Recently I’ve noticed a rising conversation among higher ed folks about the impact of prolonged stress on our bodies. This is a conversation we need to have in higher education, and we need to center the research and voices of critical disability studies scholars and disability justice advocates, who have been reckoning with these issues for a long time. In this episode, I explore how we might better support our intertwined bodies-and-minds (“bodyminds”) by releasing ableist myths about our capacity and practicing interdependence.

Find the transcript for Episode 20, “How’s Your Bodymind?” here: https://www.karengrcoaching.com/post/how-s-your-bodymind

Mentioned in this episode:

• Margaret Price, “The Bodymind Problem and the Possibilities of Pain,” Hypatia 30.1, Winter 2025, 268-284.
• Susan Hrach, Minding Bodies: How Physical Space, Sensation, and Movement Affect Learning: https://wvupressonline.com/node/866
• Christine Miserandino on spoon theory: https://lymphoma-action.org.uk/sites/default/files/media/documents/2020-05/Spoon%20theory%20by%20Christine%20Miserandino.pdf
• See more on Patty Berne in Shayda Kafai, Crip Kinship: The Disability Justice & Art Activism of Sins Invalid: https://arsenalpulp.com/Books/C/Crip-Kinship
• Patty Berne, “10 Principles of Disability Justice”: https://sinsinvalid.org/10-principles-of-disability-justice/
• Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha, The Future is Disabled: Prophecies, Love Notes and Mourning Songs: https://arsenalpulp.com/Books/T/The-Future-Is-Disabled
• Artworks in Finnegan Shannon’s series “Do you want us here or not” (2018): https://shannonfinnegan.com/do-you-want-us-here-or-not

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