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Opening Doors is a podcast about accessibility in arts and civic life, from Jack Straw and the Seattle Cultural Accessibility Consortium. Now in our second season, we continue to amplify the voices of outstanding individuals with disabilities of all kinds.

Listen and subscribe at soundcloud.com/OpeningDoorsPod – or wherever you get your podcasts.

Season one:

Kameko Thomas: The Invisible Disability (transcript)
Troy Coalman: How THEY see US / How WE see ourselves (transcript)
King Khazm: Where Art, Racism, and Disability Intersect (transcript)
ChrisTiana Obeysumner: Intersectionality (transcript)

Opening Doors Podcast · Opening Doors Season 1

Season two:

Nasreen Alkhateeb: Universal Design in Film (transcript)
Elsa Sjunneson: Defining Deafblind Intersectionality (transcript)
Vince Medrano: Revealing Intersectional Identity through Art (transcript)
Tatiana Lee: Blackness & Disability Intersecting with Art (transcript)

Opening Doors Podcast · Opening Doors Season 2

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Our New Podcast Opening Doors Is Here!

September 15, 2020

Opening Doors is a podcast about accessibility in arts and civic life, brought to you by the Seattle Cultural Accessibility Consortium and Jack Straw Cultural Center. For our first season, we aim to amplify the voices of Black, Indigenous, and People of Color with disabilities, and to learn how race and disability impact their access […]