Jennifer Senior, a staff writer at The Atlantic, joins host Krys Boyd to discuss the story of her aunt Adele, who was sent away at age 6 because of intellectual disabilities.
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The grief of institutionalizing a child
Jennifer Senior, a staff writer at The Atlantic, joins host Krys Boyd to discuss the story of her aunt Adele, who was sent away at age 6 because of intellectual disabilities.
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When your disability is invisible to others
Frank Bruni discusses his vision loss in one eye, and the resulting reframing of his priorities after the diagnosis that he could lose his sight in both eyes.
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The pressure to act happy when your child has special needs
Heather Lanier joins us to discuss the personal struggles she faces parenting her daughter, a child with a very rare genetic disorder, while navigating a world that expects parents to raise high-achieving children.
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What Makes A Woman Beautiful?
We’ll talk with three women who are pushing back against certain societal expectations on how a woman should look and move through the world.
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The People Left Out By The Classical Definition Of Beauty
Philosophy professor Chloé Cooper Jones joins us to talk about the vulnerability and rejection of being “othered” because of a disability while learning to find strength and solace within herself.
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Designing For Disability Helps Everybody
Sara Hendren teaches design for disability at Olin College of Engineering, and she joins us to talk about the idea that disability isn’t about a person, so much as the way a person must navigate an unhelpful world.
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Designing For Disability
Bess Williamson, associate professor of art history, theory and criticism at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, joins us to discuss how design has evolved as it attempts to accommodate all users, which she writes about in “Accessible America: A History of Disability and Design.”
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Motherhood, Disability, and Discovery
The birth of a child is a joyous occasion for any family. But what happens when everything doesn’t turn out exactly as planned?
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