Ep. 23 - Disability and Relationships

01/09/23 • 61 min

In this week’s episode, Shruti and Harper discuss disability and relationships. They each share their experiences with platonic relationships, and the impact their disabilities have had on their friendships, communities, and social lives. Shruti also shares some of her dating experiences as a brown, disabled lesbian, and Harper discusses queerplatonic relationships as an aromantic asexual autistic person. With different types of disabilities, educational backgrounds, and other identities, Harper and Shruti compare and contrast the many ways disability can affect relationships.

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Ep. 22 - The Internet's Impact on Disabled Experiences feat. Kendall Wack

On this week’s episode of The Disabled Standard, Harper and Shruti are joined by guest Kendall Wack to talk about the impact of the internet on disabled experiences. Kendall tells the story of how the internet led to their ADHD diagnosis, Shruti discusses her relationship with Twitter as a disabled journalist, and Harper shares her experience with disability in fandom. Together, they discuss the positive and negative aspects of the internet as a disability community and identity tool—including how this is often overlooked or devalued.

Kendall Wack is a queer, neurodivergent writer and editor based in Chicago, IL. They hold a double B.A. in English-Creative Writing and French Literature and Language from Loyola University-Chicago. She has found that the written word is one of the most powerful ways for like-minded people to connect, and she aspires to use her voice to break down taboos and the barriers they create. In addition to writing, they are also the co-host of the social justice-poetry fusion podcast, Poetically Speaking. You can find her on Instagram at @hopelesspoetesse and stay tuned for Poetically Speaking season two coming soon!

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Ep. 24 - The 10 Principles of Disability Justice

In the season 2 finale, Harper and Shruti discuss the 10 Principles of Disability Justice as articulated by Patty Berne and Sins Invalid. The 10 Principles are foundational to intersectional disability justice work and foundational to the Disabled Standard's mission and vision. In every episode—from disability identity to medicalization to media analyses—examples, illustrations, and discussions of the 10 Principles can be found. In this season 2 finale, Harper and Shruti take you directly to the principles themselves. They revisit important topics like intersectionality and access needs within a different framework, discuss new (to the pod) topics like anti-capitalism policies, and provide contexts to terms they've been using throughout the seasons like collective liberation.

To follow along, you can find a pdf of the 10 Principles of Disability Justice here: https://static1.squarespace.com/static/5bed3674f8370ad8c02efd9a/t/5f1f0783916d8a179c46126d/1595869064521/10_Principles_of_DJ-2ndEd.pdf

Thank you and all credit to Patty Berne and Sins Invalids. Check out their work here: https://www.sinsinvalid.org/

Thank you for listening and supporting The Disabled Standard this season! You can follow The Disabled Standard on Instagram @disabledstandard and on Twitter @disabledspod to stay up to date on what's next for Shruti, Harper, and the podcast.