Disability Daily Podcast

Transcript Today we celebrate Deaf American stunt person and speed racer, Kitty O’Neil. ---- Hello and welcome to the Disability Daily Podcast! I’m your host, Katie, and over the past couple years, I’ve worked on a 365-day calendar that recognizes different folks and key moments in disability history each day of the year. I’m turning this into a quick daily podcast, and I’m excited to share this w...

Transcript Today we remember Deafblind American student Helen Siefert. ---- Hello and welcome to the Disability Daily Podcast! I’m your host, Katie, and over the past couple years, I’ve worked on a 365-day calendar that recognizes different folks and key moments in disability history each day of the year. I’m turning this into a quick daily podcast, and I’m excited to share this with you! If you’r...

Transcript Today we explore colorblind Spanish artist Neil Harbisson’s Eyeborg and celebrate American amputee explorer Albert Lin. ---- Hello and welcome to the Disability Daily Podcast! I’m your host, Katie, and over the past couple years, I’ve worked on a 365-day calendar that recognizes different folks and key moments in disability history each day of the year. I’m turning this into a quick dai...

Transcript Today we celebrate World Down Syndrome Day and the birthdays of disability rights activist and musician Kalyn Heffernan and deaf botanist Thomas Meehan. ---- Hello and welcome to the Disability Daily Podcast! I’m your host, Katie, and over the past couple years, I’ve worked on a 365-day calendar that recognizes different folks and key moments in disability history each day of the year....

Transcript Today we celebrate Willie Brown, a California politician and former Mayor of San Francisco with retinitis pigmentosa. ---- Hello and welcome to the Disability Daily Podcast! I’m your host, Katie, and over the past couple years, I’ve worked on a 365-day calendar that recognizes different folks and key moments in disability history each day of the year. I’m turning this into a quick daily...

Transcript Today we remember Dr. Peter Radtke -- German actor, playwright,  disability advocate, and Romance Language scholar with osteogenesis imperfecta. ---- Hello and welcome to the Disability Daily Podcast! I’m your host, Katie, and over the past couple years, I’ve worked on a 365-day calendar that recognizes different folks and key moments in disability history each day of the year. I’m turn...

Transcript Today we remember Deaf American actor Richard Biggs & Japanese engineer Seiichi Miyake, whose tactile paving increases accessibility for blind folks. ---- Hello and welcome to the Disability Daily Podcast! I’m your host, Katie, and over the past couple years, I’ve worked on a 365-day calendar that recognizes different folks and key moments in disability history each day of the year....

Transcript Today we recognize American actor & disability advocate Gary Sinise (Lieutenant Dan in Forrest Gump). ---- Hello and welcome to the Disability Daily Podcast! I’m your host, Katie, and over the past couple years, I’ve worked on a 365-day calendar that recognizes different folks and key moments in disability history each day of the year. I’m turning this into a quick daily podcast, an...

Transcript Today we celebrate blind American civil rights lawyer and federal judge, Dr. David Tatel! ---- Hello and welcome to the Disability Daily Podcast! I’m your host, Katie, and over the past couple years, I’ve worked on a 365-day calendar that recognizes different folks and key moments in disability history each day of the year. I’m turning this into a quick daily podcast, and I’m excited to...

Transcript Today we honor Deaf Holocaust survivor Harry Dunai (Izrael Deutsch). ---- Hello and welcome to the Disability Daily Podcast! I’m your host, Katie, and over the past couple years, I’ve worked on a 365-day calendar that recognizes different folks and key moments in disability history each day of the year. I’m turning this into a quick daily podcast, and I’m excited to share this with you!...

Transcript Today we recognize English composer and polio survivor Carey Blyton and American gymnast Simone Biles! ---- Hello and welcome to the Disability Daily Podcast! I’m your host, Katie, and over the past couple years, I’ve worked on a 365-day calendar that recognizes different folks and key moments in disability history each day of the year. I’m turning this into a quick daily podcast, and I...

Transcript Today we remember I. King Jordan’s appointment as the first Deaf president of Gallaudet University in 1988 and Deaf Swiss naturalist Charles Bonnet. ---- Hello and welcome to the Disability Daily Podcast! I’m your host, Katie, and over the past couple years, I’ve worked on a 365-day calendar that recognizes different folks and key moments in disability history each day of the year. I’m...

Transcript Today we celebrate the Capitol Crawl protest in 1990, double amputee Dr. Tammy Duckworth & British polio survivor Robin Cavendish. ---- Hello and welcome to the Disability Daily Podcast! I’m your host, Katie, and over the past couple years, I’ve worked on a 365-day calendar that recognizes different folks and key moments in disability history each day of the year. I’m turning this i...

Transcript Today we celebrate American Deaf author, poet & teacher George Teegarden. ---- Hello and welcome to the Disability Daily Podcast! I’m your host, Katie, and over the past couple years, I’ve worked on a 365-day calendar that recognizes different folks and key moments in disability history each day of the year. I’m turning this into a quick daily podcast, and I’m excited to share this...

Transcript Today we remember Canadian disability rights activist Theresa Ducharme and Chinese-Malaysian epidemiologist Dr. Wu Lien-teh. ---- Hello and welcome to the Disability Daily Podcast! I’m your host, Katie, and over the past couple years, I’ve worked on a 365-day calendar that recognizes different folks and key moments in disability history each day of the year. I’m turning this into a quic...

Transcript Today we celebrate blind Turkish artist Eşref Armağan! ---- Hello and welcome to the Disability Daily Podcast! I’m your host, Katie, and over the past couple years, I’ve worked on a 365-day calendar that recognizes different folks and key moments in disability history each day of the year. I’m turning this into a quick daily podcast, and I’m excited to share this with you! If you’re com...

Transcript Today we examine the case of Lesli Jacobs, born with congenital rubella syndrome, whose parents’ wrongful birth case raises important questions around disability rights, reproductive choice & medical ethics. ---- Hello and welcome to the Disability Daily Podcast! I’m your host, Katie, and over the past couple years, I’ve worked on a 365-day calendar that recognizes different folks a...

Transcript Today we celebrate Underground Railroad conductor Harriet Tubman, who had epilepsy, and British disability rights lawyer Caroline Gooding. ---- Hello and welcome to the Disability Daily Podcast! I’m your host, Katie, and over the past couple years, I’ve worked on a 365-day calendar that recognizes different folks and key moments in disability history each day of the year. I’m turning th...

Transcript Today we remember Lorenza Böttner, a transgender Chilean-German artist without arms; Alexander Graham Bell’s address to Deaf students at Gallaudet University warning against intermarriage between deaf individuals in 1891; the start of the Deaf President Now protest in 1988; and the ADAPT’s Hollywood Walk of Shame protest in 1988. ---- Hello and welcome to the Disability Daily Podcast! I...

Transcript Today we recognize quadriplegic American disability rights advocate Dr. Lex Frieden and Dr. Chuzo Okuda, the first deaf Japanese person to receive a doctorate. ---- Hello and welcome to the Disability Daily Podcast! I’m your host, Katie, and over the past couple years, I’ve worked on a 365-day calendar that recognizes different folks and key moments in disability history each day of the...

Transcript Today we honor disability activist, writer, and performer Cheryl Marie Wade, who had rheumatoid arthritis and used a wheelchair. ---- Hello and welcome to the Disability Daily Podcast! I’m your host, Katie, and over the past couple years, I’ve worked on a 365-day calendar that recognizes different folks and key moments in disability history each day of the year. I’m turning this into a...

Transcript Today we celebrate Taiwanese disability rights activist Chen Chieh-ju & blind French mathematician Bernard Morin. ---- Hello and welcome to the Disability Daily Podcast! I’m your host, Katie, and over the past couple years, I’ve worked on a 365-day calendar that recognizes different folks and key moments in disability history each day of the year. I’m turning this into a quick daily...

Transcript Today we recognize deafened Czech composer Bedřich Smetana. ---- Hello and welcome to the Disability Daily Podcast! I’m your host, Katie, and over the past couple years, I’ve worked on a 365-day calendar that recognizes different folks and key moments in disability history each day of the year. I’m turning this into a quick daily podcast, and I’m excited to share this with you! If you’r...

Transcript Today we observe International Wheelchair Day, Day of Zero Discrimination, & Disability Day of Mourning, and kick off Developmental Disabilities Awareness Month!  ---- Hello and welcome to the Disability Daily Podcast! I’m your host, Katie, and over the past couple years, I’ve worked on a 365-day calendar that recognizes different folks and key moments in disability history each day...

Transcript Today we celebrate disability rights activists Bob Kafka (quadriplegia) and Stella Young (osteogenesis imperfecta)! ---- Hello and welcome to the Disability Daily Podcast! I’m your host, Katie, and over the past couple years, I’ve worked on a 365-day calendar that recognizes different folks and key moments in disability history each day of the year. I’m turning this into a quick daily p...