Rebecca Mitts, Justin Hancock
Palsys With Palsies
Justin Hancock and Bekah Maren Anderson, two disabled faith leaders and activists, explore disability, queerness, and advocacy through humor, compassion, and deep thought. With wide ranging conversations on everything from advocacy in a changing world, to the therapeutic qualities of broadway musicals, Bekah and Justin showcase the complexity, beauty, and creativity of intersectional, disability life. Justin experiences day-to-day life with Cerebral Palsy, and Bekah brings her perspective as a blind queer woman.
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Rebecca Mitts, Justin Hancock
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Jul 10, 2026
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Episodes
PWP 41: Our Comfort Media 04.02.2022 20:16
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 This is pretty short episode, since it was the end of our COVID discussion from last week, but we think it's a good balance. We discuss our comfort media that we go back to tim...
PWP 40: Yup, COVID is Still Here 28.01.2022 34:16
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 reflect on the past two years and how things have changed...and stayed the same. It is a heavier episode, discussing how the disabled commun...
PWP 39: Tik Tok as an Advocacy Platform 14.01.2022 42:17
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 We're finally back! We hope you all had a good holiday season. In this episode, Rebecca and Justin discuss Tik Tok, the social media platform that has really taken over the las...
PWP 38: The Joys and Sorrows of the Holidays 19.12.2021 49:14
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, potentially our last one of 2021, Rebecca and Justin get nostalgic about the holidays. We discuss our childhood traditions, our current ones, and the overzealo...
PWP 37: Found Family 13.12.2021 41:55
Follow us on twitter and facebook! https://twitter.com/PalsysWPalsies https://twitter.com/TheJulWay https://www.facebook.com/Palsys-With-Palsies-Podcast-101220632025180 In this episode, Justin and Rebecca talk about found family. Mostly we discuss how we, and our partners, are each others found family. But we also look at what that really means and what is the mark of someone you choose to be your...
PWP 36: Being a Healer Like Jesus with Rev. Jonathan Campbell 03.12.2021 42:05
Follow us on twitter and facebook! https://twitter.com/PalsysWPalsies https://twitter.com/TheJulWay https://www.facebook.com/Palsys-With-Palsies-Podcast-101220632025180 Listen to "The Accessible God Podcast": https://open.spotify.com/show/0aU4jmSCJyrKe8JcN8g7vx?si=a64956a9c5004395 Opening & ending music: Southern Love by Tencher Music In today's episode, our guest, the Rev. Jonathan Campbell,...
PWP 35: The Julian Way Ministries and Dismantling Normalcy 20.11.2021 50:59
Follow us on twitter and facebook! https://twitter.com/PalsysWPalsies https://twitter.com/TheJulWay https://www.facebook.com/Palsys-With-Palsies-Podcast-101220632025180 How to support The Julian Way: https://thejulianway.org/ Justin's Book: https://read.amazon.com/kp/embed?asin=B07F4B3PS2&preview=newtab&linkCode=kpe&ref_=cm_sw_r_kb_dp_RA8W86ZKMKZVGYK0W7X1 Opening & ending music: Southern Love by T...
PWP 34: It's Nostalgic, But For Who? 13.11.2021 49:39
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, Rebecca and Justin talk about nostalgia in its many forms; individual, collective, simple, complicated, grief bound, and joy filled. We start with our personal...
PWP 33: Nostalgic Horror of Neil Gaiman 05.11.2021 51:31
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: "Skeletons in the Closet" by Bobby Cole In our final Halloween episode, we look at the short story, "Closing Time," by Neil Gaiman. Justin and Rebecca focus on the nostalgic horror that Gaiman is a master o...
PWP 32: The Wonderful Horror of "The Magnus Archives" 26.10.2021 55:53
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: "Skeletons in the Closet" by Bobby Cole Spoilers for the first six episodes of "The Magnus Archives." In our third episode of our horror media series, Justin and Rebecca look at the horror podcast, "The Mag...
PWP 31: Sexuality and Spirituality in "It" (Chapter 2) 19.10.2021 48:05
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: "Skeletons in the Closet" by Bobby Cole TW: mention of homophobic violence, sexual assault Our second part in discussing Stephen King's "It" focuses on three main things; the LGBTQ+ representation, Beverley...
PWP 30: Communal Trauma in "It" (Chapter 1) 12.10.2021 46:42
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: "Skeletons in the Closet" by Bobby Cole TW: mention of suicide, trauma, abuse, racism The beginning of spooky month (at least at Palsys With Palsies) is here! We had to break up our discussion of the "It" s...
PWP: Our Spooky Plan for October 10.10.2021 17:58
Follow us on twitter! https://twitter.com/PalsysWPalsies https://twitter.com/TheJulWay Opening & ending music: "Skeletons in the Closet" by Bobby Cole This is a really episode where Justin and Rebecca go more in depth on their plans for October. We will be looking at "It," "The Magnus Achieves" and some short stories by Neil Gaiman. We hope you will join us for our deep dive into some of our favo...
PWP Extra: Upcoming for Oct 2021! 29.09.2021 2:30
Follow us on twitter! https://twitter.com/PalsysWPalsies https://twitter.com/TheJulWay Opening & ending music: Southern Love by Tencher Music No episode this week, due to illness and life stuff. But we'll be back in October to talk about horror media that affects us as individuals, and as members of our respective communities. We'll be talking about "IT," "The Magnus Archives," and some of Neil Ga...
PWP 28: If You Don't Laugh, You'll Cry 22.09.2021 38:08
Follow us on twitter! https://twitter.com/PalsysWPalsies https://twitter.com/TheJulWay Opening & ending music: Southern Love by Tencher Music In this episode, Justin and Rebecca talk about how humor gets them through hard times. Both of us use humor to process and express our most vulnerable moments, whether it be to distance ourselves from the hardship or in an attempt to connect with others or j...
PWP 27: What is Intentional Community? 14.09.2021 44:38
Follow us on twitter! https://twitter.com/PalsysWPalsies https://twitter.com/TheJulWay Opening & ending music: Southern Love by Tencher Music In this episode, it's just Rebecca and Justin again! So, to connect back to our roots, we discuss when we lived together in intentional community. Intentional community "is a planned residential community designed from the start to have a high degree of soci...
PWP 26: Playfulness and Relationship in the Church 07.09.2021 42:47
Follow us on twitter! https://twitter.com/PalsysWPalsies https://twitter.com/TheJulWay Opening & ending music: Southern Love by Tencher Music Rebecca was visiting family when this episode was recorded, so we brought on a guest! Justin talks to his good friend, Rev. Ken Crawford about how they have collaborated over the years, the state of the church, and looking towards the future of the church. I...
PWP 25: Grief in All Its Forms (ft. Lindsay Wms) 25.08.2021 55:13
Follow us on twitter! https://twitter.com/PalsysWPalsies https://twitter.com/TheJulWay Opening & ending music: Southern Love by Tencher Music In this episode, we talk with Lindsay Wms, a long time friend of Justin's, as well as an anthropologist and grief expert. She sheds light on the multiple kinds of grief, beyond the loss of a person through death; loss of relationships, divorce, a favorite re...
PWP 24: Dating as a Queer Person with a Disability (ft. Matthew Schroeder) 17.08.2021 53:29
Follow us on twitter! https://twitter.com/PalsysWPalsies https://twitter.com/TheJulWay Opening & ending music: Southern Love by Tencher Music In this episode we have a guest! Matthew Schroeder is a mutual friend, a seminary student, and an intern at The Julian Way, Justin's ministry. Matt also has cerebral palsy (the sexiest of the palsies), is pan, and is nonbinary. We discuss dating, both as a q...
PWP 23: How Isolation and the Pandemic Have Affected the Disabilty Community 10.08.2021 50:32
Follow us on twitter! https://twitter.com/PalsysWPalsies https://twitter.com/TheJulWay Opening & ending music: Southern Love by Tencher Music In this episode, we talk in depth about how the pandemic has affected those with disabilities, including some of Justin's friends. We discuss how one of his friends thinks everyone should mask, even if vaccinated, while another thinks once vaccinated you sho...
PWP 22: No Justin is an Island 27.07.2021 25:41
Follow us on twitter! https://twitter.com/PalsysWPalsies https://twitter.com/TheJulWay Opening & ending music: Southern Love by Tencher Music In this super short episode, we chit chat about Justin's recent birthday (his 40th!), aging, and spend maybe too long on the 2005 sci-fi movie, "The Island." Like, it's at least 1/3 of the runtime. Just a chatting episode, but we have some plans for upcomi...
PWP 21: How Many Spoons Do You Have Today? 20.07.2021 52:35
Follow us on twitter! https://twitter.com/PalsysWPalsies https://twitter.com/TheJulWay Opening & ending music: Southern Love by Tencher Music In this episode, Justin and Rebecca talk about spoons! (Not the ones for cereal and soups, sadly.) Spoons is a term used in mental health circles to describe how much mental energy a person has to perform certain tasks or take in information. As a man with a...
PWP 20: Let's Talk About Sex 13.07.2021 1:07:00
Follow us on twitter! https://twitter.com/PalsysWPalsies https://twitter.com/TheJulWay Opening & ending music: Southern Love by Tencher Music In this episode, Justin and Rebecca bring their spouses on the show to discuss sex! We do not get explicit, but we are honest. We talk less about sex acts, and more how growing up with southern, purity culture affected our perception of sex as we got older a...
PWP 19: A Very Special Show 29.06.2021 46:35
Follow us on twitter! https://twitter.com/PalsysWPalsies https://twitter.com/TheJulWay Opening & ending music: Southern Love by Tencher Music In this SPECIAL episode, Justin and Rebecca discuss the Netflix comedy show, "Special," which follows the life of Ryan, a gay young man with cerebral palsy as he gets his dream job and comes into his own. Justin shares his own experiences from his youth from...
PWP 18: Body Neutrality vs. Body Positivity 22.06.2021 57:47
TW: body dysmorphia, body talk Follow us on twitter! https://twitter.com/PalsysWPalsies https://twitter.com/TheJulWay Opening & ending music: Southern Love by Tencher Music In this episode, Justin and Rebecca talk about the body positivity movement, both in regards to women's weight and disabled bodies. While the intention behind "body positivity" is good, it has often left bodies that have chroni...
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