Episodes

Monday Mar 10, 2025
March 9: Eşref Armağan
Monday Mar 10, 2025
Monday Mar 10, 2025
Transcript
Today we celebrate blind Turkish artist Eşref Armağan!
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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!
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Learn more about Eşref Armağan:
The Turkish blind painter, Eşref Armağan | Al Jazeera World Documentary
Eşref Armağan - A Blind Artist paints the all new Volvo S60
Song: "It's Kinda Beautiful" by Water Mirrors from Epidemic Sound

Monday Mar 10, 2025
March 8: Lesli Jacobs
Monday Mar 10, 2025
Monday Mar 10, 2025
Transcript
Today we examine the case of Lesli Jacobs, born with congenital rubella syndrome, whose parents’ wrongful birth case raises important questions around disability rights, reproductive choice & medical ethics.
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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:
Making It Right: Preserving Wrongful Birth After Dobbs
Mom at center of 'wrongful birth' debate
Song: "It's Kinda Beautiful" by Water Mirrors from Epidemic Sound

Monday Mar 10, 2025
March 7: Harriet Tubman & Caroline Gooding
Monday Mar 10, 2025
Monday Mar 10, 2025
Transcript
Today we celebrate Underground Railroad conductor Harriet Tubman, who had epilepsy, and British disability rights lawyer Caroline Gooding.
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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 about Harriet Tubman & Caroline Gooding:
Caroline Gooding obituary | Disability | The Guardian
Harriet Tubman
Harriet Tubman | The Woman Who Defied Slavery (documentary)
Song: "It's Kinda Beautiful" by Water Mirrors from Epidemic Sound

Sunday Mar 09, 2025
Sunday Mar 09, 2025
Transcript
Today we remember Lorenza Böttner, a transgender Chilean-German artist without arms; Alexander Graham Bell’s address to Deaf students at Gallaudet University warning against intermarriage between deaf individuals in 1891; the start of the Deaf President Now protest in 1988; and the ADAPT’s Hollywood Walk of Shame protest in 1988.
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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.
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Learn more:
WALK OF SHAME – Tom Olin Collection
Lorenza Böttner - Portrait of an Artist (short Documentary)
Alexander Graham Bell: Marriage : an address to the deaf
The Deaf President Now (DPN) Protest - History | Gallaudet University
Song: "It's Kinda Beautiful" by Water Mirrors from Epidemic Sound

Friday Mar 07, 2025
March 5: Dr. Lex Frieden & Dr. Chuzo Okuda
Friday Mar 07, 2025
Friday Mar 07, 2025
Transcript
Today we recognize quadriplegic American disability rights advocate Dr. Lex Frieden and Dr. Chuzo Okuda, the first deaf Japanese person to receive a doctorate.
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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.
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Learn more:
Lex Frieden (personal website)
Focus on Abilities with Lex Frieden
Chuzo Okuda | Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory
Song: "It's Kinda Beautiful" by Water Mirrors from Epidemic Sound

Friday Mar 07, 2025
March 4: Cheryl Marie Wade
Friday Mar 07, 2025
Friday Mar 07, 2025
Transcript
Today we honor disability activist, writer, and performer Cheryl Marie Wade, who had rheumatoid arthritis and used a wheelchair.
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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 about Cheryl Marie Wade:
Video: Cheryl Marie Wade
Overlooked No More: Cheryl Marie Wade, a Performer Who Refused to Hide
Wry Crips
Song: "It's Kinda Beautiful" by Water Mirrors from Epidemic Sound

Friday Mar 07, 2025
March 3: Chen Chieh-ju & Bernard Morin
Friday Mar 07, 2025
Friday Mar 07, 2025
Transcript
Today we celebrate Taiwanese disability rights activist Chen Chieh-ju & blind French mathematician Bernard Morin.
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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 about Chen Chieh-ju & Bernard Morin
Groups call for support for parents of the disabled - Taipei Times
Chen Chieh-ju (born 1944) - Wikipedia
The World of Blind Mathematicians
A Tribute to Bernard Morin (1931-2018)
Song: "It's Kinda Beautiful" by Water Mirrors from Epidemic Sound

Friday Mar 07, 2025
March 2: Bedřich Smetana
Friday Mar 07, 2025
Friday Mar 07, 2025
Transcript
Today we recognize deafened Czech composer Bedřich Smetana.
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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 about Bedřich Smetana:
String Quartet No. 1 in E minor (“From My Life”), Bedřich Smetana
Smetana — String Quartet No. 1 "From my life" / Meccore String Quartet at Wigmore Hall
Song: "It's Kinda Beautiful" by Water Mirrors from Epidemic Sound

Sunday Mar 02, 2025
Sunday Mar 02, 2025
Transcript
Today we observe International Wheelchair Day, Day of Zero Discrimination, & Disability Day of Mourning, and kick off Developmental Disabilities Awareness Month!
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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 Day of Mourning
Disability Day of Mourning 2019 - Zoe Gross
Day of Mourning: Affirming the Value of Disabled People’s Lives
Heal Grief
2025 DD Awareness Month: We’re Here All Year! – NACDD
International Wheelchair Day
Zero Discrimination Day is observed each year on 1 March | UNAIDS
Song: "It's Kinda Beautiful" by Water Mirrors from Epidemic Sound

Sunday Mar 02, 2025
February 29: Rare Disease Day, Mark Pollock & Dinah Shore
Sunday Mar 02, 2025
Sunday Mar 02, 2025
Transcript
Today we observe Rare Disease Day and recognize blind and paralyzed athlete and explorer Mark Pollock and polio survivor, singer & actress Dinah Shore!
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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:
Mark Pollock
Mark Pollock | Unbroken | Talks at Google
Mark Pollock - Future Takes
Dinah Shore | Jewish Women's Archive
Dinah Shore & Buddy Clark - Baby Its Cold Outside 1949 Ted Dale's Orchestra
Rare Disease Day
Song: "It's Kinda Beautiful" by Water Mirrors from Epidemic Sound