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.
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Secret Lives of the Disabled
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 Indigenous peoples of the Americas. An alum of Yale University, with a doctorate in Cultural Anthropology from University of California, Berkeley, Professor Grandia leads a wide ranging academic career that has included A National Science Fdtn grant, seven years of fieldwork in Guatemala, new book release: Kernels of Resistance: Maize, Food Sovereignty, and Collective Power (pub 11.24), and a manuscript-in-progress: Charismatic Chemicals.
The topic of this episode pertains to this recent work, and addresses the disabling effects of human made toxics that exist unregulated in our indoor environments and in common products that cause extreme reactivity leading to physical disability.