In this first episode, host Jam Joseph engages in dialogue with Sid Marcos, the producer of the podcast and founder of Cripple Productions, to explore the intentions of the anti-ableist project and its intersection with arts and culture. Here's what you'll learn in today's Episode:

- Why ableism is the focus of this podcast
- How arts and culture can be used to unpack ableism
- How to engage in the conversation of anti-ableism in our culture today.

Listeners are invited to participate in the anti-ableist project through the podcast's interactive newsletter, 'In Dialogue', which offers resources, prompts for response, and comment boxes to keep the conversation going.

Sid Marcos, a writer and producer of Cripple Productions and producer of this podcast, is working on her book titled Until Our Time. She gives us insight into what we might find in those pages and its attempt to reconcile the timelines of Hemingway's era on antiquated ideas.

Rebekah Taussig is a Kansas City writer and educator. Bolstered by academic knowledge and personal experience, she strives to tell stories that enhance and complicate the way we think about disability. You can find more of her work in TIME, on her Instagram, @sitting_pretty, or in her memoir in essays, Sitting Pretty: The View from My Ordinary Resilient Disabled Body.

You can follow her work and sign up for her newsletter at www.rebekahtaussig.com.

In this fourth episode, host Jam Joseph engages in dialogue with Jerron Herman, a disabled dancer and writer who creates works to facilitate welcoming. Jerron is compelled to create images of freedom, intersecting with the anti-ableist project and its intersection with arts and culture.

Jerron is an artist, dancer, writer, and model who's process is supported by personal histories and social legacies of disability aesthetics that undermine notions of production in favor of welcoming.

Action Items for able-bodied listeners: Read up on and watch Vitruvian by Jerron Herman
Watch and familiarize yourself with Tobin Siebers's Disability Aesthetics

Terms to know:
-DISABILITY ACCESS TOOLS
-DISABILITY AESTHETICS
-CRIP NEWS
-THE VITRUVIAN MAN BY LEONARDO DI VINCI
-METAPHYSICAL / PHYSICAL

Hailing from London, England, Moeed Majeed is an award-winning podcaster, presenter, and model. Living with Crohn's disease and a stoma bag, he is a passionate advocate for invisible conditions, using his platform to spark conversations and raise awareness. Currently, he is creating his own documentary series, where he takes on new challenges and experiences he's never tried before.