Episode 3: Planetary Whistle Blowers
Our guest Mordecai discusses how people who have been harmed or disabled by environmental injury/illness are “planetary whistle blowers” for our state of climate chaos. The podcast explores the entangled institutions which comprise the Medical Industrial Complex (MIC), and how agribusinesses and big pharma often profit from environmental harms and illnesses they cause. Mordecai, founder of Health Justice Commons, shares their perspective on building movements to create alternative systems of healing that resist and transform the capitalist, racist, ableist, and eugenics-based practices embedded in the MIC.
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Episode 2: Crip Resilience is Nature's Brilliance
Our planet has reached a toxic tipping point where the chemicals we produce are harming our bodies, communities, and ecosystems. Climate change is also increasing our exposure to diseases. We explore environmental racism and ableism, i.e. how and why environmental illness/injury is most impacting marginalized communities, including BIPOC, incarcerated people, and disabled people. Sofia and Rafi explore their own experiences with environmental illness/injury. Then we end with a fun discussion about why quails are awesome.
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Episode 1: We Love Like Barnacles
When climate disaster strikes, will able-bodied allies be there for us, or will our disabled bodies be treated as disposable? This episode sets the foundations for season one, where we'll be exploring the connections between climate justice and disability justice. We also explore how movement leaders like Patty Berne demonstrate that disabled people are surviving and thriving during climate this time of climate chaos.
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