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  • The Pulse is a podcast discussing issues impacting the disability community across Canada on AMI-audio. Host Joeita Gupta, who is blind, also works full-time at a nonprofit in Toronto, specializing in housing/tenant rights.
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  • Exploring Accessible Travel with Christa Couture

    Exploring Accessible Travel with Christa Couture
    May 18 2024
    Joeita previews Season 5 of AMI-tv's "Postcards from..." with the show’s new host, Author & Artist Christa Couture. Christa discusses her travels to various parts of Canada, the challenges of travelling with a prosthetic, and the joy of exploring new places with all 5 senses. Highlights:Opening Remarks (00:00)Introducing Christa Couture – Writer, Musician, Broadcaster (01:19)About AMI-tv’s “Postcards From…” (03:23)Season 5 Travel Locations (04:37)Drumheller, the Dinosaur Capital of North America (05:30)Navigating Rugged Terrain with a Prosthetic (08:40)Bringing Attention to Accessibility Barriers (12:26)Prairie Oysters & Testy Festy (13:42)Dawson City & Whistler (16:36)Learning to Travel More Accessibly (18:09)Accessibility in Transportation (19:58)Unpacking the Suitcase Strategy (21:34)Travelling with Small Children (22:54)The Ultimate Souvenir (24:01)Show Close (25:55)Guest Bio:Christa Couture is an award-winning performing and recording artist, non-fiction writer and broadcaster. She is also proudly Indigenous, queer, disabled and a mom. Her sixth recording, Safe Harbour, was released March 2020. Her writing has been published in Room, Shameless and Augur magazines and cbc.ca. As a speaker and storyteller, she has addressed audiences for The Walrus Talks, CBC's DNTO, Moses Znaimer's ideaCity and Imaginate in Port Hope, ON. She is a frequent contributor to CBC Radio's Now or Never and The Next Chapter, and hosts Season 5 of AMI-tv’s accessible travel series “Postcards From…”Watch "Postcards From..." on AMIPlus.caFind Music from Christa Couture on Bandcamp“A remarkable chanteuse, singing superb material,” deems Roots Music of Christa Couture, an award-winning indie artist who has built a reputation for transforming tragedy into musical triumph, with sharp-shooting wit, effortless grace, and heart-on-sleeve intensity. Follow Christa Couture on FacebookChrista Couture's Book - How to Lose Everything: A MemoirChrista Couture has come to know every corner of grief—its shifting blurry edges, its traps, its pulse of love at the centre and the bittersweet truth that sorrow is a powerful and wise emotion.From the amputation of her leg as a cure for bone cancer at a young age to her first child’s single day of life, the heart transplant and subsequent death of her second child, the divorce born of grief and then the thyroidectomy that threatened her career as a professional musician, How to Lose Everything delves into the heart of loss. Couture bears witness to the shift in perspective that comes with loss, and how it can deepen compassion for others, expand understanding, inspire a letting go of little things and plant a deeper feeling for what matters. At the same time, Couture's writing evokes the joy and lightness that both precede and eventually follow grief, as well as the hope and resilience that grow from connections with others."How to Lose Everything" series on CBC GemHow to Lose Everything is an Indigenous series of animated short films that explore personal stories of loss. The five films’ stories span nations, languages, and perspectives on heartache.More from Christa Couture About The PulseOn The Pulse, host Joeita Gupta brings us closer to issues impacting the disability community across Canada.Joeita Gupta has nurtured a life-long dream to work in radio! She's blind, moved to Toronto in 2004 and got her start in radio at CKLN, 88.1 FM in Toronto. A former co-host of AMI-audio's Live from Studio 5, Joeita also works full-time at a nonprofit in Toronto, specializing in housing/tenant rights. Find Joeita on X / Twitter: https://twitter.com/JoeitaGupta The Pulse airs weekly on AMI-audio. For more information, visit https://www.ami.ca/ThePulse/ About AMIAMI is a not-for-profit media company that entertains, informs and empowers Canadians who are blind or partially sighted. Operating three broadcast services, AMI-tv and AMI-audio in English and AMI-télé in French, AMI’s vision is to establish and support a voice for Canadians with disabilities, representing their interests, concerns and values through inclusion, representation, accessible media, reflection, representation and portrayal. Learn more at AMI.caConnect on Twitter @AccessibleMediaOn Instagram @accessiblemediaincOn Facebook at @AccessibleMediaIncOn TikTok @accessiblemediaincEmail feedback@ami.ca
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    28 mins
  • Cooking Without Looking: Tips for the Blind Chef

    Cooking Without Looking: Tips for the Blind Chef
    May 11 2024

    Joeita discusses tips and tricks for blind home cooks with Renee Rentmeester, executive producer of the "Cooking Without Looking" TV show and podcast. She shares safety tips as well as accessible tricks of the trade.

    Highlights

    • Cooking & Blindness - Opening Remarks (00:00)
    • Introducing Renee Rentmeester of “Cooking Without Looking” TV Show and Podcast (01:10)
    • About “Cooking Without Looking” (02:29)
    • More on the Blind Hosts of the Show (03:47)
    • Where to Find “Cooking Without Looking” (04:38)
    • Typical Episode Format (05:17)
    • Choosing Guests for the Show (07:15)
    • Safety Tips for Blind Cooks (10:28)
    • Safety on the Stove Top (12:55)
    • Tips for Organizing Your Kitchen (15:00)
    • Using Your Other Senses (16:26)
    • Appliances, Kitchen Gadgets & Accessibility (18:11)
    • International Cuisine (20:17)
    • “Cooking Without Looking” Cookbook (22:51)
    • The Most Complicated Recipe Made on the Show? (24:32)
    • More Recipes & Tips from “Cooking without Looking” (26:19)
    • Show Close (27:28)

    “Cooking Without Looking” Website

    Cooking Without Looking is the First TV Show which features People who are Blind/Visually Impaired. We provide the stage for people to show what living blind is really like, and to create a bridge of understanding.

    Join the “Cooking Without Looking” Facebook Group

    About The Pulse

    On The Pulse, host Joeita Gupta brings us closer to issues impacting the disability community across Canada.

    Joeita Gupta has nurtured a life-long dream to work in radio! She's blind, moved to Toronto in 2004 and got her start in radio at CKLN, 88.1 FM in Toronto. A former co-host of AMI-audio's Live from Studio 5, Joeita also works full-time at a nonprofit in Toronto, specializing in housing/tenant rights.

    Find Joeita on X / Twitter: https://twitter.com/JoeitaGupta

    The Pulse airs weekly on AMI-audio.

    For more information, visit https://www.ami.ca/ThePulse/

    About AMI

    AMI is a not-for-profit media company that entertains, informs and empowers Canadians who are blind or partially sighted. Operating three broadcast services, AMI-tv and AMI-audio in English and AMI-télé in French, AMI’s vision is to establish and support a voice for Canadians with disabilities, representing their interests, concerns and values through inclusion, representation, accessible media, reflection, representation and portrayal.

    Learn more at AMI.ca

    Connect on Twitter @AccessibleMedia

    On Instagram @accessiblemediainc

    On Facebook at @AccessibleMediaInc

    On TikTok @accessiblemediainc

    Email feedback@ami.ca
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    29 mins
  • Unshrinking: Facing Fatphobia - Kate Manne

    Unshrinking: Facing Fatphobia - Kate Manne
    May 4 2024
    Joeita speaks with Kate Mann, Associate Professor Cornell University's Sage School of Philosophy & author of "Unshrinking: How to Face Fatphobia," which draws on personal experience & rigorous research to expose how size discrimination harms everyone, and how to combat it. HighlightsThe Insidiousness of Fatphobia - Opening Remarks (00:00)Society’s Fixation on Weight & the “Ideal Body” (01:07)Introducing Kate Manne, Author of “Unshrinking: How to Face Fatphobia” (01:59)Philosophical Interest in Misogyny & Fatphobia (02:22)Defining Fatphobia (04:17)Complicated Relationship Between Fatness & Health (06:03)Fatphobia in the Healthcare System (10:15)Weigh-In Process & Weight-Inclusive Physicians (12:27)Diabetes, BMI & Stigma (13:19)Intersections of Fatphobia, Race, Class, Ability & Gender (16:22)The Politics of Anti-Fatness as Anti-Blackness (18:28)Thin-Privilege (19:36)Beyond Body-Positivity (22:24)Thinsplaining - Book Excerpt (24:22)Find the Book “Unshrinking: Facing Fatphobia” (27:51)Show Close (28:33)Guest Bio - Kate Manne is an associate professor of philosophy at Cornell University, where she’s been teaching since 2013. Before that, she was a junior fellow at the Harvard Society of Fellows. Manne did her graduate work in philosophy at MIT and is the author of two previous books, Down Girl and Entitled.“Unshrinking: How to Face Fatphobia” By Kate Manne from Penguin Random House“An elegant, fierce, and profound argument for fighting fat oppression in ourselves, our communities, and our culture.”—Roxane Gay, author of HungerFor as long as she can remember, Kate Manne has wanted to be smaller. She can tell you what she weighed on any significant occasion: her wedding day, the day she became a professor, the day her daughter was born. She’s been bullied and belittled for her size, leading to extreme dieting. As a feminist philosopher, she wanted to believe that she was exempt from the cultural gaslighting that compels so many of us to ignore our hunger. But she was not.Blending intimate stories with the trenchant analysis that has become her signature, Manne shows why fatphobia has become a vital social justice issue. Over the last several decades, implicit bias has waned in every category, from race to sexual orientation, except one: body size. Manne examines how anti-fatness operates—how it leads us to make devastating assumptions about a person’s attractiveness, fortitude, and intellect, and how it intersects with other systems of oppression. Fatphobia is responsible for wage gaps, medical neglect, and poor educational outcomes; it is a straitjacket, restricting our freedom, our movement, our potential.In this urgent call to action, Manne proposes a new politics of “body reflexivity”—a radical reevaluation of who our bodies exist in the world for: ourselves and no one else. When it comes to fatphobia, the solution is not to love our bodies more. Instead, we must dismantle the forces that control and constrain us, and remake the world to accommodate people of every size.Articles:In 'Unshrinking,' a writer discusses coming out as fat and pushing back against bias - NPR InterviewFighting Fatphobia and Embracing ‘Unshrinking’: The Ms. Q&A With Kate Manne - MS Magazine Reference:Belly of the Beast The Politics of Anti-Fatness as Anti-Blackness by Da'Shaun L. HarrisonTo live in a body both fat and Black is to exist at the margins of a society that creates the conditions for anti-fatness as anti-Blackness. Hyper-policed by state and society, passed over for housing and jobs, and derided and misdiagnosed by medical professionals, fat Black people in the United States are subject to sociopolitically sanctioned discrimination, abuse, condescension, and trauma.Da’Shaun Harrison—a fat, Black, disabled, and nonbinary trans writer—offers an incisive, fresh, and precise exploration of anti-fatness as anti-Blackness, foregrounding the state-sanctioned murders of fat Black men and trans and nonbinary masculine people in historical analysis. Policing, disenfranchisement, and invisibilizing of fat Black men and trans and nonbinary masculine people are pervasive, insidious ways that anti-fat anti-Blackness shows up in everyday life. Fat people can be legally fired in forty-nine states for being fat; they’re more likely to be houseless. Fat people die at higher rates from misdiagnosis or nontreatment; fat women are more likely to be sexually assaulted. And at the intersections of fatness, Blackness, disability, and gender, these abuses are exacerbated.Taking on desirability politics, the limitations of gender, the connection between anti-fatness and carcerality, and the incongruity of “health” and “healthiness” for the Black fat, Harrison viscerally and vividly illustrates the myriad harms of anti-fat anti-Blackness. They offer strategies for dismantling denial, unlearning the cultural programming that tells us “fat is bad,” and destroying the world as we know...
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    30 mins
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