Queering Ability

Episode 008: Brett Nachman

ACPA's Coalition for Disability, and Coalition for Sexuality and Gender Identities are excited to bring you Season 2 of the Queering Ability Podcast, hosted by Wayne Glass and Spencer Scruggs. This season, we bring you even more fabulous guests that share their compelling and powerful stories of navigating being both queer and having a disability. This episode, we speak with Neal McKinney, Associate Director of Off-Campus Programs at DePauw University. He also serves as a Title IX adminstrator and Social Justice Educator. We sit down with Neal to discuss his story of mental health and becoming his own advocate. Additionally, we take a chance to hear Neal discuss what it has been growing up black, gay and with mental health concerns in Texas and the Southern region of the United States.

ACPA's Coalition for Disability, and Coalition for Sexuality and Gender Identities are excited to bring you Season 2 of the Queering Ability Podcast, hosted by Wayne Glass and Spencer Scruggs. This season, we bring you even more fabulous guests that share their compelling and powerful stories of navigating being both queer and having a disability. This episode, we speak with Carly Nelson, a student at Kent State University, about her and others' experiences as college students on the Autism Spectrum. She specifically shares with us how we can challenge structures that exclude students on the spectrum as well as how living on the spectrum can intersect and inform queer identity.

ACPA's Coalition for Disability, and Coalition for Sexuality and Gender Identities are excited to bring you Season 2 of the Queering Ability Podcast, hosted by Wayne Glass and Spencer Scruggs. This season, we bring you even more fabulous guests that share their compelling and powerful stories of navigating being both queer and having a disability. This episode, we go outside of higher education and student affairs to speak with Emily Cutler to discuss interesting perspectives on MAD culture, redefining madness and mental health, and challenging environmental and societal barriers for people with disabilities.

Join Wayne and Spencer as they sit down with Maria Cambone, a graduating second year Master's student at Miami University of Ohio, to discuss queerness and disability and how these two identities influence and inform each other, particularly within the context of higher education and student affairs work.

Join us as we discuss the coming out process for queer individuals with disabilities and the intersectional work of Val Erwin, her passions and pursuits, and how we can support queer students with disabilities.

Join the Coalition for Disability and Coalition for Sexuality and Gender Identities as we chat with Arielle Clark, a Student Affairs professional at the University of Louisville in the Housing and Residence Life office. Arielle shares with us how her identity at a black queer polyamorous woman with a disability affects her work and how each of her identities influence and impact each other.

Join the Coalition for Disability and Coalition for Sexuality and Gender Identities as we sit down with Alandis to talk about their gender-queer identity and identity as an individual with a disability, particularly how the two influence and inform each other.