What is the history of disability-accessible design? And how does this history get written? In this episode of Contra*, I talk to historians Elizabeth Guffey and Bess Williamson about their books on this topic.

Aimi speaks to Embry Wood Owen about disabled mutual aid organizing and the politics of public space during COVID-19.

Aimi speaks to Dr. Max Liboiron about administrative activism and the legacies of disabled and Indigenous mutual aid.

What is the history of disability-accessible design? And how does this history get written? In this episode of Contra*, I talk to historians Elizabeth Guffey and Bess Williamson about their books on this topic.

Aimi talks to Dasom Nah of the Disability Justice Culture Club about disability and mutual aid organizing.

Aimi talks to Jay Salazar of the Disability Justice Culture Club about disability and mutual aid organizing.

Brief notes on anti-Black violence, mourning the passing of Stacey Park Milbern, and mutual aid.

Aimi talks to Sulaiman Khan of This Ability about ableism and COVID-19

Aimi speaks to Ayah Nirrudin about eugenics, anti-Blackness, and COVID-19.

How are accessible spaces and designs maintained, and how can paying attention to maintenance challenge our ideas about design as always driven by innovation? In this episode of Contra*, I talk to Critical Design Lab member Leah Samples about her work on mapping the infrastructures of accessibility and designing protocols for the maintenance of technologies such as elevators. 

Aimi speaks to Dr. Michelle Murphy about eugenics and the economization of life in the time of COVID-19.

Aimi speaks to Dr. Jay Dolmage about disability, eugenics, and COVID-19.

Aimi talks to Alice Wong about ableism, disability culture, and COVID-19.

Aimi speaks with Dr. Arrianna Planey about COVID-19, health disparities, and critical health analysis.

How can disability culture inform our ways of thinking about communication technologies and digital spaces? In this episode of Contra*, I talk to media scholar Liz Ellcessor about the politics of technological design.

How can we think about disabled people as makers, and not just as users? In this episode of Contra*, I continue the conversation with Corbett O'Toole about disabled people as designers, tinkerers, and experimenters with environments of daily life.

How can we think about disabled people as makers, and not just as users? In the first of two Contra* episodes with my friend and colleague Corbett O'Toole, we discuss disabled people as design experts, focusing on transit systems and public spaces. 

Cassandra Hartblay talks about disability arts, curation, and conferences with Eliza Chandler, Lindsey Fischer, and Sean Lee. 

How are disabled artists, critics, and curators shaping the discourse about accessibility? In this episode of Contra*, I talk to Emily Watlington about her work as a curator of disability arts, thought, and practice, particularly around audio-visual media, captioning and description, and access labor.  

Image description is a practice that is often associated with creating accessibility for blind people. While, according to some people, image descriptions are supposed to be objective accounts of what is happening in a photo or film, some disabled artists are using image descriptions to critique other forms of inaccessibility. On this episode of Contra*, I talk to hard-of-hearing artist Liza Sylvestre about her work, which draws on methods of image description and film captioning to critique popular films, and with them, the broader culture of audism, which assumes that everyone has equal access to hearing sound.