The Madcast
The Madcast is a podcast that explores the intersection of disability, academia, and everything in between. From interviewing academics working towards disability justice to reviewing media portrayals of disability, the Madcast covers a wide range of topics for folks to tune into bimonthly (twice a month). Enjoy!
The podcast is hosted by the UC Berkeley Disability Lab and recorded at the Ethnic Studies Changemaker Studio at Cal.
UC Berkeley Disability Lab Linktree: https://linktr.ee/calradmadlab
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The Madcast © 2023 by Nate Tilton, Eliana Madera, Trisha Nguyen is licensed under Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International
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Latest Episodes
Episode 14: Unified Cutlery Theory
We hope you washed your dishes, because we're talking about spoon theory!Coined in 2003 by American writer Christine Miserandino, spoon theory is a concept used widely in the disability community to convey how disabled people make do wit...
Episode 13: Crip Spacetime w/ Dr. Margaret Price
This might just be our best episode yet.Today we talk with the incredible Dr. Margaret Price (she/they), a genderqueer and disabled English professor specializing in disability studies and rhetoric, about their book Crip Spacetime: A...
Episode 12: Superheroes & Disability (Part 2)
Oh my god, it's a sequel episode!Welcome back! This week El, Nate, and lyn are still geeking out superheroes and comic books. The conversation on disabled representation in superhero-related media continues, this time m...
Episode 11: Superheroes & Disability (Part 1)
Welcome back!This week’s episode of the Madcast features hosts El, Nate, and lyn geeking out on superheroes and comic books! Specifically, we’re looking at disabled representation in superhero-related media, across comic books, TV, movie...
Episode 10: Disability 101 - Principles of Disability Justice
Welcome back! On this week’s episode of the Madcast, hosts El and lyn cover yet another key disability studies/activism term: disability justice. Defined by members of the BIPOC, queer, and disabled performance art group Sins Inval...
