Maria Rabaino On Living Boundlessly

Always Looking Up

10/10/22

•

60m

About

Comments

Featured In

In this week’s episode I sat down with Maria Rabaino. Maria is a wheelchair user, certified fitness trainer and founding member of the Rollettes, a wheelchair dance team that empowers women with disabilities to live boundlessly and shift perspectives globally. We discuss why disability belongs in fitness, the impact social media has to make a space more accessible, and the positive force for change that is created when disability communities come together.

Follow Maria: Instagram: @mariarabaino TikTok: @mariarabaino

Follow the Rollettes: Instagram: @rollettes_la TikTok: @rollettes_la YouTube: Rollettes Dance Team

Follow Me: Instagram: @jill_ilana , @alwayslookingup.podcast Twitter: @jillx3456 Website: https://www.jillianilana.com Email: alwayslookingup227@gmail.com

This episode was edited and produced by Ben Curwin

Previous Episode

Bri Scalesse On What It Means To Actually Be Inclusive Of All Bodies

October 3, 2022

•

60m

In this week’s episode I welcomed back Bri Scalesse. Bri is a wheelchair user, model, influencer, and advocate. This episode was recorded right after New York Fashion Week ended where Bri wheeled the runways in three shows and absolutely slayed like the true queen she is. We discuss the disability hierarchy and what it means to have the wheelchair user be the icon for the disabled community, what disability representation looked like at this year’s New York Fashion Week and the need for greater representation both on the runways and in the audience, examine what it means to be truly inclusive as a brand or a designer, and so much more.

Read the transcription HERE

Follow Bri: Instagram: @briscalesse TikTok: @briscalesse

Listen to Bri's first episode HERE

Follow Me: Instagram: @jill_ilana , @alwayslookingup.podcast Twitter: @jillx3456 Website: https://www.jillianilana.com Email: alwayslookingup227@gmail.com

This episode was edited and produced by Ben Curwin

Next Episode

Dr. Ben Barry On What We Are Teaching The Future Of Fashion

October 17, 2022

•

59m

In this week’s episode I sat down with Dr. Ben Barry. Ben is the Dean of Fashion at Parsons School of Design, a disability fashion activist, and researcher. He is currently leading the project Crippling Masculinity that explores how D/deaf, disabled, and nondivergent men and masculine people experience the world and make new worlds through fashion. We discuss the different approaches towards making fashion accessible for the disabled community, the importance of interdependence in fashion, and what the future of fashion is learning today.

Read the transcription HERE

Follow Ben: @bendrakbarry

Follow Parsons: @parsonsschoolofdesign, @sof_parsons Website: https://www.newschool.edu/parsons/

Follow Me: Instagram: @jill_ilana, @alwayslookingup.podcast Twitter: @jillx3456 Email: alwayslookingup227@gmail.com Website: https://www.jillianilana.com

This episode was edited and produced by Ben Curwin