The Human Experience of Disability
by Sarah Vazquez
This podcast is about highlighting the Human Experience of Disability. Often times people who experience disabilities overlooked and under estimated. They are viewed for their medical diagnosis and their need for social services in this country. This podcast will explore the disability experience as a human one. It will analyze and evaluate the disability experience from many life’s perspectives. It will be viewed from a personal and professional lens. Ultimately, It looks too celebrate the disability experience and showcase that the community is a vital part of society
Episodes
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Episode 24: Black History Month!
In this episode, Sarah marries disability, history with black history. She shares how the Black Panthers were intricate support system to the disability rights movement. It is her way to pay homage to the black and brown community and thank them for their contribution to assisting people with...
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Episode 23: Dr. King’s Day!
On this day, Sarah remembers Dr. Martin Luther King. She contemplates on his very famous “I Have Dreams” speech. She shares how the speech has influenced her work as an s disability advocate, as well as her view on American history. This podcast episode is Sarah’s homage to Dr. King and his…
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Episode 22: Respect.
In this episode, Sarah Wishes everyone a Happy New Year. She leaves her closing thoughts in this episode about the community she so proudly represents. She shares that in many cases people who have met her and learned about her life have often felt admiration for her. Even though she respects and...
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Episode 21: Providing services to people with disabilities versus Support them?
In this episode, Sarah talks about the difference between providing service to people who experience disabilities versus supporting people with disabilities. She talks about it in regards to the Medicaid and Medicare social service systems that often times people who experience disabilities have…
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Episode 20: What it Means to Self-Direct
In this episode, Sarah explains what self-direction means for the disability community. How self-direction has been something people who experience disabilities have had to advocate for because it is not expected that people who experience disabilities self- direct their lives. She talks about…
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Episode 19: Disability and Trauma
In this episode, Sarah talks about trauma. She is very explicit with her experience with trauma as it relates to her disability experience. Sarah shares about how she recognize trauma within her life, was able to discover the root of it and most of all heal from the trauma. Sarah believes trauma…
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Episode 18: The Oscars and Disabilities
Sarah talks about last nights Oscars and the incident between Will Smith and Chris Rock. From her perspective, She is the notion that the incident between the two actors could have provided an opportunity for a conversation about disabilities, particularly disabilities that are not seen to the...
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Celebrating The most important Woman in my life and Remembering the Women of Ukraine.
In this episode, Sarah celebrate her mother’s birthday. She talks about the influence that her mother has had in her life. Sarah speaks about how her mothers journey from Puerto Rico to the states in order to find medical and educational support when Sarah was only four years old. She also takes...
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Episode 16: Celebrating African-American history and Continuing the fight
In this episode, Sarah talks about celebrating African-American history and all that people of African descent have gone through in order to gain equal rights in America and how the fight continue. She also intersects race and disability in this episode. She shares her thoughts about how black…
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Episode 15: How Dr. King’s work has influenced me!
In this episode Sarah explains her first encounter with learning about Dr. King as a child. She shares how that first lesson influenced her college career as well as her professional career as a national speaker and advocate for the community that experiences disabilities.
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Episode 14: Diversity and Disability
In this episode, Sarah talks about the diversity within the disability community. She talks about her own experiences about how people tend to assume certain things about her because she experiences a disability. She does this to exemplify the diversity of her experience versus the diversity of...
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Episode 13: Gratitude and Disability
In this episode, Sarah talks about disability from a personal perspective. She shares with the audience her gratitude for her experience with her disability. She talks about her spiritual journey and what she has to learned about herself as she navigates her own disability experience.
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Episode 12: What is and is not Inclusion?
In this episode, Sarah talks about what inclusion is and what it is not. It is a topic that she is very passionate about. Her goal is to make the distinction between what truly is inclusion and who needs to be defining it, which is people who experience disabilities. She also talks about to how…
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Episode 11: The Affects of Intersectionality On the Disability Community
In episode 11 of the Human Experience of Disability, Sarah explores the affects of Intersectionality. She talks about how Intersectionality is often not viewed through the lens of disability and the consequences that stems from such a perspective. She hears her own personal story of how...
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Social Construct of Disability
In this episode Sarah explains what the social construct of disability is and how it is used to informed society about people who experience disabilities. She like is it to the social construct of race in America. She hopes that it will inform her audience in the way that makes them think about…
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Episode 9: Embracing Disability
In this episode, Sarah talks about how the disability community is moving the needle a bit further in how it is defining and showcasing the disability to the world. From her vantage point, Sarah sees that the disability experience is being seen in a more positive light by individuals who…
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Episode 8: Am I going to be able to vote?
In this episode, Sarah talks to About voting restriction voting laws being proposed and 48 states across do United States. She highlights how such laws if enacted would specifically impede people who experience disabilities from voting. Sarah explains that the accessibility to voting for people…
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Episode 7: What the business industry can do to provide good customer service
In this episode, Sarah talks about What best customer service practices in the business industry can look and feel like. She shares her experiences and her perspective on how companies can provide better customer service attention to people who experience disabilities. It is topic that barely…
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Episode 6: Ablism
In this episode, Sarah explains what Ablism is, what looks like and what can done to get rid of it. She compares Ablism to White Supremacy. She provides concrete examples of Ablism to provoke listeners to be aware of how it shows up in society and their communities. She encourages the listeners…
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Episode 5: Me and my Brother on Siblings Day!
In this episode, Sarah sits down with her older brother, Octavio Vazquez, to talk about his experience as a sibling growing up with a sister who experiences a disability. Jr., as he is more commonly known as, shares his ideas about disabilities, his understanding of disabilities as a sibling and...
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Episode 4: Disability and physical beauty?
In episode four of The Human Experience of Disability, Sarah explores and opens the dialogue of what is considered beautiful in this country and how disability does not coincide with such ideas or standards. Sarah offers her perspective as a way to open up the dialogue in order to challenge...
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Episode 3: The Importance of Self-Advocacy
In the third episode of The Human experience of Disability Sarah explains how self-advocacy is one of the most important ways that the community of people that experience disabilities is able to get their voices heard and be recognized as respectable and contributing citizens of society. She…
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Episode 2:Disability History
Disability history is rarely talked about. In this Episode Vazquez talks about disability history from the perspective of how people who experience disabilities were institutionalized and considered as subhumans in society. She also talks about some of the civil rights laws that helped people who...
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Episode 1: Words Matter and Shape our World
In this first episode Sarah Vazquez explains the importance of language as it relates to the community of people that experiences disability. She discusses how words matter because they shape how people are presented to the world. She speaks to the historic way people who experience disabilities...
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Intro Episode the Human Experience of Disability
Find out who Sarah Helena Vazquez is and her perspective on the disability experience from an personal and professional points of view. Vazquez is a author, advocate and national speaker. She shares her personal upbringing and how she was raised to believe in herself and view her diagnosis of...
About this show
This podcast is about highlighting the Human Experience of Disability. Often times people who experience disabilities overlooked and under estimated. They are viewed for their medical diagnosis and their need for social services in this country. This podcast will explore the disability experience as a human one. It will analyze and evaluate the disability experience from many life’s perspectives. It will be viewed from a personal and professional lens. Ultimately, It looks too celebrate the disability experience and showcase that the community is a vital part of society
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Sarah Vazquez
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