Podcast
Episode 34
Contra* History (2) with Elizabeth Guffey and Bess Williamson
November 14, 2024
What is the history of disability-accessible design? And how does this history get written? In this episode of Contra*, I talk to historians Elizabeth Guffey and Bess Williamson about their books on this topic.
Episode 33
Solidarity Chat 10: Embry Wood Owen
October 30, 2024
Aimi speaks to Embry Wood Owen about disabled mutual aid organizing and the politics of public space during COVID-19.
Episode 32
Solidarity Chat 9: Max Liboiron
October 30, 2024
Aimi speaks to Dr. Max Liboiron about administrative activism and the legacies of disabled and Indigenous mutual aid.
Episode 31
Contra* Accessibility's History with Elizabeth Guffey and Bess Williamson
October 30, 2024
What is the history of disability-accessible design? And how does this history get written? In this episode of Contra*, I talk to historians Elizabeth Guffey and Bess Williamson about their books on this topic.
Episode 30
Solidarity Chat 8: Dasom Nah
October 30, 2024
Aimi talks to Dasom Nah of the Disability Justice Culture Club about disability and mutual aid organizing.
Episode 29
Solidarity Chat 7: Jay Salazar
October 30, 2024
Aimi talks to Jay Salazar of the Disability Justice Culture Club about disability and mutual aid organizing.
Episode 28
Mourning, Mobilization, and Mutual Aid
October 30, 2024
Brief notes on anti-Black violence, mourning the passing of Stacey Park Milbern, and mutual aid. The people most harmed by the COVID-19 pandemic are often Black, Indigenous, and disabled. Many members of our communities have been lost because of ableism and racism. We remember them by trying to create a better world.
Episode 27
Solidarity Chat 6: Sulaiman Khan
October 30, 2024
Aimi talks to Sulaiman Khan of This Ability about ableism and COVID-19.
Episode 26
Solidarity Chat 5: Ayah Nuriddin
October 30, 2024
Aimi speaks to Ayah Nirrudin about eugenics, anti-Blackness, and COVID-19.
Episode 25
Contra* Maintenance with Leah Samples
October 30, 2024
How are accessible spaces and designs maintained, and how can paying attention to maintenance challenge our ideas about design as always driven by innovation? In this episode of Contra*, I talk to Critical Design Lab member Leah Samples about her work on mapping the infrastructures of accessibility and designing protocols for the maintenance of technologies such as elevators.
Episode 24
Solidarity Chat 4: Michelle Murphy
October 30, 2024
Aimi speaks to Dr. Michelle Murphy about eugenics and the economization of life in the time of COVID-19.
Episode 23
Solidarity Chat 3: Jay Dolmage
October 30, 2024
Aimi speaks to Dr. Jay Dolmage about disability, eugenics, and COVID-19.
Episode 22
Solidarity Chat 2: Alice Wong
October 30, 2024
Aimi talks to Alice Wong about ableism, disability culture, and COVID-19.
Episode 21
Solidarity Chat 1: Arrianna Planey
October 30, 2024
Aimi speaks with Dr. Arrianna Planey about COVID-19, health disparities, and critical health analysis.
Episode 20
Contra* Technology with Liz Ellcessor
October 30, 2024
How can disability culture inform our ways of thinking about communication technologies and digital spaces? In this episode of Contra*, I talk to media scholar Liz Ellcessor about the politics of technological design.
Episode 19
Contra* Making (2) with Corbett O'Toole
October 30, 2024
How can we think about disabled people as makers, and not just as users? In this episode of Contra*, I continue the conversation with Corbett O'Toole about disabled people as designers, tinkerers, and experimenters with environments of daily life.
Episode 18
Contra* Making with Corbett O'Toole
October 30, 2024
How can we think about disabled people as makers, and not just as users? In the first of two Contra* episodes with my friend and colleague Corbett O'Toole, we discuss disabled people as design experts, focusing on transit systems and public spaces.
Episode 17
Contra* Curation with Eliza Chandler, Lindsay Fisher, and Sean Lee
October 30, 2024
Cassandra Hartblay talks about disability arts, curation, and conferences with Eliza Chandler, Lindsey Fischer, and Sean Lee.
Episode 16
Contra* Arts Access with Emily Watlington
October 30, 2024
How are disabled artists, critics, and curators shaping the discourse about accessibility? In this episode of Contra*, I talk to Emily Watlington about her work as a curator of disability arts, thought, and practice, particularly around audio-visual media, captioning and description, and access labor.
Episode 15
Contra* Description with Liza Sylvestre
October 30, 2024
Image description is a practice that is often associated with creating accessibility for blind people. While, according to some people, image descriptions are supposed to be objective accounts of what is happening in a photo or film, some disabled artists are using image descriptions to critique other forms of inaccessibility. On this episode of Contra*, I talk to hard-of-hearing artist Liza Sylvestre about her work, which draws on methods of image description and film captioning to critique popular films, and with them, the broader culture of audism, which assumes that everyone has equal access to hearing sound.
