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10: You Can't Save the Rainforest if You're Depressed with Imani Barbarin
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I’m excited to introduce you to today’s guest. Imani Barbarin is a disability rights and inclusion activist and speaker who uses her platform for conversations around the disability community. I’ve followed her for a while on TikTok and appreciate the way she expresses her opinions and helps educate the rest of us. Come join us now!
Show Highlights:
- How Imani explored and discovered her passion for advocacy for disability and inclusion rights
- How climate change and disability are linked
- Why environmental ableism is a real thing
- How people have become victims of their non-nuanced thinking, only wanting to be on the “right” side
- Why the COVID pandemic has become a “mass-disabling” event, especially regarding mental health
- Examples of ways in which the environmental movement has left those with disabilities behind
- Why society has a general disdain for disabled people and believes that they don’t (or won’t) contribute to society
- How the luxury of abled people trumps the necessity of the disabled
- What the function of capitalism is on disabled bodies
- How disabled people are used as pawns in the pro-choice/pro-life debate
- Why there is inherent racism in the pro-life movement
- What laziness is and is not
Resources:
Connect with Imani: Website and Instagram
Resources mentioned: https://www.sinsinvalid.org, https://disasterstrategies.org, https://www.americanprogress.org
Connect with KC: TikTok and Instagram
Get KC's Book, How to Keep House While Drowning
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Manage episode 347615012 series 3393039
I’m excited to introduce you to today’s guest. Imani Barbarin is a disability rights and inclusion activist and speaker who uses her platform for conversations around the disability community. I’ve followed her for a while on TikTok and appreciate the way she expresses her opinions and helps educate the rest of us. Come join us now!
Show Highlights:
- How Imani explored and discovered her passion for advocacy for disability and inclusion rights
- How climate change and disability are linked
- Why environmental ableism is a real thing
- How people have become victims of their non-nuanced thinking, only wanting to be on the “right” side
- Why the COVID pandemic has become a “mass-disabling” event, especially regarding mental health
- Examples of ways in which the environmental movement has left those with disabilities behind
- Why society has a general disdain for disabled people and believes that they don’t (or won’t) contribute to society
- How the luxury of abled people trumps the necessity of the disabled
- What the function of capitalism is on disabled bodies
- How disabled people are used as pawns in the pro-choice/pro-life debate
- Why there is inherent racism in the pro-life movement
- What laziness is and is not
Resources:
Connect with Imani: Website and Instagram
Resources mentioned: https://www.sinsinvalid.org, https://disasterstrategies.org, https://www.americanprogress.org
Connect with KC: TikTok and Instagram
Get KC's Book, How to Keep House While Drowning
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