The Accessible Stall

Look, we know non-disabled people mean well. And I mean, we love lots of non-disabled people! But you can totally understand why we’re skeptical… right? It’s nothing personal, we swear! You know what, just give this episode a listen, you’ll get it!

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Look, we know fitness is important. We’ve even done an episode on it some time ago. But we also know fitness isn’t very accessible. And even if you can adapt fitness to your ability level and body type, the instructors are almost always people with model-like physiques that don’t have disabilities.

Or at least, that’s what we would say if we weren’t talking about Kakana. Think of Kakana like Peloton, but accessible. Virtual, live, and streamable fitness classes for people with and without disabilities. It’s seriously really cool, and if you’re thinking about getting in shape, why not do it now? I mean it’s not like we’re doing anything else these days anyway.

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Disclosure: This is not a sponsored episode, but Emily did receive a complimentary membership to Kakana.

We talked about Bean Dad. We know it already happened a century ago, but we have points to make!

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When did you know you were disabled? We know that’s heavy, but think back… When did you first learn you were “different”? We take a deep look into our pasts to try and answer this question. A transcript for this episode can be found here.

Emily and I reminise about how we met, Amazon, the Internet, and how cool it is. A transcript for this episode can be found here.

Also: VOTE!

This episode of The Accessible Stall was sponsored by Getting Hired.

Getting Hired is a resource that connects job seekers with disabilities to employers who are looking to hire people with disabilities. They are a recruitment solution dedicated to helping inclusive employers hire professional individuals and veterans with disabilities.

We were joined by Sarah McMullen, who works with employers to achieve diverse and inclusive workplaces with a specific focus on disability. She has spent her professional career implementing strategies for disability inclusion programs within Fortune 500 companies. She is widely known throughout the space for her expertise on creating inclusive candidate experiences, cultures and understanding the impacts of unconscious bias.

Sarah believes that inclusion, equity and representation of all diverse people is what creates successful businesses. She attributes her passion for this to her former professional experience in working at a non-profit for people with disabilities and having immediate family members with non-apparent disabilities.

This was an important episode for us to make. October is National Disability Employment Awareness Month. The unemployment rate is still more than double that for people with disabilities compared to people without. Since the pandemic, one in five people with disabilities have lost their jobs versus one in seven are compared to one in seven people without disabilities.

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Let’s talk about the connections between gender identity and disability. A transcript for this episode can be found here.

Etiquette is strange, man. Disability just makes it stranger, right? Doesn’t it? Let’s talk about it. A transcript for this episode can be found here.

CN/TW: Police brutality, murder of unarmed Black people, systemic racism and ableism

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In this episode, we talk with D’Arcee Charington Neal, a Black disabled activist and doctoral student, about intersections of race and disability in connection with ongoing reckonings against racism around the world. Follow D’Arcee on Twitter: @DrChairington.

Notes from this episode:

* Letter from a Birmingham Jail

* Compromise comic

* Hasan Minhaj Patriot Act Episode about George Floyd

* Kimberlé Crenshaw: The urgency of intersectionality

* Unspeakable Offenses: Untangling Race and Disability in Discourses of Intersectionality

Further reading and resources:

* Black Lives Matter and Disability

* A round-up of resources from Black disabled people

We’ve donated this month’s Patreon earnings to Helping Educate to Advance the Rights of Deaf Communities (“HEARD”), which is “the only organization in the nation that supports deaf, hard of hearing, deafblind, deafdisabled, and disabled (“deaf/disabled”) people at every stage of the criminal legal system process, up to and including during and after incarceration. HEARD works to correct and prevent wrongful convictions of deaf/disabled people; end all forms of abuse and incarceration of people with disabilities.”

Remember when we did an episode on Vote for Access? We’re back at it. This time, we have the star and host of the series, Imani Barbarin, as our guest. You may remember Imani from our last episode with her, where we discussed her being the disability hashtag queen.

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