15/05/2023
Image description: Picture of Julia Watts Belser. The background is bright green, with deep red accents. Julia, a white Jewish woman with curly brown and silvered hair, sits happily in her wheelchair in front of a flowering bush. She's wearing a patterned red blazer and red kippah (beret) to match.
Photo credit: Joshua Johnson.
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Digging Into the Archive with Dr. Julia Watts Belser
Host Áine Kelly-Costello talks to Dr Julia Watts Belser who is a professor of Jewish studies and Disability Studies at Georgetown University in Washington DC. Julia coordinates the Disability and Climate Change Public Archive, which chronicles disabled experience and wisdom navigating climate disruption and connected crises. They talk about telling compelling stories at disability and climate intersections, making them accessible, and sustaining this work through the archive. They also discuss Julia's article in Truthout about the dangers of viewing disabled people as "expected losses".
Mentioned in the episode
Check out Justice Shorter's audio portrait!
Check out the Disability and Climate Change Public Archive!
Discover the work of Sucia Urrea.
Discover the work of Reid Caplan.
Discover the work of Claire Cunningham.
