The Global Disability News Network Podcast: Accessible. Collaborative. Multimedia.

Fashion is one of the most visual industries in the world, so where does that leave blind and low-vision people? In this episode, hosts Karina Sturm and Amy Zayed talk with Anna Cofone, founder of the Hair & Care Project, about how hair, beauty, and style become powerful tools of identity, confidence, and belonging. Anna shares how her father's sight loss inspired her work, what really hap...

Dating with a disability comes with a set of questions most apps never consider, from when to disclose to whether a community of your own means inclusion or separation. In this episode of the TGDNN Podcast, hosts Karina Sturm and Amy Zayed talk with Jacqueline and Alexa Child, the sisters who founded Dateability, a dating app made for disabled and chronically ill people. The conversation gets hone...

New York Times editor and debut author Wendy Lu joins co-hosts Karina Sturm and Amy Zayed to talk about her middle-grade novel Casting April, a story about a 12-year-old girl with a tracheostomy tube who fights to prove she belongs in her school play. Wendy shares why she wrote the book she wished she'd had as a child, how publishing's challenges with the middle-grade market played into he...