Episodes

  • Meet An Alien
    Sep 4 2023

    Hilary Brown joins us with fabulous new work!

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    16 mins
  • Actually! I'm Not Okay!
    Aug 15 2023

    Dawn Took shares the story of finding out she contracted HIV while Rae Rose explains bipolar insomnia and its dangerous repercussions. We're digging deep, people.

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    24 mins
  • Leveling Up
    Aug 14 2023

    My girls reach new milestones this week and I AM NOT OKAY WHY ARE YOU SO OKAY WITH THIS?

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    5 mins
  • The Long Haul
    Jul 24 2023

    Nothing I write -- especially in this little block somewhere on the internet -- can do justice to the friendship I have with our guest, Lisa Albright Ratnavira. But showcasing her poetry must be some kind of beginning?

    In this episode, Lisa Albright Ratnavira serves up poem after poem about the complicated mother and daughter relationship and I totally forget what I am talking talking about, which is funny because it is because of my traumatic brain injury that was making me not remember the words "traumatic brain injury."

    Lisa's book is located here: Grief's Labyrinth and other poems https://a.co/d/0QKUZ7v

    and work is located on GaminiRatnavira.com

    xoxo

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    33 mins
  • Her Watermelon
    Jul 10 2023

    A DISASTROUS trip to the ER, a trip with Aunt Freaking Gladys to the doctor's office -- oy vey. Shame and disability.

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    18 mins
  • Disabled Piggy
    Jun 26 2023

    Poetry and essays about disability with Jim Ferris, Andrew Palasciano, Christine Kalafus and Ginger Carlson!

    Transcript: Jim Ferris:
    Talking with the President of the United States


    this must have been a dream

    but it feels like a memory

    because when you meet the President

    of the United States you would remember it,

    at least a guy like me would, or should,

    unless he has dementia or something,

    but the President, he’s looking at

    my shoes, I mean everybody looks

    at my left shoe because it’s so

    built up and everything, but

    the President of the United States

    wants to talk about my shoes,

    and I know I should feel

    embarrassed or something because

    my shoes don’t even come close

    to matching, when a kid on the street

    says How come your shoes don’t match

    I tell ‘em Because my feet don’t match,

    no wonder they didn’t want me

    in the army, but all the Commander

    in Chief wants to talk about is my shoes,

    he even notices my right shoe,

    that’s probably why he’s President,

    now I have to look at his shoes too,

    and soon enough one of his

    Very Important Handlers

    shoos him off to somebody

    more consequential, but I met

    the President of the United States

    and we talked, for a moment,

    but probably it was a dream,

    maybe for both of us


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    28 mins
  • Named Boo
    Jun 12 2023

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    29 mins
  • Your Aunt Gladys!
    Jun 12 2023

    Send your Aunt Gladys stories to oddandglorious.com !

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    5 mins