In the fourth and final part of our Reclaiming The Word Crip series, we suggest some insightful, engaging and funny disability podcasts you should listen to, which are sharing the true lives of cripples across the world.
Crippled With Anxiety
Between the hosts, Danny and Will, have a wide range of lived experiences with both mental and physical health conditions.
They’re meant to be there to protect us, but like Dobby in Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets, Danny’s brain and Will’s immune system are doing so much, that it’s almost killing them.
On the Crippled With Anxiety podcast, Danny and Will unpack their brains and tell stories of how they live their lives with disabling conditions and how there is always light at the end of the tunnel, no matter how dark and long it may seem.
The Cripple Chronicles
The Cripple Chronicles is a podcast about Ilizarov frames, amputation and the journey to accepting and embracing disability. Hosted by Becca, she was in a pretty bad car accident at the end of 2019 where she broke her collarbone and both of her legs, resulting in an Ilizarov frame from her hip down to her ankle.
She tried this method for two and a half years, which unfortunately resulted in her having her right leg amputated above the knee in August 2022.
In each episode, Becca shares her experience from her accident through to where she is now, as well as what life is like as a fairly new amputee and how she is finding things in the world, which isn’t really built for disabled people. There is also the opportunity for listeners to get involved and interact with Becca on their own experiences of living with disabilities.
Crip Crap: The Podcast
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Crip Crap: The Podcast covers a range of topics, both political and fun, and all related to disability.
Hosted by Justin Cooper, filmmaker, photographer, and founder of Cooper Industries and Kennedy Healy, writer, media maker, and founder of Crip Crap, which also has a blog and consultancy services.
Two Cripples, One Pair Of Legs
In the podcast Two Cripples, One Pair Of Legs, hosts Adam Sheppard and Natasha Price take a long hard look at the world through the eyes of two people who believe in grabbing life by the balls and squeezing tighter than Borat into a Mankini, who between them have close to 60 years lived experience as people with disabilities.
The good, the bad, the often cringeworthy but most importantly the hilarity that can and often does ensue.
If you’re looking for fluffy sunshine and rainbows, My Little Pony meets Care Bears type of purity, you’ve probably come to the wrong place. If you’re after good conversation, warped humour, quick wit, a touch of sarcasm and two proud people with disabilities with a no holds barred, leave no stump unturned outlook on life, you’re in the right place.
The Mad and Crip Theology Podcast
The Mad and Crip Theology Podcast is hosted by Amy Panton and Miriam Spies. They are Mad and Crip theologians who want to contribute to change. Join them as they talk with theologians, artists, activists, writers and members of the mad/disabled and crip communities who are doing important work in Canada and around the world. This podcast is an opportunity to model how faith communities can engage in theological and spiritual conversations around madness and cripness.
Other crip podcasts you may like to listen to:
Can you suggest any other crip podcasts we should be listening to? Let us know in the comments box or on social media.
Looking for other podcast inspirations? Check out 11 Disability Podcasts That Give Advice, Support And Humour
Liberating the word “crip”
Don’t forget to read the rest of our Reclaiming The Word Crip series, which includes crip organisations, crip books and crip films.
We hope by you reading this series, you have a better understanding of the words “crip” and “cripple”, why the disability community is liberating them and you’re aware of the number of individuals and companies that are also embracing these terms as we have at Crip Life™.