Secret Lives of the Disabled
Performance Artist Sally Greenhouse survived a catastrophic car accident that left her with a broken neck and spinal cord injury. "Secret Lives of the Disabled" is a podcast that has as its focus individuals who become disabled in America due to accidents, chronic illnesses and debilitating pain often plunging them into poverty, housing insecurity and extreme isolation while rendering them as expendable Americans. This podcast features guests from every profession addressing the consequences faced by formerly able bodied people, in mutually interactive conversations with Greenhouse, that include her chronicle of how she survives physical disability.
“Razor sharp observations.” - Bay Windows
“Mordantly funny…Swiftian humor.” - The New York Times
“Thinking person's performance artist…hilarious & harrowing.” - The Boston Globe
"Secret Lives of the Disabled" is commercial free, funded by a grant from the New England Foundation for the Arts.
www.SecretLivesoftheDisabled.com
Secret Lives of the Disabled
Latest Episodes
Sally Greenhouse: "Faraway Island" [A Nantucket Allegory About Becoming Physically Disabled] with Post-Performance Q & A
Live performance in New York City, written & performed by Sally Greenhouse. An allegory about becoming physically disabled. Compliments of Dixon Place
"Avalanche of Adversity: Can Resilience Be Cultivated?” featuring George Bonnano, PhD Researcher/Author; The End of Trauma
Sally Greenhouse and Psychologist George Bonnano get into a thought provoking interchange about the relative prevalence of Post Traumatic Stress Disorder.About George Bonnano
"Dancing Disability: Inhabiting Every Body Beautifully" - Heidi Latsky, Dancer/Choreographer/Artistic Director
www.HeidiLatskyDance.orgHeidi Latsky solo (40 second excerpt)ON DISPLAY / Lincoln...
"Just the Facts Ma’am” featuring Dan Ariely, PhD
Professor Dan Ariely, researcher in Behavioral Economics, whose TED talks have been seen by 27 million, weighs in on his latest book release MISBELIEF: What Makes Rational People Believe Irrational Things, as host performance artist/broken neck...
Canaries in a Coal Mine: "Wake up and smell the chemicals!" featuring Dr. Liza Grandia
Liza Grandia, PhD, is a Professor & Chair in the Dept of Native American Studies @ University of California, Davis, where she teaches both doctoral students and undergrads in an interdisciplinary program with a hemispheric focus on In...