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
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 meaning of sightedness/blindedness with refreshing non-binary illuminating the ways in which we see, in the most expansive sense of that word.
The Country of the Blind: A Memoir at the End of Sight
Andrew Leland (now in paperback)
Blindness isn't a tragic binary - it's a rich spectrum (TED Talk)