Presenting: Dignity Delayed
Content: historic records
Highlights
Join Emerson as they highlight the dedication of the Healing Trail, and the events leading up to its opening. Seen and Heard visits the asylum and takes stock of the historic records, forging connection and kinship. Members of the Disability Advisory Committee have taken up efforts to shape the site’s lasting legacy and commitment to public education. What a commitment to liberatory access might look like.
Conclusion
What becomes possible when we value—in all the registers of that term—people’s inherent dignity? What if difference is not a burden but a critical component of biodiversity? What if honoring dependency is the greatest transformation we cultivate for the future? Healing is never linear, and the unfinished work ahead.
Transcript
For a full transcript of this episode, visit: disabilityecologiespodcast.buzzsprout.com
Credits
Episode written and narrated by Emerson Cram, University of Iowa. Recorded with Riverside FM. Production and Sound Editing by Maura De Cicco. All media clips are used for educational purposes only. Sound effects licensed through Pixabay.
Mia Mingus, “Access Intimacy,” Disability Intersectionality Summit, October 26, 2018.
Funding
Research, writing, and production have benefitted from generous support from multiple sources, including: the National Communication Association’s Karl R. Wallace Memorial Award; UI OVPR Arts and Humanities Initiative Standard Grant; UI Provost Investment in Strategic Priorities; UI College of Liberal Arts DSHB Humanities Scholar; CLAS Summer Humanities Award.
Special Thanks
With thanks to Maura De Cicco; University of Iowa Departments of Communication Studies, Gender, Women’s & Sexuality Studies, and American Studies (Especially Angie Looney, Kembrew McLeod, Eric Vázquez, Naomi Greyser, and Hallie Abelman); The Johnson County Local Food & Farm Team (Julie Watkins & Ilsa DeWald), V Fixmer-Oraiz, Johnson County Board of Supervisors; Kim Painter, Johnson County Recorder; Rebecca Dewing, Johnson County Historical Society; the 2024 Colby Summer Institute in Environmental Humanities Seminar Participants; Claire Fox; Teresa Mangum; Jennifer New; Phaedra C. Pezzullo; Constance Gordon; and Jesse Waggoner.
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