What We Love: Podcasts
The podcasts shared here centre lived experience, critical thinking, and honest dialogue. Some are educational, some reflective, and some may feel uncomfortable depending on your context, experiences, and relationship to the content. However you engage, remember that learning doesn’t end when the episode does.
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Share an insight or aha moment. Sit with a question it raised. Talk it through with a friend, colleague, or child. Support the people creating this work. Advocate for a change—big or small—at home, at work, or in your community.
Additions and Updated: May 7, 2026
ologies with Alie Ward (podcast)
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Episodes:
Disability Sociology (Disability Pride) with Guinevere Chambers
Systems Biology (Medical Mathematics) with Emily E. Ackerman
Scratch That: Parenting and Reparenting Off Script with Rebekah Taussig and Caitlin Metz (podcast)
A podcast cover featuring a greyish background with bold, black, all-caps text reading "Scratch That: Parenting & Reparenting Off Script." The typography is dynamic, with varying sizes and orientations. Black stripes are incorporated into the design, adding an artistic and offbeat visual style.
Episodes:
How do we talk about internailzed ableism? (Episode 8 - Nov. 4, 2024)
How does a disabled mum approach parenting her disabled son? A joyful conversation with Nina Tame
(Episode 10 - Nov. 18, 2024)
Returning to Our Bodies with Barry Lee (October 6, 2025)
Lessons from the Playroom with host Lisa Dion (podcast)
A podcast cover with a gradient background transitioning from deep purple to light purple. The text reads "Lessons from the Playroom" in large, elegant font, followed by "With host Lisa Dion" in a smaller, cursive style. Below, "Synergetic Play Therapy Institute®" is written in a formal typeface. A stylized, glowing flower design is positioned in the bottom right corner.
Episode:
Marshall Lyles: Ableism and Disablism in the Playroom (Episode 150 - July 18, 2023)
Bookends with Mattea Roach (podcast)
The design features an artistic arrangement of open books in shades of blue, yellow, and purple against a textured green background. The CBC logo is in the top-left corner, and the podcast title is displayed in bold white and yellow text.
Episode:
Kate Gies: Reclaiming her body after years of medical trauma (Season 1, Episode 23 - February 9, 2025)
The Interview (podcast)
The image is a square podcast cover with a grayscale, abstract background that has a smooth, wavy gradient effect. The title, "The Interview", is displayed in bold white text in the upper left corner. Below the title, in the lower left corner, is the recognizable New York Times logo, a stylized white "T."
Episode:
Ed Yong to Show You the Hidden Reality of the World (February 22, 2025)
Casual Ableism talks….The Podcast
The image is a black square with bold white text. At the top, the words “Casual Ableism” appear in large font. Beneath them, the word “talks…” appears in a lighter, smaller font. The “i” in “ableism” is replaced with a stylized wheelchair-accessible icon, integrated into the word. A thin white line separates the main title from the subtitle “The Podcast,” which sits at the bottom in small white text.
All Episodes: Casual Ableism talks podcast
Academic Ableism: A Conversation with Jay Dolmage
Hosted by the Centre for Teaching & Learning, Queen's University
This image is a screenshot of a video thumbnail promoting a talk called Academic Ableism: A Conversation with Jay Dolmage. The design uses a clean academic-event style with a mostly white background and colorful rectangular accents in teal, orange, and gray along the right edge. Near the upper-right corner is a portrait photo of Jay Dolmage, a man with short light-brown hair wearing glasses and smiling slightly.
On the left side, text reads “Teaching to Transgress Series” followed by the title Academic Ableism: A Conversation with Jay Dolmage. Beneath the title is the date “Tuesday, October 3, 2023.” Smaller paragraph text below briefly describes Jay Dolmage as Chair of English at the University of Waterloo and mentions his work in disability studies, rhetoric, writing, and pedagogy.
At the bottom of the screenshot is the YouTube-style video title text repeated below the thumbnail, along with a visible runtime marker showing “1:06:37.”
October 5, 2023: Academic Ableism: A Conversation with Jay Dolmage