Disability After Dark

Episode Notes In episode 235, I sit down with my new friend Rebecca as we explore her experience with EDS; being diagnosed after not being believed. We talk about EDS, grief, and disability, as well as how to come out as disabled at work in marketing and sales and bookwork, how EDS has played into her parenting & intimacy + so much more. Enjoy! You can follow Rebecca on Instagram here: www.ins...

Episode Notes Spring has sprung and in this episode, I look at popular spring dating options and critically and criptically critique for their accessibility for disabled people.  We find out why enjoying the rain on a spring day might not be the best option for power wheelchair users, why paddle boating isn’t super accessible when you can’t paddle or transfer yourself, why foraging for wild garlic...

Episode Notes In this episode, I sit down with my new friend, sex and intimacy coach Court Vox. I give him some tips and tricks on how to make bodywork more accessible to physically disabled people, and he helps me reframe some things as well. I love giving people tips and tricks to make things more accessible, and areas like bodywork need just that. We had a great conversation and I hope you enjo...

Episode Notes In this episode, I sit down with one of my huge gay porn crushes, sex worker and adult performer Gabriel Cross. In this one, I ask him how he thinks his life and his porn would change if he were a wheelchair user, but I also ask him what he thought about the porn that I did, too. He shares a little bit about his experiences we sex work & disability, reveals for the first time tha...

Episode Notes Quarantine & Chill is back, but renamed Palsy and The Pandemic! In this episode of Palsy and the Pandemic, I sit down with Ms Wheelchair Pennsylvania 2018 herself, Barb Zablotney who shares with us her experience as someone with a disability who contracted Covid-19. We talk about the rise of medical ableism, horrible hospital care during this time, disabled community members who...

Episode Notes In this episode, I sit down with gay sex columnist Bobby Box as we explore how he can better represent disabled people in gay sex writing.  We explore what would happen if disability was always included as a part of sex writing, we talk maybe doing a disabled sex column together, we parse through some of Bobby’s writing and explore where disability could be included + a whole lot mor...

Episode Notes Quarantine & Chill is back, but renamed Palsy and The Pandemic!  In this episode of Palsy and the Pandemic, I sit down with 14 year old disability activist Anja Herrman  who shares with us how her experience with Cerebral Palsy and quadriplegia have been affected by Covid-19.  She also shares with us why online learning is a blessing for her in terms of access, the problems with...

Episode Notes In this episode, I sit down with Allie Pauld as we talk about her diagnosis of limb girdle muscular dystrophy. We talk about her experiences of inaccessibility in Montreal.  We talk about privilege, invisible disabilities, misogyny and disability, coming out as disabled, being a black disabled person and a whole lot more!  Follow Allie on Insta: https://www.instagram.com/lonelyallie/...

Episode Notes Surprise! My friends Tony and Jamie have started their own podcast called "Cripple Threat" where they review disability media and talk about being disabled. They asked me to come on their show and review "My Left Foot" with them, and I said yes. I also wanted to give their show an opportunity to grow and be heard, since disability themed media is rarely given a pl...

Episode Notes In this episode, I sit down with my friend and content creator Aaron Ansuini. We talk about his experiences with gastroparesis, EDS, and sexuality.  He shares with us his feelings of guilt in the bedroom, how people get annoyed by his number of identities, why there are moments when Drew hates the disabled community, prosthetics peens, and a whole lot more.   Enjoy!   Follow Aaron’s...

Episode Notes Support Disability After Dark by pledging to the patreon. www.patreon.com/disabilityafterdark In this episode, I sit down with Artie Carden, a Youtuber from Brighton, UK. We talk about their experiences getting diagnosed with Crohn’s, BPD, Takayasu’s, fatphobia in the medical system, how disability impacts friendships and relationships.  We talk about accessibility, clothing, Artie’s...

Episode Notes In episode 227, I sit down with child actor, musician, life coach and fellow podcaster Brian Falduto as we give him a chance to explore questions he has a gay, cis, able-bodied, queer white man around disability. We examine how we can connect disability and mindfulness, why you should look at a disabled person on the street, how Brian feels gratitude for not being disabled (and all t...

Episode Notes Please support Disability After Dark by pledging to the patreon. www.patreon.com/disabilityafterdark In episode 226, I talk with the Production Assistant of  the Gayish Podcast and newly identified disabled person, and hottie, Dan Garlington.  He comes out as disabled for the first time on the show and we talk about his triumvirate of disabilities; hard of hearing, migraines and chro...

Episode Notes In Episode 225, I re-invigorate the reviewing of disabled films and rename it Great Flix & Joysticks.   On the episode today, I review Hulu’s offering, a movie called “Run”, highlighting a disabled teen and her overbearing and scary mother.  In this movie we see a real life disabled person in the role as a disabled person.  We explore how disability is used in this film to create...

Episode Notes Episode 224 - How To Use Your Stump As a Kitchen Tool w/ Alexis Hillyard      In Episode 224, I sit down with my friend Alexis Hillyard star of the Stump Kitchen Youtube channel as we talk about her experiences in the kitchen with a limb difference; why she uses her stump as a kitchen utensil, the importance of accessibility in the kitchen, as well as parenting with a limb difference...

Episode Notes In Episode 223, I sit down with 18 year old Wrigley as she shares with us her experiences being diagnosed with autism and trying to navigate this diagnosis on a college campus.  She tells us that her Disability Supports office is the worst, we talk about the energy she expends trying to fit into social situations as an autistic person and a whole lot more.  Enjoy!  You can follow Wri...

Episode Notes In Episode 222, I sit down with Daddy Kristofer, co-host of Watts The Safeword and kinkster as we explore kink, leather and disability and of course, flirt with one another for an hour.  I answer Daddy’s burning questions about sex and disability, we explore how his Daddyhood might change were he to become a wheelchair user and a whole lot more.  Enjoy!  You can follow Daddy Kristofe...

Episode Notes “It was interdependent magic. Like it really felt like magic.” Happy solstice! They’re the four best friends anyone could have. On the last Crip Times episode of 2020, all three hosts (Kayla, Kristina, Yousef) are joined by Jess Watkin, an artist, activist, academic, dramaturg, and most importantly, friend of the pod.  We spend some time laughing about how we all became friends throu...

Episode Notes In Episode 221, I sit down with three people in Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada who share with us the dismal disability housing options in Halifax forcing disabled people to live in seniors homes or institutions.  April tells us about how she was also put in an institution after having a routine procedure in hospital, and how she feels less than human.  Vicky talks about her experiences...

Episode Notes This week, Kayla and Yousef are joined by Jeff Thomas, a Governor General Award-winning Indigenous photographer. Jeff provides us with some background on his photographic work which began in the 1970s as a response to the representation of Indigenous people through historical photography, and how it has grown and changed since becoming disabled. Jeff talks about turning photographs u...

Episode Notes In Episode 220, I got to sit down with sex researcher Dr. Justin Lehmiller .  In this episode we explore how we can make sex research more inclusive and less ableist, and I also give Justin a chance to ask me questions so that his sex research is all the more anti ableist.  Enjoy!  You can follow Dr. Justin Lehmiller on Twitter: https://twitter.com/JustinLehmiller    You can get 50%...

Episode Notes “The piece is an opportunity for me to let the public see an artist who is working hard at resisting the impulse to work hard.” This week, Yousef and Kristina are joined by Cindy Baker, a contemporary artist whose work engages with queer, gender, race, disability, fat, and art discourses. We recorded this episode in the summer, but we think you’ll find it really speaks to the end-of-...

Episode Notes On this episode of The Handicast, Heather and Drew sit down with disabled model and contributor to the Handi Book & #RethinkSexy campaign, Pansy St. Battie ( www.instagram.com/pansystbattie ) all about representation in the modelling world, Pansy’s runway roll and a whole lot more.   Enjoy!   You can order your copy of The Handi Book of Love, Lust and Disability  right now at: ht...

Episode Notes In Episode 219, I got to talk to a really hot porn star; Banging British Babe John Thomas…. About his neurodivergent identities living with dyspraxia and dyslexia, and how that has affected him throughout his life as a kid, in dance school; and he tells us how those invisible disabilities played a role in his MA thesis on movement + we explore why his neurodivergent identities could...

Episode Notes Everybody gets dressed—but how can fashion be a tool of social justice? This week, Kayla and Kristina sit down with Dr. Ben Barry, Chair of Fashion at Ryerson University. We talk about how we can imagine fashion beyond ‘the ideal body,’ how Ben and others are working to diversify fashion education, and how we can crip fashion, meaning create desirable clothes made by and for disabled...