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
Episodes
21 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...
Envisioning "The Country of the Blind" with Andrew Leland, Professional Blindness Deconstructor & Pulitzer Prize Finalist
Retinitus Pigmentosa, an inherited eye disease that progressively narrows the visual field, affects approximately 100,000 Americans. Andrew Leland leads us through his own narrative of living with this sensory disability while exploring the mea...
“Inspiration Porn: Are We Heroic or Tragic?” A Lively Rant with Disability Activist Lawrence Carter-Long
"Crip Camp” Documentary 2020. Produced by Barack & Michelle Obama. Streaming on NETFLIX. (Academy Award nominated)“My Octopus Teacher” Best Documentary 2020 Academy Award Recipient.DisArt Instagram, ...
"My Karma Ran Over Your Dogma: Was I a Warlord in My Past Life?" Robert Thurman, Professor Emeritus of Indo-Tibetan Buddhist Studies Columbia University; Co-Founder of Tibet House, NYC
Sally & Bob discuss his comment to her after she broke her neck, in which he told her that she had, "burned off karma."Books by Robert Thurman: Infinite Life: Awakening to Bliss Within; Inner Revolution: Life, Liberty and the Pu...
"Chaos or Karma : Does everything happen for a reason?" with Ganden Thurman, Executive Director of Tibet House
TIBET HOUSE {Dedicated to preserving and promoting Tibetan culture, one of several cultural embassies founded by His Holiness the Dalai Lama.}Address: 22 W 15th St.NYC E-mail:info@thus.org
"Deconstructing Covid Denialism" with Julia Doubleday & Miles Griffis
The Gauntlet Substack by Julia Doubleday (https://www.thegauntlet.news/)"The Sick Times” Co-Founder/Co-Editor Miles Griffis (https://thesicktimes.org/)
James Hollis, PhD, Jungian Analyst: "Emerging From a Dark Night of the Soul"
Author of The Middle Passage : From Misery to Meaning in Midlife & Swamplands of the Soul: New Life in Dismal Places
"At the Center of All Beauty" : Loneliness or Solitude? featuring author Fenton Johnson
Cross-Genre writer Fenton Johnson discusses living as a “Solitary”, his recent book At the Center of All Beauty: Solitude and the Creative Life & its relevance for those whose lives have been transformed by physical disability while ...
Covid Collision Course: Not Dead Yet? - Julia Doubleday {Investigative Journalist/Essayist}
A data-driven Public Health clarification/discussion with historical instances of previous American medical misconceptions, about how Covid isn't over for those with physical disability related medical vulnerability.
“You Say Inclusive…..We Say Non-Exclusive” Rabbi Benjamin Weiner
A Judaic perspective on becoming physically disabled & being part of the Jewish Community of Amherst. Irish Lit scholar {Samuel Beckett & James Joyce}, family farmer and Reconstructionist Rabbi Ben Weiner, does a deep dive into the theo...
Disability Policy Prodigy: Colin Killick
Executive Director of the Disability Policy Consortium of Massachusetts, Colin Killick, offers updates & commentary on discrepancy in critical health care for the physically disabled during the pandemic & its aftermath, while reviewing ...
“Show Me the Way to Go Home” featuring Peter Hepburn, Associate Director of The Eviction Lab, Princeton University
Such Grace: Andre Dubus ll featuring Andrea Ivanov-Craig, PhD and Rev. Jep Streit
MacArthur “Genius Grant” recipient , short story writer Andre Dubus ll, was hit by a car on a highway in Massachusetts @ age 50, sustaining disabling injuries that disabled him until his death 12 years later. Andrea Ivanov-Craig, author...
Michael Blumenthal: A Poet in Pain (who loves primates)
Books: Sympathetic Magic, No Hurry: Poems 2000-2012, Dusty Angel, All My Mothers and Fathers: A Memoir.
ZEN & the Dharma of Disability: "Don't just do something. Sit there!"
Bob Waldinger, MD, Zen Priest; Tom Bachman, Practice Leader of HANK Sangha on spiritual practice inclusivity.