Disability Daily Podcast
Discover a new figure or event in disability history each day!
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Friday Apr 04, 2025
Friday Apr 04, 2025
Transcript
Today we celebrate the anniversary of the start to the 504 Sit-In (1977), Deaf orthodontist and TTY inventor Dr. James Carlyle Marsters & Israeli disability rights activist with muscular dystrophy, Alex Fridman.
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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:
Crip Camp: A Disability Revolution
His Ingenuity Helped the Deaf Tap the Power of Telephones - WSJ
Alex Fridman
Song: "It's Kinda Beautiful" by Water Mirrors from Epidemic Sound
Friday Apr 04, 2025
Friday Apr 04, 2025
Transcript
Today we honor poet and civil rights activist Maya Angelou & Deaf NASA engineer Johanna Lucht!
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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:
Maya Angelou
Biography: Maya Angelou
Johanna Lucht: Engineer Extraordinaire - NASA
Johanna Lucht - Deaf Scientist
Innovate Pasadena Presents: Johanna Lucht (interview)
Song: "It's Kinda Beautiful" by Water Mirrors from Epidemic Sound
Thursday Apr 03, 2025
Thursday Apr 03, 2025
Transcript
Today we celebrate Dr. Jane Goodall, who has prosopagnosia (face blindness) & the anniversary of the first Little People of America Convention in 1957.
*Note: This episode briefly mentions a historical organization in whose title contains the M-word. Today, this is a highly offensive slur against people with dwarfism to be avoided entirely. It was, however, a term used to distinguish particular medical traits from others with short stature. Words have power, and their uses and connotations change over time. Please listen–and speak–with care.
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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:
Do You Have Face Blindness!? (Prosopagnosia Explained)
1957 - A Midgets of America convention is held in Reno, Nevada. - DVarchive
Song: "It's Kinda Beautiful" by Water Mirrors from Epidemic Sound
Tuesday Apr 01, 2025
Tuesday Apr 01, 2025
Transcript
Today we celebrate World Autism Acceptance Day & blind British physician, Dr. Thomas Rhodes Armitage.
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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:
Autistic Self Advocacy Network
Autism Acceptance Month: Celebrate Differences - The Arc
Dr Thomas Armitage
April 2: Thomas Rhodes Armitage (Penny L. Richards)
Thomas Armitage, founder of RNIB
Song: "It's Kinda Beautiful" by Water Mirrors from Epidemic Sound
Tuesday Apr 01, 2025
Tuesday Apr 01, 2025
Transcript
Happy Birthday blind American urologist Dr. John Bongiovanni, Deaf American biologist Dr. Alicia Wooten, Salimat Kekalova and Azerbaijani brand Kekalove Adaptive & Australian polio expert Dame Jean Macnamara.
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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:
Atomic Hands
Kekalove Adaptive
Dame Jean Macnamara Google Doodle
BLIND UROLOGIST DISCIPLINED FOR PERFORMING SURGERY - The New York Times
Too Much Protection? (letter regarding Dr. John Bongiovanni)
Song: "It's Kinda Beautiful" by Water Mirrors from Epidemic Sound
Monday Mar 31, 2025
Monday Mar 31, 2025
Transcript
Today we celebrate Deaf lawyer Claudia Gordon and disability activist with cerebral palsy, Imani Barbarin!
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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:
I’m A Black Woman With Cerebral Palsy, & I Didn’t Think I’d Make It Into Adulthood
Crutches and Spice
Imani Barbarin (@crutches_and_spice) • Instagram photos and videos
NCD announces new Chair Claudia L. Gordon
Owning Otherness | Claudia Gordon | TEDxUniversityofRochester
Song: "It's Kinda Beautiful" by Water Mirrors from Epidemic Sound
Sunday Mar 30, 2025
Sunday Mar 30, 2025
Transcript
Today we celebrate Deaf actor Marlee Matlin’s Oscar win, disabled artists Vincent van Gogh & Francisco Goya, and mental health advocate Clifford Beers.
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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:
Oscar Winner Marlee Matlin | Best Actress for 'Children of a Lesser God' | 59th Oscars (1987)
Deaf Actress's Use of Speech Proves Divisive Among Peers - The New York Times
About Clifford Beers | Mental Health Clinic | New Haven CT
A mind that found itself : an autobiography
Vincent's Life, 1853-1890 - Van Gogh Museum
Francisco Goya Biography
Song: "It's Kinda Beautiful" by Water Mirrors from Epidemic Sound
Saturday Mar 29, 2025
Saturday Mar 29, 2025
Transcript
Today we celebrate White House Certified Deaf Interpreter Elsie Stecker; Little People of America president Lee Kitchens, & champion of folks with intellectual disabilities, Niels Bank-Mikkelsen!
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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:
Interview with former White House CDI Elsie Stecker (ASL; captioned)
Dwarfism - Symptoms and causes - Mayo Clinic.
Little People of America (LPA) District 8 Scrapbook, 1963-2002
Sage Reference - Encyclopedia of Disability - Bank-Mikkelsen, Niels Erik
Song: "It's Kinda Beautiful" by Water Mirrors from Epidemic Sound
Saturday Mar 29, 2025
Saturday Mar 29, 2025
Transcript
Today we celebrate paraplegic professional wheelchair dancer Chelsie Hill.
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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:
Chelsie Hill
Rollettes
Meet Chelsie (PUSH GIRLS)
Chelsie Hill - YouTube
Song: "It's Kinda Beautiful" by Water Mirrors from Epidemic Sound
Wednesday Mar 26, 2025
Wednesday Mar 26, 2025
Transcript
Today we celebrate Alice Wong, American disability activist; Canadian polio survivor & engineer Elsie MacGill; & Tashiro Furukawa, Japanese teacher of the deaf & blind.
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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 Visibility Project
Disability Visibility anthology
My Day as a Robot | Where It's AT. The Ability Tools Blog
Elsie MacGill - the first female aeronautical engineer
Tashiro Furukawa's Google Doodle
Song: "It's Kinda Beautiful" by Water Mirrors from Epidemic Sound