Episode 39: Changing the Narrative

Kimberly talks to Luda Gogolushko, founder of Includas Publishing, about the importance of disability representation in media. They discuss the evolution of how disabled people are portrayed in media, as well as the possibilities and pitfalls of AI for the representation of people with disabilities in media.

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Thanks to Chris Ankin for use of his song, “Change.”

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Transcript

Welcome to demand and disrupt the disability podcast.

Here we will learn to advocate for ourselves and each other.

This podcast is supported with funds from the Advocato press based in Louisville, Kentucky.

Hello everyone.

And thank you for joining us on demand and disrupt.

I am your host, Kimberly Parsley and I'm Lisa McKinley.

And today my interview guest is Luda Gogoluszko and she is the founder of Include Us Publishing, which is a publisher whose goal is to increase media representation of people with disabilities.

And she is from the University of Oregon.

So I'm very excited about that.

I'm excited because it's October, which is the beginning of my favorite season, which is pretty much the whole last quarter of the year, because I love Halloween and then I love Thanksgiving and I even love the holidays.

So it's amazing.

It's like the best month of the entire year.

It is it.

I absolutely agree.

It's like, I think it's because finally we're getting some fall weather in Kentucky.

At least we can be convinced that there might be some fall weather coming.

Yeah, I love it.

Are you a pumpkin spice person?

Are you anti that?

I mean, it's it's it's OK, maybe a little and some coffee, but all the pumpkin spice cereal and pumpkin spice, baked beans, all like pumpkin spice, everything.

It's like some of it's a little weird.

I'll give you that.

I'll give you that.

But I've already gotten my pumpkin spice cream cheese to go on my bagel.

So that sounds like it would work.

I got a got my new decor.

I got a well, I think crystal skull.

I'm sure it's just like glass, but it's a clear skull and it apparently has glitter in it.

So if you turn it on, the glitter sparkles and then there's a candle sticking out of the top.

If you want to go for a little spookier sort of thing, Michael thinks it's the absolute tackiest thing that he's ever seen.

But we love it.

We love it.

It can't be as tacky as what we saw at Lowe's the other day.

It was a 10 foot animatronic skeleton for your yard that was $500.

It was that Lowe's or Home Depot because the 12 foot Home Depot skeleton is like a thing.

It's like iconic now.

Maybe it was Home Depot.

No, it's like a thing.

I mean like people, and then they're so expensive that I've seen people like keep them out all year and put like, you know, like a Santa Claus hat on them