I have a conversation with Disability Justice Educator, Public Speaker, Workshop Facilitator, Author, Activist, Spoken Word Performer, and Goddess on Wheels, Maria R. Palacios. We discuss Maria’s early life growing up with a disability in Latin America, moving to Texas as a teenager, finding her community with people with disabilities, participating in the Capitol Crawl, always feeling “secretly sexy,” normies/ablism, working at a Center for Independent Living, independence versus interdependence, being a part of ADAPT, creating disability justice performance art with Sins Invalid, sharing her experiences through writing, welcoming those that acquire a disability into the community, and much more.

Recording Date: Wednesday, March 31st, 2021

To read Maria’s writings, please visit: https://cripstory.wordpress.com/

To listen to Maria’s latest music project, please visit: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1vamitU4E84g7LkLFiFXSgTghGokplTji/view?usp=drivesdk

Contact Maria at: [email protected]