Disability Saves the World with Dr. Fady Shanouda: Recent Episodes
Fady Shanouda
This podcast brings you insights from leading experts in disability and mad studies from around the world. You’ll hear about the research and work of disabled scholars, activists, artists and our allies. You’ll also get some insight into their lives - their favourite non-DS activities, hobbies, and adventures. Most importantly, however, you’ll get to hear how they think disability can save the world…
In today's show, I am joined by Lauren Munro, a mad scholar and fat activist, a limited-term faculty member at Toronto Metropolitan University, and a PhD Candidate at Wilfrid Laurier University. We talk about her work with the Empowerment Council at CAMH where, alongside Lucy Costa, they teach psychiatric medical resident students a course called "Centering Madness." We discuss the challenges and benefits of educating future psychiatrists about mad studies and consider how this might be one way that disability can save the world…
Academic Crush: Caleb Luna, Merrick Pilling, and Eli Clare
Currently reading: Queer and Trans Madness: Struggles for Social Justice by Merrick Pilling - The Stories Around Us, Edited by Rana Khan (associated email address is Anthology20rf@gmail.com)
As always, a complete transcript of this podcast is available on my website: fadyshanouda.com
Content Warning - Mention of Suicide
In today's show, I am joined by Dr. Merrick Pilling (@chillingwithdr.pilling), an Assistant Professor in Women’s and Gender Studies at the University of Windsor. We talk about his two new books - Queer and Trans Madness: Struggles for Social Justice and Interrogating Psychiatric Narratives of Madness: Documented Lives co-edited with Dr. Andrea Daley. We also discuss the importance of Mad Studies-based interventions, the absence of racialized and queer and trans mad people’s experiences in the field, the challenges of academic publishing, and of course, the different ways disability can save the world…
Academic crush: Dr. Sami Schalk - Black Disability Politics
Currently reading: People Change, Little Fish, Five Little Indians, and Honey Butter Pig Bread
Event: Book Launch for Queer and Trans Madness: Struggles for Social Justice. June 12th, 2022 at 3:00 pm EST. Registration (free): https://tinyurl.com/3nzwbke4
Check out the website for more info: https://www.uwindsor.ca/wgst/StrugglesForSocialJustice
In today's show, I am joined by Megan Linton, a Ph.D. student of the Department of Sociology and Political Economy at Carleton University, and Sarah Jama, co-founder and executive director of the Disability Justice Network of Ontario in Hamilton Ontario. We talk about their new campaign to abolish long-term care in Canada, and the ways that disability can save the world.
Click here to learn more about the Disability Justice Network of Ontario.
Click here to sign the petition to abolish long-term care.
In today's show, I am joined by Dr. Adam Davies, an Assistant Professor at the Department of Family Relations & Applied Nutrition at Guelph University, an Ontario Registered Early Childhood Educator (RECE) and an Ontario Certified Teacher, Primary-Junior. We talk about the important interventions in early childhood education that a mad studies perspective brings, the significance of lived experiences for teaching in the classroom, and the ways that disability can save the world.
Academic crush: Brenda A. LeFrancois and Ryan Thorneycroft
Currently reading: Sensemaking: The Power of the Humanities in the Age of the Algorithm by Christian Madsbjerg, and Saving Normal by Allen Frances
In today's show, I am joined by Dr. Xuan Thuy Nguyen, an Associate Professor at Carleton University at the Institute of Interdisciplinary Studies & the Pauline Jewett Institute of Women's and Gender Studies and the Department of Sociology and Anthropology. We talk about decolonial disability studies, the work of doing research in global south countries, and the impact of southern theories on the meaning of disability. We also discuss how she thinks disability can save the world.
Academic crush: Eunjung Kim, Karen Soldatic, and Shawn Grech
Currently reading: Dis/ability in the Americas by Chantal Figueroa and David Hernández-Saca, Curative Violence by Eunjung Kim, Disability and Other Human Questions by Dan Goodley
Learn more about the Decolonial Disability Studies Collective (DDSC) here.
In today's show, I am joined by Dr. Jihan Abbas, an instructor in the School of Disability Studies at Ryerson University and a researcher at DAWN-RAFH Canada, the DisAbled Women's Network. We talk about her experiences studying DS, her concern about the lack of access to vaccines for disabled people, and how she thinks disability can save the world.
DAWN-RAFH Canada - https://www.dawncanada.net/
Sins Invalid - https://www.sinsinvalid.org/
Comic Books - Ms. Marvel (Kamala Khan)
In today's special episode, I bring you a conference-presentation-style podcast in collaboration with the research project, Bodies in Translation: Activist Art, Technology and Access to Life.
This episode acts as our conference submission to the 2021 Arts in Society conference in Perth, Australia. In the episode, we discuss what barriers to the arts and artistry exist both on the ground and online in Canada for people with disabilities and examine creative, pedagogical, and technological interventions aimed at expanding access both structurally and epistemologically.
Regular episodes of DSTW will return soon!
Guest Bios:
Carla Rice, Professor, Canada Research Chair, College of Social and Applied Human Sciences, University of Guelph, and founder of Re•Vision: The Centre for Art and Social Justice. Principal Investigator and Co-Director (with Dr. Eliza Chandler) of Bodies in Translation: Activist Art, Technology and Access to Life
Eliza Chandler, Assistant Professor, School of Disability Studies at X University, Co-Director (with Dr. Carla Rice) of Bodies in Translation: Activist Art, Technology and Principal Investigator of Accessing the Arts: Centring Disability Perspectives in Accessibility Initiatives
Chelsea Temple Jones, Assistant Professor, Department of Child and Youth Studies, Brock University. Research Associate, Re•Vision Centre for Art and Social Justice, and Principal Investigator of Troubling Vocalities: Disability and Deaf Art in Rural Canada.
Rana El Kadi, Ph.D. in Music (Ethnomusicology), University of Alberta. Research Associate, Re•Vision Centre for Art and Social Justice and Co-founder Emergent Futures CoLab and host of Talking Uncertainty
Kimberlee Collins, Research Assistant, Re•Vision Centre for Art and Social Justice, and doctoral student at the Dalla Lana School of Public Health, University of Toronto.
Fady Shanouda, Assistant Professor, The Pauline Jewett Institute for Women’s and Gender Studies, Carleton University
In today's episode, I am for the first time joined by a group of folks. They are Dr. Kelly Fritsch, Dr. Anne McGuire, and Eduardo Trejos. We talk about their collective project, a children's book called We Move Together and of course, we discuss how they think disability can save the world. We Move Together, AK Press by Kelly Fritsch, Anne McGuire, and Eduardo Trejos
Learn more about the book, including where you can purchase it at wemovetogether.ca or email them at hello@wemovetogether.ca Check out Kelly’s work at kellyfritsch.ca You can also @ them here: @kellyfritsch1 @wmtbook @annemcguire @edtrejos
In today's show, I am joined by Alan Martino, an instructor at the Woman's and Gender Studies program at the University of Carleton. We discuss his work about the intersection of disability and sexuality by engaging with people labeled with intellectual disabilities and how he thinks disability can save the world.
Academic crush: Dorothy Smith
Currently reading: A Special Hell by Claudia Malacrida
In today's show, I am joined by Dr. Beth Haller, Professor of Mass Communication at Townsend University in the United States. We discuss her current book project about disabled media creators, television, and news, and how she thinks disability can save the world.
Currently reading: Mrs. Everything by Jennifer Weiner
In today's show, I am joined by Dr. Eliza Chandler, Assistant Professor of Disability Studies at Ryerson University and co-director of the Bodies in Translation. We discuss everything cripping the arts, her love of disability scholarship, and how she thinks disability can save the world.
Academic crush - Aimi Hamraie
Currently reading - In the Wake by Christina Sharpe
In today's episode, I speak with Dr. Jeff Preston about his research on digital culture and disability, internet memes, and his love/hate relationship with the 6ix god, Drake. We also discuss how disability can save the world...
Academic Crush - Louis Althusser
Currently reading -
Anti-Oedipus: Capitalism and Schizophrenia by Gilles Deleuze and Félix Guattari
The Interdependency Series by John Scalzi
(PS - my audio is bad...we are working on it, promise).
In today's episode, I speak with Tracy Tidgwell about their activism and work in the fat liberation movement. We discuss the pandemic, the connections between fatness and disability...and Parker Posey is discussed, of course! We also discuss how disability can save the world...
Nobodyisdisposable.org
Crush: Sondra Solovay; Da'Shaun Harrison; Caleb Luna
Book recommendation: Care Work: Dreaming Disability Justice by Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha
In today's episode, I speak with jes sachse about their works and writings as a disabled artist. We discuss their past project Freedom Tube, their poetry and writing, and their love of found street objects. We also discuss how disability can save the world… Crush: Phoebe Wang (https://www.constellationsaudio.com/sounds/resonantbodies/wang); Deborah Peterson-Small (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AnP3HOX_QzQ) Book Recommendation: https://www.publicationstudio.biz/books/curved-against-the-hull/
In this week's episode, I speak with Dr. Chelsea Jones about the massive shift to online teaching in higher education since the start of the pandemic. Chelsea discusses the implications of this shift on the sector, instructors, and students, and describes what it really means to make online teaching accessible. We also discuss her life outside of academia and she answers the question, how can disability save the world...
Academic Crush - dr. nancy via davis halifax Lukewarm book recommendation - Station eleven by E. S. J. Mandel Some works cited in the pod: https://www.chronicle.com/article/ProductivityHappiness/248481 https://www.nytimes.com/2020/03/19/opinion/coronavirus-disabled-health-care.html https://www.insidehighered.com/digital-learning/article/2019/01/16/online-learning-fails-deliver-finds-report-aimed-discouraging https://mason.gmu.edu/~sprotops/OnlineEd.pdf https://www.universityaffairs.ca/opinion/in-my-opinion/accessibility-must-be-more-than-an-add-on-to-online-pedagogy/
In today's episode, I speak with Andrew Gurza - Disability Awareness Consultant and fellow podcaster of the hit show, Disability After Dark. We discuss his activism through the pod, his focus on sexuality and disability, and his life outside of podcasting. He also answers the question: how can disability save the world?
Andrew Gurza - http://www.andrewgurza.com/
https://www.instagram.com/itsandrewgurza/
Andrew’s Podcast - https://podcasts.apple.com/ca/podcast/disabilityafterdark/id1151890990
Crushes
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Emily Ladau - https://wordsiwheelby.com/
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Caron Tueller - https://www.carsontueller.com/
Podcast Recommendation - Wine and Crime Podcast - https://wineandcrimepodcast.com/
Audio Book Recommendation - The Chronicles of Naria by C.S. Lewis
In today's show, I speak with Dr. Jenna Reid about her research involving textiles, her joy for everything earl grey tea and punk rock, and how she thinks - maybe - disability can save the world...
Academic Crush - None. Get your act together academia.
Book Recommendation - Lilith's Brood by Octavia Butler
In today's episode, I speak with Dr. Sona Kazemi about her forthcoming book, her new model of disability, and everything to do with resistance against the current Iranian state. I speak with her about her love of poetry and art, and of course, ask her how disability can save the world...
Dr. Sona Kazemi - https://sonakazemi.wordpress.com/
Academic Crush - Dr. Shokoufeh Sakahi - https://yorku.academia.edu/ShokoufehSakhi
Book Recommendation -
Torture in the Name of Allah: Ghezelhesar Prison by Iraj Mesdaghi (Author), Sepehr Manochehri (Editor, Translator)
Ghosts of Revolution: Rekindled Memories of Imprisonment in Iran by Shahla Talebi
Call for Papers - Review of Disability Studies: An International Journal https://rdsjournal.org/index.php/journal/article/view/963
In today's show, I speak with Dr. Tobin LeBlanc Haley about her work at the intersections of homelessness, urban/rural fringe, disability and race. We discuss her life outside of work - her love of running and 80s music - and she tells us how disability can save the world...
Shout out to Re*Vision Centre for Arts and Social Justice at the University of Guelph for their support of Dr. Haley's work.
Dr. Tobin LeBlanc Haley - tlhaley.com
Academic Crushes - Dr. Sami Schalk - @DrSamiSchalk/ Simone Schmidt - https://www.fiverfiverfiver.com/.
Book Recommendations - The Marrow Thieves by Cherie Dimaline/ A Boy Called Bat by Elana K. Arnold
In today's episode, I speak with Danielle Landry, Ph.D. Candidate about her research on consumer-run businesses (run by people with mental health and addictions histories), her love of running, and how she thinks disability can save the world...
Academic Crush - Nirmala Erevelles - https://www.palgrave.com/gp/book/9780230100183b
Book Recommendation - Ravi Malhotra - https://www.routledge.com/Disability-Politics-in-a-Global-Economy-Essays-in-Honour-of-Marta-Russell/Malhotra/p/book/9781138887589
In today's episode, I speak with Ph.D. Candidate Anna Chowaniec on her research with individuals with rare disorders. We discuss her passion for 1930s Polish ethnography, her ties to Polish celebrities and of course, I'll ask her, how she thinks disability can save the world...
Anna Chowaniec - https://www.etnologia.uw.edu.pl/en/about-us/people/phd-students/anna-chowaniec-rylke
Academic Crush - 1930s Polish Ethnographies
Book Recommendation https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Witcher
In today's first episode, I speak with Dr. Mary Jean Hande about her research and life outside of academia. She discusses care, interdependence, and how we can learn from the work of disabled and marginalized people in this unprecedented time.
Dr. Mary Jean Hande - https://maryjeanhande.ca/
Academic Crush - https://sonakazemi.wordpress.com/
Book Recommendation - https://www.akpress.org/how-we-get-free.html