Approximately 700 million women and girls across the globe live with a disability. Disabled women make up three quarters of all people with disabilities in low or middle income countries. While all women no matter their location face multilayered discrimination…
Disability Deep Dive Podcast is a bi-weekly interview podcast hosted by Keith Casebonne and Jodi Beckstine that explores issues that matter to disabled people. In the final episode of season two of Disability Deep Dive, hosts Keith and Jodi delve…
BBC Chief North America Correspondent Gary O’Donoghue has covered Washington for over a decade, and he has done it as a blind journalist in a field that still assumes that is not possible. In this episode he talks with hosts…
Content warning: Mental illness, language deprivation, and suicide. TGDN Network reporter Rikki Poynter has participated in this year’s Seattle Deaf Film Festival, covering the event through a series of videos and articles. In this review, she looks closely at Siren:…
TGDN Network’s Reporter Rikki Poynter took part in this year’s Seattle Deaf Film Festival. In a series of videos and articles, she’ll review several films and recently, she shared what the three-day film festival was like. In this review, Rikki…
Lois Auta is a disability rights activist from Nigeria, Africa, who has fought for disabled women and girls since she was a teenager. Today, she is one of the most renowned disabled women in her country. Since 2019, she has…
Broadcaster, bestselling author, and advocate Sophie Morgan joins hosts Karina Sturm and Amy Zayed to talk about moving through the world on your own terms: travel writing, flying while disabled, and seeing ourselves reflected in the stores we shop in….
July is Disability Pride Month, a time when disabled people celebrate disability rights and, as the name suggests, are proud of their identity as a disabled person. I haven’t always been a proud disabled person. For me, “pride” meant ultimately…
Fashion is one of the most visual industries in the world, so where does that leave blind and low-vision people? In this episode, hosts Karina Sturm and Amy Zayed talk with Anna Cofone, founder of the Hair & Care Project,…