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So, Life Wants You DeadDisability Pride Month: Live from Soho House with Kendall CiesemierIn this episode, we talk to Kendall Ciesemier, a writer, producer, reporter, and health and disability advocate. Nora celebrated the launch event of So, Life Wants You Dead during Disability Pride Month last July when we recorded this conversation. We're so excited to launch our second season with this conversation. Kendall discusses her experience with liver transplant, navigating disability disclosure, and the societal stigmas associated with the term 'disability.' Both Nora and Kendall share personal stories about their health experiences, the empowerment found in disability identity, and the importance of community engagement. We touch on the c...2024-07-301h 00
At LibertyLive from Brooklyn Public Library: The Power of Poetry and Magical ThinkingFrom the ACLU, this is At Liberty. I'm Kendall Ciesemier, your host.
A month ago, we visited one of our favorite spots, the library. You know, at the ACLU, we love a good library. So much so that we even spent a recent Saturday night at the Brooklyn Public Library, along with some 5,000 others, for their annual enrichment event, Night in the Library.
The theme for this year's event was Out of Darkness, and it included an all-night lineup of performances and conversations focused on what it means to face hardship head-on, and what we gain from confronting life's challenges...2024-04-1123 min
United BodiesWhat Makes an Enjoyable Life With Andrea GibsonAs the first season of United Bodies comes to a close, here’s a conversation that will buoy us all by proving what’s possible.We’ve been talking about building the world we need -- be that through destigmatizing the hard stuff in our life through humor, liberating ourselves through movement, choosing to write a new story for our lives, finding bodily pleasure, or reconciling our spirituality. Today we are bringing all of those threads together in a conversation about accessing joy amidst the deepest of suffering, amidst any circumstance even while staring down o...2024-03-1848 minUnited BodiesPleasure Is For All of Us with adrienne maree brownToday we’re talking about pleasure. I can already tell that some of you are wincing. Pleasure is experienced in our bodies and keeps us full of aliveness—whether that’s the pleasure that comes from feeling sun on our backs, tasting our favorite treat, or from a steamy sexcapade. We’re talking about it all today with the person who wrote a whole book about its importance. adrienne maree brown is the NYT Bestselling author of Pleasure Activism. She’s a writer, activist and organizer who believes deeply that the only reason we can continue to resist oppr...2024-03-1139 minUnited BodiesReclaiming Spirituality After It Was Weaponized Against Us with Phillip PicardiFor many of us, spiritual health is a facet of our health that we consider less, perhaps even give less weight to or spend less time cultivating. There are many reasons for this. Spirituality can feel elusive, confusing, scary, and unknown. It can bring up religious baggage, ostracization, and pain. Religion is one of the most notable constructs of how people find and express individual and communal spirituality, but it’s also been used as a tool to oppress and commit violence. At a time when it feels like there is pain, suffering, and opp...2024-03-0443 minUnited BodiesThe Liberating Power of Movement With Morgan Dixon and Aj WilliamsMoving your body, in any way you can, can be a liberating experience—to feel your power, your strength, your security and resiliency through a step forward, a dance, a roll or stroll through nature. Studies support this—movement has a profound impact on our brains: reducing stress, anxiety, and depression, encouraging creativity and ingenuity. Think about it: when we are babies, we move our bodies naturally. We are born with the desire to move because movement feels good to us. But as adults our natural inclination to move is co-opted and politicized by diet cultur...2024-02-2644 minUnited BodiesWriting A New Story with Stephanie FooContent warning: child abuseTrauma is everywhere we look. Most prominently, trauma is marked by a sense of powerlessness and loss of control. This is one of most overwhelming parts of experiencing trauma. It’s terrifying to lose control over our bodies and our lives. Recovery is then about regaining control over all that was taken from us. One tool that can help us is the act of writing our stories. When we are able to reclaim our own stories, we can find a power greater than the power we lost. For Stephanie Foo, author of...2024-02-1937 minUnited BodiesLaughter is the Best Medicine with Samantha IrbyWelcome to the second half of United Bodies, where we’re focused on building the world we need. A huge part of building a better world is about imbuing our world with joy and there’s nothing that makes me feel more joy than laughter. I love to laugh and I particularly love to laugh about my own problems. This is what I think they call… coping. Laughter is contagious. It literally extends our lives. Laughter can also help us reckon with circumstances we cannot control, like the ones our bodies put us in. Bodies are emb...2024-02-1237 minUnited BodiesThe Power and Potential of Grief With Wanda IrvingWe are living in a time of collective mourning. Millions of people are mourning loved ones lost to COVID, others are mourning those lost to rampant gun violence or police brutality, and still others are mourning the smaller or slower losses: the loss of progressive illness, relationships, jobs. It can feel like everywhere we turn, there’s new loss. Grief is long, complicated, isolating, and devastating. It’s also something that we will all experience. So then, the question becomes, if so many of us are experiencing such profound loss in our lives, why isn’t it easi...2024-02-0538 minUnited BodiesThe Criminalization of Mental Illness With Krista Cezair and Brittany Packnett CunninghamContent Warnings: This episode includes discussions of suicidality, psychosis, violence, and police brutality.Over the last number of years, we’ve made significant progress in destigmatizing mental health care -- many of us openly talk about going to therapy, follow therapists on social media, and even trade tips on dealing with side effects of taking popular medication for depression and anxiety. However, this de-stigmatization hasn’t reached all kinds of mental illness or all kinds of people who struggle with their mental health. Some people are even criminalized for how they struggle with mental illness and t...2024-01-2940 minUnited BodiesIf Our Pain Were Believed With Samantha ReidThere is a huge gender gap in those that experience pain and how pain is treated. More than 51 million people in the United States – more than 20 percent of adults – live with chronic pain, but 70 percent of pain sufferers are women.To make matters worse, women and nonbinary people, particularly women and nonbinary people of color, are treated poorly by the medical system. Our pain is ignored. Our needs are unmet. Our diagnoses are late. We are gaslit by doctors and in turn we distrust them. When we are met with skepticism or denial, told that our symptoms are all...2024-01-2249 minUnited BodiesHow America Took the Healing out of Wellness with Fariha RóisínContent Warning: Child Sexual AbuseIf you listen to a podcast, scroll through Instagram, read your favorite news site, chances are that you’ll run into an ad for a new wellness product that you likely do not need. Preying on our innate fear of our own mortality, the wellness industrial complex is the manifestation of a kind of capitalism, colonization, and white supremacy, that promises you that if you buy this green juice, or do that colon cleanse, you too will be saved from illness, disability, or death. You will maintain power and control over yourself an...2024-01-1545 min
At LibertyThe Way Forward for Trans JusticeLast year, states passed a record number of bills restricting health care, athletics, public accommodations, expression, and educational materials for trans people — trans kids, more specifically. With the turn of a new year, the situation continues to grow dire.
Laws threatening access to gender-affirming care went into effect in several states on January 1, 2024. The ACLU is calling on the Supreme Court to block a Tennessee law banning gender-affirming medical care for trans people under the age of 18, and to reject a case concerning a transgender student’s access to restroom facilities that correspond with their gender identity at an Indiana scho...2024-01-1145 minUnited BodiesOur United Fight for Bodily Autonomy With Imani BarbarinTogether, throughout United Bodies, we’ll explore how different components of our health—mental, physical, social, and spiritual—interplay with one another and intersect with the whole of our identity. When we understand these forces in our lives, we can meet both ourselves and others with more empathy and maybe even realize our fights for equity, justice, freedom, and accessibility are united.The first half of our season is focused on addressing and navigating the world we have. The second half will be focused on envisioning and building the world we need. There will be a new episod...2024-01-0838 min
United BodiesTrailerUnited Bodies is a podcast about the lived experience of health. Join health and disability writer, producer, and activist Kendall Ciesemier and her guests as they explore how different components of our health – mental, physical, social, and spiritual – interplay with one another and intersect with the whole of our identity. When we understand these forces in our lives, we can meet both ourselves and others with more empathy and maybe even realize our fights for equity, justice, freedom, and accessibility are united. 2023-12-2701 min
At LibertyThe Unconstitutional Silencing of Pro-Palestinian Student GroupsFree speech is one of the hallmarks of a functioning democracy and one of our fundamental constitutional rights. At the ACLU, we know that it's precisely in times of crisis and fear when free speech, open debate, and peaceful dissent are most important.
Over the last few months, as the world continues to witness the catastrophe in Israel and Palestine, protests in support of Palestine are being silenced and censored on college campuses.
In early November, the ACLU sent out an open letter to the administrative leaders of each state's public college system that reached over 650 colleges and universities, expressing...2023-12-0731 minAt LibertyHow Activist Raquel Willis Found Her Voice and PowerOn January 21, 2017, a day after the inauguration of former President Donald Trump, activist and journalist Raquel Willis approached the podium at the inaugural Women’s March in Washington, D.C. to share her story at what became one of the largest single-day marches in U.S. history. With this momentous platform, Willis was determined to galvanize the crowd to support liberation for all women, namely Black trans women like herself.
Not even three minutes into her speech, after calling out the erasure of trailblazing women of color from feminist history, Willis’ microphone was cut off. Unfortunately, this silencing was something that...2023-11-3035 min
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https://www.aclu.org/action/2023-11-2511 minAt LibertyGlennon Doyle on Leading Loved Ones in the Fight for JusticeThe holiday season is upon us. This week, we are revisiting our conversation with author and activist Glennon Doyle. In this conversation, Doyle and host Kendall Ciesemier discuss how to bring loved ones into our understanding of equity and justice through the use of storytelling, imagination, and conversation. It’s an episode fit for such a time as this and we hope you enjoy.2023-11-2144 min
That That Don't Kill MeShots Shots ShotsEverybody wants one, nobody's getting them. Kendall and Jamie discuss the vaccine rollout, Kendall's CNN op-ed on the subject, and the issues with current prioritization. They also get into scams like Philly Fighting COVID, the Fyre Fest of vaccine distribution that was being run by a 22-year-old psychology student.
Kendall's op-ed: https://www.cnn.com/2021/01/28/opinions/young-immunocompromised-covid-19-vaccine-priority-ciesemier/index.html?utm_content=2021-01-28T21%3A25%3A31&utm_source=twCNN&utm_medium=social&utm_term=link
NPR story on Philly Fighting COVID: https://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2021/01/29/962143659/in-philadelphia-a-scandal-erupts-over-vaccination-start-up-led-by-22-year-old
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Uninvisible Pod with Lauren Freedman089: Liver Transplant, Purpose, & Activism w/ Journalist Kendall CiesemierKendall Ciesemier is the executive producer of multimedia for the ACLU. A multi-award-winning reporter, producer, writer, and social entrepreneur, she founded Kids Caring 4 Kids — an organization that empowers young people and helps provide access to clean water, healthcare, food, and education to children living in Zambia, Kenya, and South Africa — at the age of 11. While attending Georgetown University, she co-founded OWN IT, a national women’s initiative that empowers and inspires college-age women by providing access to 21st-century female leaders through summits focused on said leadership, diversity, accessibility, and feminism. Kendall came to prominence as a journalist through her work w...2020-08-261h 07
The iChoose Series PodcastEp.15 - Kendall CiesemierKendall is a journalist and producer who founded a non profit called Kids Caring for Kids. She talks about how she started this organization and how she overcame personal struggles. A truly inspirational episode you wont want to miss.
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Sounds Good with Branden HarveyKendall Ciesemier — Amplifying Voices and Disrupting the Status QuoKim Kardashian West took note of the powerful story Kendall Ciesemier broke on Alice Marie Johnson, an undeniably groundbreaking step toward exposing an injustice and leading to Alice’s freedom from prison. In this conversation, Branden and Kendall dive deep into her story of thriving in the midst of life’s struggles, finding purpose and passion, how to use media to drive social change, and where to begin after overcoming adversity.2018-09-241h 07
Office Hours: A Podcast1.12.Office Hours A Podcast.Journey Of FaithIn today's Office Hours, Dr. C talks to a Georgetown alum who has made an impact on so many people. Kendall Ciesemier discusses how her experiences of having a chronic illness inspired her to establish a nonprofit for children, advocate for organ donation, and become a national voice on service. She talks about how all her struggles has shaped her journey of faith.
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