Haleigh Rosa On Why Disability Has A Right To Be Seen

Always Looking Up

05/08/23

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52m

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In this week’s episode I sat down with Haleigh Rosa. Haleigh is a disability model, advocate, and founder of the foreveryone.foundation. Haleigh has collaborated with iconic brands including Off-White, Tommy Hilfiger and SKIMS, having appeared in a campaign launching the brand’s debut adaptive collection that recently went viral when conservative political commentator Candace Owens expressed her opposition to disability representation. We discuss the differences between being uneducated and being ignorant, how she and the disability community responded to what Candace Owens had to say, and why disability representation matters, why it is everything.

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This episode was edited and produced by Ben Curwin.

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Oliver Scheier On Seeing Disability As Cool

May 1, 2023

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48m

In this week’s episode I sat down with Oliver Scheier. Oliver, among many other things including fashion model and artist, is a human with a disability and he loves it. After sharing his story and talking about how the desire to wear jeans like everybody else led to the founding of the non-profit Runway of Dreams, we discuss what it means to him, as a disabled person, to walk the runways, how the impact of seeing disability in fashion has changed society’s perception of disability (and how it’s stayed the same), and that disability is cool.

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This episode was edited and produced by Ben Curwin.

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Dr. Rose Perry On Who Should Teach About Disability

May 15, 2023

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64m

In this week’s episode I sat down with Dr. Rose Perry. Rose, a self-described sociologist turned social innovator, is an applied research scientist with a Ph.D. in neuroscience & physiology. She is the founder and executive director of Social Creatures, a nonprofit social innovation and research organization on a mission to ensure that any individual can socially connect with others, and co-founder of Historicons, a toys and games company that celebrates diversity by using historical events and icons to represent, educate, and empower kids. We discuss how being disabled influenced her work, who should bear the responsibility of teaching kids at an early age about how to interact with someone who is different, and the social connections and relationships between non-disabled and disabled people and those within the disability community itself.

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Follow Dr. Rose Perry: LinkedIn: Rose Perry

Follow Social Creatures: Instagram: @socialcreaturz Website: https://www.thesocialcreatures.org

Follow Historicons: Instagram: @historicons TikTok: @historicons Website: https://www.historicons.com

Follow Me: Instagram: @jill_ilana , @alwayslookingup.podcast Website: https://www.jillianilana.com Email: alwayslookingup227@gmail.com

This episode was edited and produced by Ben Curwin.