Holy Pride in disabled experiences and insights

Blessed Are the Binary Breakers

How can we use this last week of Disability Pride Month to celebrate the unique insights into human and divine nature that disability can bring? For starters, we can learn from the wisdom of disabled activists and theologians, which is what you'll find in this episode.

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Talking Points:

• (0:00) Intro + Eli Clare on intersectional pride
• (5:35) Pastor Lamar Hardwick: ableism = the fear of being human
• (9:10) Letiah Fraser: our fragile, mortal bodies are where we meet God
• (12:15) Rabbi Julia Watts Belser + Laura Sommer: disabled bodies' unique insights into the divine
• (22:00) John M. Hull: encountering God beyond light and dark
• (25:50) Bekah Anderson's meditation on the Body of God, "with every ability and every disability in the world"; wrapping up

Other episodes that dig into disability:

• Our Pride Is Not a Sin: A disabled and Christian lens
• No End to Transphobia without Uprooting Ableism: Exploring embedded forms of oppression
• Goodness Embodied: An intersex, nonbinary first human and a disabled risen Christ
• Marginalized Bodies as Spectacle & the Good News in Jesus’ Disabling Wounds
• Making Space for Gethsemane: Two trans & disabled theologians discuss what people in pain actually need
• How Shiva Gave Rudra Their Name: The life of a disabled nonbinary Fijian Canadian
• “We just want to be heard”: Dee on Chile, race, disability, and trans rights
• Eli and the Prophet Elijah

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This show's theme song is "Aetherium" by Leah Horn. This episode also makes use of "Flies on the Prize," "Beaconsfield Villa Stomp," "I Snost, I Lost," and "His Last Share of the Stars" by Doctor Turtle.