Always Looking Up - Prasanna Ranganathan On The Audacity To Be Disabled

Prasanna Ranganathan On The Audacity To Be Disabled

06/05/23 • 71 min

Welcome to Season 2!

In this week’s episode I sat down with Prasanna Ranganathan. Prasanna is a documentary producer, human rights lawyer, diversity, equity, inclusion and belonging (DEIB) consultant, accessibility advisor, speaker, author, correspondent, writer and arts columnist. After talking about our mutual love of all things Broadway we discussed the audacity to thrive and to be disabled, the power and influence of storytelling, how accessibility can not and should not be the end goal, and much, much more.

Follow Prasanna: Website: prasannaranganathan.com Instagram: @prasran Twitter: @PRanganathan LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/prasannaranganathan/

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This episode was edited and produced by Ben Curwin.

Welcome to Season 2!

Follow Prasanna: Website: prasannaranganathan.com Instagram: @prasran Twitter: @PRanganathan LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/prasannaranganathan/

Cookbook Sales Page: https://rupikaur.com/products/made-with-prema-cookbook

Follow Me: Instagram: @jill_ilana , @alwayslookingup.podcast Website: https://www.jillianilana.com Email: [email protected]

This episode was edited and produced by Ben Curwin.

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Sinéad Burke On The Power And Influence Of Disability Representation

In this week’s episode, the 100th episode, I sat down with Sinéad Burke. Sinéad is an Irish author, academic and disability activist. She is the Founder of Tilting The Lens, a disability-led consultancy that advises major global brands, guiding them in their move from awareness to action by creating more accessible practices, policies, products and services, places and promotions. We discuss her career path from fashion blogger to CEO, the shift in asking the fashion industry to design for us, the disabled community, to design with us, the power and influence of disability representation, not just in fashion, and much, much more.

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Dr. Sami Schalk On Black Disability Politics

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In this week’s episode I sat down with Dr. Sami Schalk. Dr. Schalk is an Associate Professor of Gender & Women’s Studies at University of Wisconsin-Madison. Her interdisciplinary research focuses broadly on disability, race, and gender in contemporary American literature and culture. She is the author of the books Bodyminds Reimagined: (Dis)ability, Race, and Gender in Black Women’s Speculative Fiction and Black Disability Politics. We discuss what it means to come into one’s disabled identity, how the portrayal of certain identities in fiction can and do influence real life, where Black Disability Politics intersect and conflict with the mainstream white-dominant disability civil rights movement and much, much more.

Follow Dr. Schalk: Instagram: @fierceblackfemme Twitter: @DrSamiSchalk Website: http://samischalk.com

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This episode was edited and produced by Ben Curwin.