Disability Daily Podcast
Discover a new figure or event in disability history each day!
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Tuesday May 13, 2025
Tuesday May 13, 2025
Transcript
Today we celebrate Seattle-based disability rights advocate with muscular dystrophy Ida Daly & actress with Down Syndrome Lauren Potter.
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Hello and welcome to the Disability Daily Podcast! I’m your host, Katie, and over the past couple years, I’ve worked on a 365-day calendar that recognizes different folks and key moments in disability history each day of the year. I’m turning this into a quick daily podcast, and I’m excited to share this with you!
If you’re committed to learning more about disability and accessibility, please subscribe to the podcast on Podbean, Apple Podcasts, or Spotify and share with friends.
See the Disability Daily Calendar (work on it is always ongoing!)
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Learn more:
Ida Flagler Daly papers, 1953-1975
Seattle Disability Activism Historic Context Study
Lauren Potter (@thelaurenpotter)
Podcast: Glee's Lauren Potter (aka Becky Jackson) Shares About Having Down Syndrome — DNA Today
Song: "It's Kinda Beautiful" by Water Mirrors from Epidemic Sound
Tuesday May 13, 2025
Tuesday May 13, 2025
Transcript
Today we celebrate blind Vietnamese-American chef Christine Hà!
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Hello and welcome to the Disability Daily Podcast! I’m your host, Katie, and over the past couple years, I’ve worked on a 365-day calendar that recognizes different folks and key moments in disability history each day of the year. I’m turning this into a quick daily podcast, and I’m excited to share this with you!
If you’re committed to learning more about disability and accessibility, please subscribe to the podcast on Podbean, Apple Podcasts, or Spotify and share with friends.
See the Disability Daily Calendar (work on it is always ongoing!)
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Learn more:
Christine Ha: The Blind Chef That Competed for MasterChef And Shocked Gordon Ramsay
Christine Ha - YouTube
The Blind Goat
Song: "It's Kinda Beautiful" by Water Mirrors from Epidemic Sound
Tuesday May 13, 2025
Tuesday May 13, 2025
Transcript
Today we celebrate filmmaker and sound designer with spina bifida Jim LeBrecht, Deaf actor Nyle DiMarco, and the anniversary of nonspeaking autistic student Elizabeth Bonker’s valedictorian speech (2022).
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Hello and welcome to the Disability Daily Podcast! I’m your host, Katie, and over the past couple years, I’ve worked on a 365-day calendar that recognizes different folks and key moments in disability history each day of the year. I’m turning this into a quick daily podcast, and I’m excited to share this with you!
If you’re committed to learning more about disability and accessibility, please subscribe to the podcast on Podbean, Apple Podcasts, or Spotify and share with friends.
See the Disability Daily Calendar (work on it is always ongoing!)
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Learn more:
Be the Light: Elizabeth Bonker’s 2022 Valedictorian Speech at Rollins College Commencement
A nonspeaking valedictorian with autism gives her college's commencement speech : NPR
A Conversation with Elizabeth Bonker - Uniquely Human: The Podcast
Elizabeth Bonker & The Bleeding Hearts
‘Crip Camp’ Brings the Inclusion Revolution to the Oscars
Crip Camp: A Disability Revolution (2020; 106 minutes)
Change, Not Charity: The Americans with Disabilities Act (2025; 53 minutes)
Nyle DiMarco
Song: "It's Kinda Beautiful" by Water Mirrors from Epidemic Sound
Friday May 09, 2025
Friday May 09, 2025
Transcript
Today we celebrate Keith McGee, the first disabled veteran in NASCAR history, and National Barrier Awareness Day.
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Hello and welcome to the Disability Daily Podcast! I’m your host, Katie, and over the past couple years, I’ve worked on a 365-day calendar that recognizes different folks and key moments in disability history each day of the year. I’m turning this into a quick daily podcast, and I’m excited to share this with you!
If you’re committed to learning more about disability and accessibility, please subscribe to the podcast on Podbean, Apple Podcasts, or Spotify and share with friends.
See the Disability Daily Calendar (work on it is always ongoing!)
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Learn more:
NASCAR Driver Keith McGee is a ‘Beacon of Hope’ for Veterans
Proclamation 5472 -- National Barrier Awareness Day, 1986 | Ronald Reagan
Song: "It's Kinda Beautiful" by Water Mirrors from Epidemic Sound
Friday May 09, 2025
Friday May 09, 2025
Transcript
Today we recognize Andrew Gurza, a sex-positive podcaster with cerebral palsy.
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Hello and welcome to the Disability Daily Podcast! I’m your host, Katie, and over the past couple years, I’ve worked on a 365-day calendar that recognizes different folks and key moments in disability history each day of the year. I’m turning this into a quick daily podcast, and I’m excited to share this with you!
If you’re committed to learning more about disability and accessibility, please subscribe to the podcast on Podbean, Apple Podcasts, or Spotify and share with friends.
See the Disability Daily Calendar (work on it is always ongoing!)
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Learn more:
Disability in the LGBTQ+ Community | Andrew Gurza Disability After Dark | Queer and Disabled
Podcast: Disability After Dark — Andrew Gurza
Song: "It's Kinda Beautiful" by Water Mirrors from Epidemic Sound
Friday May 09, 2025
Friday May 09, 2025
Transcript
Today we celebrate actor with cerebral palsy Gregg Mozgala, Deaf president of Columbia University Frederick Barnard, and the anniversary of the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines.
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Hello and welcome to the Disability Daily Podcast! I’m your host, Katie, and over the past couple years, I’ve worked on a 365-day calendar that recognizes different folks and key moments in disability history each day of the year. I’m turning this into a quick daily podcast, and I’m excited to share this with you!
If you’re committed to learning more about disability and accessibility, please subscribe to the podcast on Podbean, Apple Podcasts, or Spotify and share with friends.
See the Disability Daily Calendar (work on it is always ongoing!)
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Learn more:
Gregg Mozgala
Art Restart: Gregg Mozgala interview
Barnard, Frederick Augustus Porter - Deaf Suffragists/Activists
Frederick Barnard | Texas Woman's University
Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) 2.1
Song: "It's Kinda Beautiful" by Water Mirrors from Epidemic Sound
Thursday May 08, 2025
Thursday May 08, 2025
Transcript
Today we celebrate Paul Steven Miller, an American lawyer with dwarfism, and Dr. Odette L. Shotwell, an American organic chemist and polio survivor.
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Hello and welcome to the Disability Daily Podcast! I’m your host, Katie, and over the past couple years, I’ve worked on a 365-day calendar that recognizes different folks and key moments in disability history each day of the year. I’m turning this into a quick daily podcast, and I’m excited to share this with you!
If you’re committed to learning more about disability and accessibility, please subscribe to the podcast on Podbean, Apple Podcasts, or Spotify and share with friends.
See the Disability Daily Calendar (work on it is always ongoing!)
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Learn more:
Paul Steven Miller '86 has made it his job to combat workplace discrimination - Harvard Law School
Paul Steven Miller, Who Shaped Labor Laws Protecting The Disabled, Has Died : NPR
Odette L. Shotwell
Song: "It's Kinda Beautiful" by Water Mirrors from Epidemic Sound
Wednesday May 07, 2025
Wednesday May 07, 2025
Transcript
Today we celebrate Latinx poet, spoken word artist & LGBTQ+ activist with hearing loss, Emanuel Xavier.
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Hello and welcome to the Disability Daily Podcast! I’m your host, Katie, and over the past couple years, I’ve worked on a 365-day calendar that recognizes different folks and key moments in disability history each day of the year. I’m turning this into a quick daily podcast, and I’m excited to share this with you!
If you’re committed to learning more about disability and accessibility, please subscribe to the podcast on Podbean, Apple Podcasts, or Spotify and share with friends.
See the Disability Daily Calendar (work on it is always ongoing!)
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Learn more:
Emanuel Xavier
Emanuel Xavier, Poet, Spoken Word Artist, Novelist, Editor, and Activist
Song: "It's Kinda Beautiful" by Water Mirrors from Epidemic Sound
Wednesday May 07, 2025
Wednesday May 07, 2025
Transcript
Today we acknowledge the eugenic legacy of Buck v. Bell (1927), a U.S. Supreme Court case that upheld the forced sterilization of people deemed unfit to reproduce.
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Hello and welcome to the Disability Daily Podcast! I’m your host, Katie, and over the past couple years, I’ve worked on a 365-day calendar that recognizes different folks and key moments in disability history each day of the year. I’m turning this into a quick daily podcast, and I’m excited to share this with you!
If you’re committed to learning more about disability and accessibility, please subscribe to the podcast on Podbean, Apple Podcasts, or Spotify and share with friends.
See the Disability Daily Calendar (work on it is always ongoing!)
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Learn more:
Emma, Carrie, Vivian | Hidden Brain : NPR
The Right to Self-Determination: Freedom from Involuntary Sterilization - Disability Justice
Song: "It's Kinda Beautiful" by Water Mirrors from Epidemic Sound
Wednesday May 07, 2025
Wednesday May 07, 2025
Transcript
Today we recognize quadriplegic American architect Dr. Charles Cofield and Deaf American sculptor Douglas Tilden.
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Hello and welcome to the Disability Daily Podcast! I’m your host, Katie, and over the past couple years, I’ve worked on a 365-day calendar that recognizes different folks and key moments in disability history each day of the year. I’m turning this into a quick daily podcast, and I’m excited to share this with you!
If you’re committed to learning more about disability and accessibility, please subscribe to the podcast on Podbean, Apple Podcasts, or Spotify and share with friends.
See the Disability Daily Calendar (work on it is always ongoing!)
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Learn more:
Behind the Diary: Douglas Tilden
Deaf Heroes: Douglas Tilden
Dr. Charles Cofield
Charles A. Cofield, 1970s | MIT Black History
Song: "It's Kinda Beautiful" by Water Mirrors from Epidemic Sound