Demand and Disrupt
Advocacy and information for people with disabilities by people with disabilities.
- Update frequency
- every 16 days
- Average duration
- 41 minutes
- Episodes
- 62
- Years Active
- 2022 - 2025
Episode 62: A Guru of Adaptive Golf
Our guest this week lost his right arm in a 1993 workplace accident, but that didn’t hinder his passion for golf in the least. Al Gentry founded the Kentucky Amputee Tournament in 1994, which has all…
Episode 61: Mental Disability and Loneliness
Kimberly talks with Reese Williams about Dissociative Identity Disorder, the link between homelessness and mental illness, and the importance of places like Bridgehaven for people living with mental …
Episode 60: Everyone stares at my walker because it’s cool!
Kimberly talks to Carrie Sessarego, a blogger on a popular book review website. Carrie named her wheelchair the Blue Beetle, and she has found ways to individualize her mobility devices so that her p…
Episode 59: People Are People
Kimberly talks with Mary-Jo Lord, Coordinating Editor of Magnets and Ladders, a publication for people with disabilities to showcase various kinds of writing. The submission deadline for the fall/win…
Episode 58: CAL Conversation: Navigating Healthcare as a Person with a Disability
Episode 56: Innovative Programming to Reach all of Kentucky
Kimberly talks with Dr. Patrick Kitzman, professor of Physical Therapy at University of Kentucky, about assistive technologies and some innovative programs he’s involved with to help get assistive te…
Episode 55: Belief in the Best Life Possible
Kimberly and Leigh Anne McKingsley, Senior Director of Disability & Justice Initiatives of The Arc of the United States, talk about the death of Victor Perez at the hands of police, what training ini…
Episode 54: CAL Conversations: The Cost of Disability
In this first CAL conversation, Kimberly and Carissa talk about the cost of disability. They discuss wheelchairs, kitchen gadgets, and everything in between.
Thanks to Chris Ankin for use of his son…
Episode 53: Follow me, I’ve got this.
Kimberly talks with Annie Lapidus about the joys and challenges of being in an immersive theater production about blindness, the importance of connection, and living with a rare disease.
To learn m…
Episode 50: Is God disabled?
Kimberly talks with self-described queer, disabled, feminist, Rabbi, Julia Watts Belser. Her book, Loving Our Own Bones: Disability Wisdom and the Spiritual Subversiveness of Knowing Ourselves Whole,…
Episode 48: Speaking Her Truth
Jessica Frew is a 23-year-old actress, model, and now author of the children’s book “The Nonverbal Princess.” Using her communication device, she is telling the world about the importance of equality…
Episode 46: A Bigger Vision for Your Life
Keith Hosey and Carissa Johnson interview Carolyn Wheeler, who simplifies the complicated and often confounding world of disability benefits. If you ever wondered how working would impact your benefi…
Episode 44: Ring in the new year with the Lotus Ring!
Kimberly talks with Dhaval Patel, founder and CEO of Lotus about the Lotus Ring, wearable device that is a cinch to hook up. Without installing an app or downloading software, the Lotus Ring turns o…
Episode 43: The Intersectionality of Independent Living
Kimberly interviews National Council on Independent Living Executive Director Theo Braddy. They discuss the history and future of NCIL, attitudinal barriers, and the insidious nature of ableism.