Outlook 2024-07-08 - On The Road For Disability Pride Month, An Early July Mixed Bag Monday

What is the Canadian Disability Hall of Fame? We talk questions like this and more in the first show of an important month for the disability community which we’ve marked for a few years now on air.

Happy Disability Pride Month everyone!

We celebrated Canada last week by replaying an episode with a fellow Canadian: Anne Mok’s Purpose In View, but we’re back, live, on Outlook this week with the three of us and Oyster the guide dog.

And we’ll be taking Outlook on the road this month, doing lived experience work, with a group of blind friends to celebrate disability pride together.

We’re talking PRIDE today - on this week’s Mixed Bag show we discuss the upcoming trip to Portland, Maine and Boston and what we’re doing at an inn in Maine for a week with other blind creatives, the three tourist experiences we have planned to meet each one of our interests, and we discuss why “pride? In the first place.

Also, The National Federation of the Blind is one of a few organized blindness movements having their annual convention at the beginning of Disability Pride Month so we go over some of their 2024 resolutions to see what they’re up to and these matters in the resolutions, we choose to discuss a few which we have something to say about, including their motion that Perkins School for the Blind should change their name because Perkins was involved in the illegal opium trade and in enslaved people.

Between the two halves of our live show this week, our commercial for Outlook was chosen to air by the computer system at the station and it ends with the sound of a Perkins Brailler. It’s always been Perkins to us, we’re going on a tour of that historic school for blind children later this month, but we acknowledge the collective trauma caused by the honouring of men like Perkins and his hand in perpetrating lasting damage. We’re exploring all the issues which matter to blind people where and how and when we can.

So happy Disability Pride from us at Outlook On Radio Western. And why call it pride when Pride Month is June for LGBTQ2S+ just the month before?

There are blind people in both minorities so we’re honoured to follow, (the very next month) their path toward greater representation and inclusion.

Check out our past episode featuring 2024 Canadian Disability Hall of Fame inductee Penny Bennett here:

https://podcasts.apple.com/ca/podcast/outlook-2021-06-28-deafblind-awareness-month-with/id1527876739?i=1000527431020