What can disability access teach us about the ways we design, maintain, and move through the world? In this episode, Eleanor Drage speaks with Cassandra Hartblay, author of Access Vernaculars: Disability and Accessible Design in Contemporary Russia. The conversation explores how accessibility is shaped by local histories, political systems, language, and everyday experiences. Hartblay discusses the humble ramp as a technology of “good passage,” the limits of treating accessibility as a...

What does it mean to care for people and worlds that cannot simply be “fixed”? In Part 2, Eleanor Drage continues her conversation with Kelly Fritsch and Anne McGuire, authors of Broken Worlds, Disabled Kin: Strategies for Collective Survival, exploring disability justice, collective care, maintenance, reproductive technology, and risk. The conversation examines how mutual aid and disability culture can offer alternatives to social abandonment, and how palliation can help us live with loss,...

What can disability justice teach us about building more livable futures in a world that is already broken? In this episode, Eleanor Drage speaks with Kelly Fritsch and Anne McGuire, authors of Broken Worlds, Disabled Kin: Strategies for Collective Survival, about disability, technology, accessibility, care, and collective survival.