Annita Luchessi: Survivors and Families First

   It is a pleasure to share this interview with activist and scholar Annita Lucchesi. Among other things, Annita is the founder and Executive Director of the Sovereign Bodies Institute, a research hub that houses the MMIW database, a ...

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• COVID-19
• Families
• Healing
• Indigenous
• Justice
• MMIW
• Native
• Research
• SBI
• Sexual Violence
• Survivors

Courtney 12.19.2020

Care and Caring

In this podcast, I consider the concepts of care and caring and their relationship to health and well-being. I identify how care and caring are tied to ethics, norms, and behaviors. In addition, I explore the limits of care, especially in terms of ...

Courtney 11.12.2020

Senses

In this podcast, I explore the different senses, and their relevance to health and health care. After listening to this post, I encourage you to draw a place-based sensory experience, especially one that relates to medicine, health, health care, and ...

Courtney 11.12.2020

Eli Clare: Eli Clare: Creativity, Activism, and the Intersection of Two Pandemics (Part III)

In this last part of the discussion with Eli Clare, he explores current inspirations and influences in the disability community. Clare addresses how his influences are widespread and include many of individuals not listed in the links included ...

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• BIPOC
• community
• COVID-19
• Disability
• inspirations
• LGBTQIA
• Medicare
• Poetry
• Ventilators

Courtney 08.19.2020

Eli Clare: Eli Clare: Creativity, Activism, and the Intersection of Two Pandemics (Part II)

Eli Clare begins this second segment of our interview with a poem addressing concerns posed by COVID-19. Our conversation also focuses on many themes that relate to health equity and health disparities in our current moment, including ...

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• Care
• Congregant Living
• COVID-19
• Disability
• LGBTQIA
• Listening
• Poetry
• Prenatal Testing
• Ratioining
• Structural Racism
• White Privilege

Courtney 08.19.2020

Eli Clare: Creativity, Activism, and the Intersection of Two Pandemics (Part I)

     The following is the first installment of an interview with Eli Clare, poet, essayist, and activist. This installment of our interview covers his approach to writing and activism, the writers that influence him, and the ...

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• activism
• COVID-19
• Disability
• Eli Clare
• medical history
• race
• storytelling

Courtney 06.18.2020

A Conversation With Brian Fies

I am thrilled to launch our podcast series with an interview with comics creator Brian Fies. We talk about his creative process, his thoughts on the comics medium for conveying complex feelings that many of us are experiencing, and much more. A ...

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• Brian Fies
• comics
• COVID-19
• grief
• loneliness
• loss

Courtney 05.15.2020