disabled Indigenous women in Papua New Guinea, Ipul’s experience in bringing these challenges to the forefront at both local and global levels, and her …
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Act Locally, Start Small - Conversation with Fionn and Jonathan Angus
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In this episode, I speak with Fionn and Jonathan Angus, the dynamic duo behind Fionnathan productions. We talk about the work of Fionnathan productions and many other things: the importance of citizen expertise in climate justice, the power of comedy, and what it means to have abundant relationships with nature and the world around you. To support …
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Disability and Climate Justice in Lesotho - Conversation with Nkhasi Sefuthi
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In this episode, I speak with Nkhasi Sefuthi, the Executive Director of Lesotho National Federation of Organizations of the Disabled (LNFOD), an umbrella body of organizations supporting people with disabilities in Lesotho. We talk about the intersection between climate and disability justice in Lesotho and strategies for engaging with policy maker…
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The Emperor’s New Clothes - Conversation with Carlos Kaiser
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In this episode, I speak with Carlos Kaiser, the director of Inclusiva NGO in Chile. We talk about disaster risk reduction and climate change, the importance of binding formal agreements ensuring an inclusive climate justice, and the barriers facing Latin American organizations that are advocating for disabled persons.…
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Knowers, Makers, and Doers of Climate Action - Conversation with Sébastien Jodoin
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In this episode, I speak with Sébastien Jodoin, director of the Disability-Inclusive Climate Action Research Programme and law professor at McGill University. Sébastien and I talk about the work of the Disability-Inclusive Climate Action Research Programme and the role of disabled persons in climate justice.…
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Unpacking Ableism in Environmental Justice - Conversation with Yolanda Muñoz
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In this episode, I have a conversation with Yolanda Muñoz, a co-investigator with the Disability-Inclusive Climate Action Research Programme. We talk about the relationship of disability justice and climate justice with intersecting sources of oppression and the importance of challenging ableism, especially in the climate movement.…
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Beyond Building Back Better - Conversation with Marcie Roth
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In this episode, Marcie Roth, the CEO of the World Institute on Disability, and I talk about supporting disability-led organizations, emergency preparedness for people with disabilities, and not building back better, but building better environments, period.
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