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Published 2025/01/31

Talk Description to Me and more

One of the best parts of my job is curating our monthly Accessibility Community of Practice meetings. I like to tie into monthly awareness campaigns. For January, I highlighted World Braille Day and Braille Literacy Month. But then jumped into some particulars. Like sharing a video from one of my favorite folks, Anthony Ferraro, a blind athlete, musician, motivational speaker, and podcaster. His catchphrases are “the only disability is a bad attitude” and “one love.”


Some fun podcasts

Talk Description to Me podcast

Where the visuals of current events and the world around us get hashed out in description-rich conversations. J.J. Hunt is an innovative Audio Describer and a natural-born storyteller. Christine Malec is a perpetually inquisitive member of the blind and partially sighted community who’s always wondering about something.

In Talk Description to Me, their discussions plunge into current events and topical issues to explore the content of important images and help place vivid descriptions in their cultural context. Lively, hard-hitting, witty, vibrant, and fun, this is conversation with a view!


Talk Description to Me

Say My Meme podcast

Say My Meme is exactly what it sounds like: A podcast that literally describes the world’s most relevant memes, bringing the blind and sighted people together through laughter and the power of visual description. Brought to you by Will from Be My Eyes and Caroline from Scribely.

Say My Meme

Blind beauty expert and journalist Lucy Edwards recently sent in a request to Say My Meme, for beauty and makeup memes. Lucy joined as their first guest host to talk all memes skincare, makeup and more.

Meme with the question "Why don't you just let your hair dry naturally?" with Danny DeVito wearing a frizzy wig

Say My Meme sub-categories include:

  • Weird memes
  • The Album Cover
  • Disneyland
  • The Olympics
  • Online Dating Memes
  • Star Wars
Darth Vader strangling a rebel troop, with the caption "Strong people don't put others down. They lift them up." accredited to Darth Vader, Philanthropist.

Accessible Social

In our monthly meetings, I also have Accessibility Hall of Shame and Hall of Fame sections. The Hall of Shame section often features accessibility overlays and why they are terrible. For our January Hall of Fame, I highlighted a resource I came across called Accessible Social. This is a free resource and education hub that shares best practices for creating accessible and inclusive social media content. Guides include best practices for sharing:

With additional learning and resources:

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Published 2024/09/19

Disability, Culture, and Creativity

I’m a long-time fan of Gaelynn Lea. She is a musician, public speaker, and disability advocate from my home state of Minnesota. Recently, she appeared in a video featured in the closing ceremonies of the 2024 Paralympics. Less recently (but also wonderfully) she delivered an NPR Music Tiny Desk Concert.

A crowd of disabled musicians and athletes gather at a skate park in front of an ocean beach

The TPT series Art + Medicine explores healthcare through story, song and the arts. Hosted by Drs. Jon Hallberg and Tseganesh Selameab. This series is a co-production of TPT-Twin Cities PBS and the Center for the Art of Medicine at the University of Minnesota Medical School.

Gaelynn Lea’s episode about disability, culture, and creativity was nominated for an Upper Midwest Emmy. Artists and healthcare clinicians create alternative perspectives on disability, through stories and performances, and redefine what we perceive as normal. Watch the episode in full on the TPT website.

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