Palsys With Palsies

In this episode, Bekah and Justin talk with The Julian Way member and disability activist, Christian Huber. Christian shares his testimony of moving from narrow evangelicalism to a broad and expansive sense of connection to God's Kindom. He discusses how his journey of identifying as disabled makes that theological journey possible.

In this weeks episode Rebekah and Justin, discuss their mutual love for audiobooks, and how this opened both a love for reading, and a sense of disability empowerment in their lives.

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PwP is now available on the following platforms: Apple Podcasts, Google Podcasts, Spotify, Amazon Music, Pandora, Stitcher, and, iHeartRadio.

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In this week's Episode, Justin & Rebekah reflect on stories of growing up with a disability and talk about ways in which they've learned how to be disabled, or not, from those within their disability community.

Rebekah and I discuss this pressures of consistently, having to have a disability origin, story, ready and waiting for public consumption, as well as the vulnerability of always needing to prove your disability credentials to enter certain disability related conversations.

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In this episode, Justin and Bekah discuss the current state of the United Methodist Church. It is splitting due to a disagreement between conservative and progressive factions within the church over whether or not being gay/queer/a member of the LGBTQIA+ community is "compatible with a Christian life." Within the current Methodist Book of Discipline, it isn't. The discussion today is informative f...

In this episode, Justin and Bekah dig into  vocational rehabilitation, which is a series of services that are designed to facilitate the entrance into or return to work by people with disabilities or by people who have recently acquired an injury or disability. They discuss its history and their own experiences with it, both positive and negative. This is a very informative and personal episode, w...

In this episode, Rebecca Mitts is back! Justin, Bekah, and Rebecca discuss the change in hosts as Rebecca is going back to school. We discuss her future, touch on the future of the podcast, and the two Rebecca's razz Justin making his regret putting them in the same episode! Follow us on Twitter and Facebook ! Donte to the Julian Way so that they can continue to support those with disabilities Her...

In this episode, Bekah and Justin discuss representation in fantasy shows, and jump deeper into disability representation and mechanics in Dungeons and Dragons. This is a part 2 to episode 3 of Palsys with Palsies, "In a Dungeon Far, Far Away."  Links from today's episode DnD Disability Follow us on Twitter and Facebook ! Donte to the Julian Way so that they can continue to support those with disa...

In this episode, Justin and his friend, Bekah Anderson, (not the usual Rebecca), discuss her polyamorous relationships. The term polyamory can be translated to mean "many loves," and Bekah shares her experiences of having many loves, none of which diminish or dominate the others.   Rebecca (the original, at least for this show) and Justin will post a shorter episode soon to give y'all the lay of t...

In today's episode we talk in depth about the candidate for ministry within the Methodist church, Isaac Simmons, and their drag persona, Ms. Penny Cost. In particular the controversy that arose from their slam poem, "The Bible is Nothing." We dig into a lot of stuff, so if you are dealing with religious trauma, this might be a tough one. We are full of support and love for what Isaac has said and...

July is Disability Visibility month! To honor this, and the 32nd anniversary of the ADA (American's with Disabilities Act) being signed into law, Justin gives us a history lesson of the ADA. He was in the process of writing a book about how it came to be when the pandemic hit, and like it did with so many other things, disrupted his plans. But today he gets to share his knowledge of its history, i...

This episode is pretty heavy, as should be expected from the topic of Roe v. Wade being overturned. Justin and Rebecca talk about our feelings on it, as well as how this is a much more complicated issue then most people think. Abortion has been used, both in the past and in the present, as a way to get rid of disability, while the importance of bodily autonomy is incredibly important within the di...

Follow us on Twitter and Facebook ! Donte to the Julian Way so that they can continue to support those with disabilities Here! Here are links to somethings referenced in the show:  'Call Me By Your Name' music video 'Industry Baby' music video 'That's What I Want' music video 'Jolene' cover by Lil Nas X Twitter thread by Dr. Sam Hirst on the CMBYN video's use of demonic imagery and that relationsh...

Follow us on Twitter and Facebook ! Donte to the Julian Way so that they can continue to support those with disabilities Here! In this week's episode we discuss the 2012 movie, "The Sessions," staring John Hawkes and Helen Hunt, which we both deeply enjoyed. Based on the essay, "On Seeing a Sex Surrogate" by writer and poet Mark O'Brien, the film explores Mark's journey of self discovery with sex...

Follow us on Twitter and Facebook ! Donte to the Julian Way so that they can continue to support those with disabilities Here! Below are the links to the articles and organizations referenced in the show: Vanity Fair article, by Joanna Robinson Hollywood Reporter article, by Rebecca Sun Not Dead Yet UK Not Dead Yet US Dignitas Death With Dignity Opening & ending music: Tekilla Sunrise by Jon Press...

Follow us on twitter and facebook! https://twitter.com/PalsysWPalsies https://twitter.com/TheJulWay https://www.facebook.com/Palsys-With-Palsies-Podcast-101220632025180 Donte to the Julian Way so that they can continue to support those with disabilities! https://thejulianway.org/ Opening & ending music: Southern Love by Tencher Music In this episode, Justin asks Rebecca about her experience with s...

Follow us on twitter and facebook! https://twitter.com/PalsysWPalsies https://twitter.com/TheJulWay https://www.facebook.com/Palsys-With-Palsies-Podcast-101220632025180 Donte to the Julian Way so that they can continue to support those with disabilities! https://thejulianway.org/ Opening & ending music: Southern Love by Tencher Music Heyo, we're super late with this one because Rebecca is doing th...

Follow us on twitter and facebook! https://twitter.com/PalsysWPalsies https://twitter.com/TheJulWay https://www.facebook.com/Palsys-With-Palsies-Podcast-101220632025180 Donte to the Julian Way so that they can continue to support those with disabilities! https://thejulianway.org/ Opening & ending music: Southern Love by Tencher Music In this episode we see how Rebecca's soul is! Spoilers, she's he...

Follow us on twitter and facebook! https://twitter.com/PalsysWPalsies https://twitter.com/TheJulWay https://www.facebook.com/Palsys-With-Palsies-Podcast-101220632025180 Opening & ending music: Southern Love by Tencher Music In this episode, Justin and Rebecca discuss disability in stories: movies, TV shows, books, and the Bible. We go between the secular world and the Christian world and how disab...

Follow us on twitter and facebook! https://twitter.com/PalsysWPalsies https://twitter.com/TheJulWay https://www.facebook.com/Palsys-With-Palsies-Podcast-101220632025180 Opening & ending music: Southern Love by Tencher Music In this episode, Justin and his wife, Lisa, take over with one of their "car conversations." The two of them discuss the Disney shows their son Angus watches (usually involving...

Follow us on twitter and facebook! https://twitter.com/PalsysWPalsies https://twitter.com/TheJulWay https://www.facebook.com/Palsys-With-Palsies-Podcast-101220632025180 Rev. Amber's Twitter:  https://twitter.com/rose_mitts Rev. Amber's TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@litrose404 Opening & ending music: Southern Love by Tencher Music In this episode, Rev. Amber Mitts joins her wife, Rebecca, as Just...