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Welcome to POWER NOT PITY, where we explore the lives of disabled people of color everywhere! Through storytelling, commentary and analysis, the podcast aims to amplify the lived experiences and perspectives of disabled people. We’ll delve into all sorts of topics from education to entertainment, even sex... and we'll break down race, gender in order to dismantle ableism. And then we'll ask: “What’s your disabled power?”
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Eman Rimawi is a double amputee with an aggressive form of lupus. She is Black, Palestinian and a disability rights organizer with the New York Lawyers for the Public Interest. Listen in as we talk about her journey through 12 years of her condition, Blackness and pain, and the many lives of Chun-Li!…
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Finding That Rhythm feat. Amali Maxine Philipps
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Amali Maxine Phillips is a kid with a lot of POWER! Want to see how I know? Listen in as Amali describes her life with CP and how poetry fuels her creativity. At once a published poet, she is also a DJ. We discuss her poetry, her inspirations, her writing process, and what life is like with cerebral palsy.Listen in as she describes her superhero!Fi…
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What if we could imagine an accessible world? In this episode, Rivers Solomon, author of an Unkindness of Ghosts, discusses what an accessible future could look like. Listen in as we talk about afrofuturism and disability, their diabetes and the strength that can come from being a disabled Black, queer alien moving through today's society.…
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When Tiny Tim Meets the Magical Negro feat. Kristen Lopez
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Kristin has been a freelance film critic for almost a decade. She predominantly writes for Awards Circuit, and is in charge of both their classic film and book columns. She is also the owner and operator of the premiere classic film site, Journeys in Classic Film. She has Osteogenesis Imperfecta, a rare disorder that is characterized by fragile bon…
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In this first episode of POWER NOT PITY, we ask Zaynab Shahar, “Is God Inaccessible?”, and uncover the relationship between religion and disability. Zaynab was formerly a CrossCurrents Research Fellow at Auburn Seminary and is currently a doctoral candidate at Chicago Theological Seminary. She proclaims on Twitter: “embrace darkness & make me one w…
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