powerful impact

Each episode of Power Not Pity breaks the mold of how disabled people are usually portrayed. As an able-bodied person I've learned so much about what it’s like to live with a disability (and, particular, as a disabled person of color) in an ableist world, but the impact does not stop there because each guest always has so much more to share. I have come away from this podcast not only wanting to be more conscious of the issue of accessibility, but also questioning the way I internalize the demands of a capitalist society in ways that hurt my own body. Furthermore, as I am a writer, the podcast has inspired me to write characters with disabilities that are real, flawed people in themselves—not vessels, not tools, for the moral journeys of “normal” people.