Disability Pride

Writer and director David Wayne Reed revives Shelf Life, his popular show-and-tell storytelling series, for Big Read 2025. The event – focusing on soma, or the body – features five new stories from Reed, Big Read featured author Rebekah Taussig, musician and amputee advocate Billy Brimblecom, poet Canese Jarboe, and vi...

Rebekah Taussig discusses her book Sitting Pretty: The View from My Ordinary, Resilient, Disabled Body. The author, who lost the use of her legs as a toddler, talks about the public consequences of ignoring differences in ability; everyone, she says, lives in a body with limitations, so conversations about accessibilit...

Learn about the past, present, and future of vision loss during the premiere of the podcast and video series Foresight, produced by Kansas City’s Alphapointe. After a partial screening of Foresight, KSHB-TV reporter Rae Daniel moderates a panel discussion featuring Paterson (joining online), KCATA CEO and p...