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The Soft Bigotry of Low Expectations is a form of subtle prejudice where the people at the top of the social hierarchy don’t hold marginalized people to the standards of everyone else. How does this apply to disabled people? We discuss. A transcript for this episode can be found here.

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The disability community is supposed to be a bastion of open-mindedness. But is it? Do we shun people who think slightly differently than the collective “us”? We discuss as Emily tells the story of something that happened to her at a conference recently. A transcript for this episode can be found here.

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We have wanted to talk about disability and parents on this show for a long time. Specifically, the dynamic between an able-bodied parent and a disabled child. There were just two small problems: We are not parents, and we are disabled. Therefore, we had to bring in someone who knows that dynamic first-hand. The internet…