21stCenturyCripple

21stCenturyCripple

By Sisi MarreroSociety & CulturePersonal Journals
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21stCenturyCripple episodes

  • Mind your Minds!
    dealing with depression and anxiety and mental illness is not a problem we have to face alone. It starts with being kind to ourselves and having real conversations about the struggles we face in order for a change to be made. It starts with us!
    44 min
  • America the Ableist

    Speaking candidly and honestly about how America is inherently an abliest country and setting disabled individuals up for failure and discrimination. Capitalism is not set up with disabled people in mind, creating a huge employment disparity between disabled individuals and their able bodied counterparts. We need to fight for change and awareness it starts with me. 

    42 min
  • Reefer Mindfulness
    speaking honestly about the benefits and history of medical marijuana from the perspective of someone with chronic pain and why reefer madness can be within us all if we challenge the untrue stigmas behind the miracle plant.
    36 min
  • LOVE....What does Cripple gotta do with it?
    My history of love dealing with my insecurities and knowing I’m worthy of love regardless of other people’s perception. SELF LOVE ALL 2020
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    39 min
  • #MAMBAMENTALITY
    what the mamba mentality means to me as a 21stCenturyCripple and why I’m going to strive everyday to be the best person I can be, never take my life for granted. And persevere through everything that comes with being a 21stCenturyCripple.
    56 min
  • How Ableism Enables Ignorance
    An honest conversation the ableist mindsets of companies and individuals employed by these companies that make our lives harder simply because we are disabled. It’s discriminatory, it’s inhumane, it needs to be spoken on.
    36 min
  • Your Perception is not my Reality
    Breaking down some of the preconceived notions that come with having CP and being a 21stCenturyCripple, why I’m fighting to create my own mold because I don’t seem to fit in anyone else’s.
    37 min
  • Medical Woes and Tolls Of Cerebral Palsy
    The medical issues I have having Spastic Cerebral Palsy. From birth till now healthcare has ruled the direction of my life. Tune in to hear the medical side of cp and the reasons I am a cyborg, why healthcare is so important to this 21stCenturyCripple and why I’ll always need medical assistance.
    34 min
  • The importance of independence
    Independent? But at what cost? The little things in life really mean the most to people that don’t get to achieve these tasks everyday and why I keep striving for it and will never let up.
    28 min
  • Inclusion feels more like Seclusion
    An episode on inclusion, we do not need to be excluded from the population, we are the population! First podcast episode with guest! Carlie and Lance, speaking on their inclusion experiences, which weren’t much. And their exposure to this little 21stCenturyCripple
    14 min

About 21stCenturyCripple

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21stCenturyCripple is that look into what’s it’s really like to be handicapped from the perspective of a young woman who’s trying to navigate the world, love, job security, health and happiness, all…