Enabling Commons
Welcome to Enabling Commons! This podcast is a space for dialogue among persons with disabilities to explore strategies that will transform our environments, our commons, to be meaningfully enabling for all.
Every episode, we have conversations with activists, experts, and scholars at the intersections between disability and climate change, unpacking and sharing knowledge. Click here to discover Season 1!
Host and audio production by Áine Kelly-Costello.
Transcripts and podcast promotion by Rose Paquet and Naomi Gupta.
Music composed and produced by Sam Morgan.
Access the trailer’s transcript.
EPISODES
New episode every Monday, on Spotify, Apple podcast and this website!
Digging Into the Archive with Dr. Julia Watts Belser
Back to the Villages, Living Off the Land, with Pavan Muntha
The Ableist City, with Karina Cardona
Community and Care for Ourselves and the Planet, with Tori Tsui
Disabled Messengers for Change with Dr. Mostafa Kamal Attia
Learning from Vanuatu with Nelly Caleb
Connecting to Nature with Dr Sasha Kosanic
Part of the More-than-human World with Hanna Cormick
MEET THE TEAM
Áine Kelly-Costello
Podcast host and audio producer
Áine Kelly-Costello (they/them) is a disabled story-teller, PhD candidate and advocate. In the climate and disability nexus, they write features for the disability Debrief newsletter, and have also worked with organisations on making campaigning more accessible and inclusive. Their story-telling and advocacy work has also spanned disability intersections with migration, journalism, political participation and independent living. Find their work here. Twitter: @ainekc95.
Image description: Áine, a white non-binary femme, stands smiling outdoors on a house balcony, their short brown hair blowing in the summer breeze. Suburban treetops dominate the background, with Auckland's skyline visible in the distance.
Sam Morgan
Music
Sam Morgan (Rongowhakaata, Te Aitanga-a-Mahaki) (he/him) is a disabled podcaster and musician based in Te Whanganui-a-Tara, Wellington, New Zealand.
Sam is mainly a guitarist and songwriter but enjoys composing music for podcasts and video. He holds a Bachelor of Commercial Music from Massey University and his honours research was strongly focused on music and accessibility.
Image description: Low angle photo of smiling light-skinned person (Sam) in front of a shabby house covered in flax and ivy.
Rose Paquet
Transcripts & promotion
Rose (she/her) is currently a student at the Faculty of law of McGill University, graduating in the Fall of 2023. A proudly disabled montrealer, Rose has a strong interest in human rights, especially disability law, health law and children law. With a love for communication, Enabling Commons is a perfect way to express both her intellectual and artistic side. In her personal time, she loves to crochet and cook (especially bread)!
Image description: Rose, a white woman wearing a patterned bandana, is smiling at the camera. She standing in front of a bright wall of purple flowers.
