Braaains cover art

All Episodes

Braaains — 86 episodes

#
Title
1

Champions and Intellectual Disabilities

2

Because of You: A History of Kilawin Kolektibo and Filipinx queer activism

3

Heard: A film about the Hard of Hearing spectrum

4

How to Train Your Dragon and Living with Blindness and a Brain Tumour

5

Mārama: Māori gothic horror and the trauma of colonialization and cultural theft

6

Popcorn Disabilities: The highs and lows of disabled representation in the movies

7

Unfolding Faith and How Deconversion Redefines Identity and Relationships

8

Crip Trip and the Labour of Care Work

9

Military Service and Life After Deployment

10

Navigating Low Vision and Albinism on Pretty Blind

11

Reframing Life After an Acquired Disability

12

PBS's The Class and the Importance of Mentorship

13

Youth and Suicide in American Cinema

14

Ontario Place and the Importance of Third Places

15

How Family Separation via Migrant Labour Work Impacts Mental Health

16

Brilliant Minds and the Realities of Face Blindness

17

Disney+'s Out of My Mind and the Importance of Being Heard

18

TIFF Special: Building Inclusive Futures

19

Men's Mental Health within the Black Community

20

TIFF Special: Horror, disability, and access

21

TIFF Special: SAD JOKES and the Perspective of Being a Carer

22

Empire Waist's Exploration of Body Image and Teen Friendship

23

Suicidal Ideation in The Bear, Modern Love, and Nadine Crocker's Continue

24

Summer break and Edmonton event!

25

Exploring Family Dramas & How Anxiety Manifests in Relationships

26

The Family Stone and other Breast Cancer Stories

27

The Big C: Breast Cancer and Mental Health

28

The Stigmas of Facial Differences

29

Understanding Facial Differences in Deadpool

30

Five Types of Imposter Syndrome

31

Impostor Syndrome in Cyrano de Bergerac

32

Depression in Film and TV

33

Depression: A conversation with the creators of CBC Gem's Get Up, Aisha

34

Breaking the Stigmas and Preparing for Menopause

35

Navigating Menopause: Fleabag, Sex and the City, and Girlfriends' Guide to Divorce

36

Dispelling Myths of Transracial Adoption in Media w/ Dr. Jill L. Creighton

37

The Handmaid's Tale, This is Us, and Adoption w/ research sociologist and author, Gretchen Sisson

38

Working with disability and mental health consultants

39

Vision Loss and Blindness on Sight Unseen

40

BPD and Mental Health Representation in My Crazy Ex-Girlfriend

41

Atlanta, Insecure, and Bipolar Disorder

42

A Little Advice for the Holidays

43

Causeway and Traumatic Brain Injury

44

Investigating Inequality Across Film and TV with the Annenberg Inclusion Initiative

45

The Conjuring, Paranormal Activity, and Our Obsession with Ghost Stories

46

Midsommar, Charlie Says, and the Reality of Cults

47

You're Not Alone: When and How to Disclose

48

You're Not Alone: The Road to Diagnosis

49

You're Not Alone: How Stigma Hurts Everyone

50

You're Not Alone: Navigating Life with Mental Illness (trailer)

51

Blindspotting and life after incarceration

52

Sense8, The Politician, and Gender Freedom

53

The Swearing Jar and Brain Aneurysms

54

CBC's virgins!, Immigration, and Bicultural Identity

55

Everything Everywhere All at Once & ADHD

56

Turning Red, The Baby-Sitters Club, and Diabetes

57

As We See It and Autism

58

The Devil's Backbone & Spina Bifida

59

Grey's Anatomy, Scrubs, and Emergency Medicine

60

Motherless Brooklyn and Tourette Syndrome

61

Speechless, Special, and Cerebral Palsy

62

United States of Tara, Split, & Dissociative Identity Disorder

63

The Last of Us and Disability Representation

64

Shrill and the Impact of Fat Representation

65

Holidays on Film

66

Stephen King's IT and Stuttering

67

Multiple Sclerosis

68

Misogyny

69

Trauma & Horror Films

70

Addiction

71

Rural Medicine and Lack of Medical Access

72

Language

73

Death of a Parent

74

As Good As it Gets and OCD

75

Aphantasia

76

Animal-assisted Therapy

77

Abortion Onscreen

78

Abortion

79

Hookups and Consent

80

Twins and Triplets

81

Grief

82

Children's Brains

83

Burnout

84

Sleep

85

Identity

86

Introducing: Braaains Podcast