Cripademia Book Club Pod (with Long Covid Advocacy)

Welcome to the Cripademia Book Club Podcast. We are a chronic illness and disability reading collective.Quarterly and intersectional (with the occasional non-book episode), we explore in community: chronic illness, disability, medical history and crip culture. Hosted by Long Covid Advocacy. 📚 ⁠Cripademia Book Club on Fable⁠: https://bit.ly/crp-fable📷 ⁠Cripademia Instagram⁠: https://www.instagram.com/cripademia/💙 ⁠Long Covid Advocacy: https://www.longcovidadvoc.com/⁠🎧 SubscribeThank you for listening and supporting sick and disabled-led work

Cripademia Book Club Pod (with Long Covid Advocacy) is a health podcast hosted by Long Covid Advocacy, with 6 episodes on record and a Required Pod Score of 80.

Long Covid Advocacy hosts Cripademia Book Club Pod (with Long Covid Advocacy), a health show with 6 episodes published.

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  Episode #6

  06 - On Fairy Tales & Disability: Discussing Disfigured with Amanda Leduc | Cripademia Book Club

  Sep 22, 20261h 3mS1

  Join us for a conversation with Amanda Leduc, author of Disfigured: On Fairy Tales, Disability, and Making Space. We’ll explore disability and difference in fairy tales, the Disneyfication of darker stories, representation, and what happens when disabled people reclaim the stories we’ve been told about our bodies. Disfigured by Amanda Leduc ️ Cripademia is Long Covid Advocacy’s chronic illness and disability book club. Chapters 0:00 Introduction 0:39 What inspired Disfigured? 5:33 Fairy tales and disability 9:10 Why are transformations so central to fairy tales? 11:08 Can fairy tales have happy endings without transformation? 14:40 How fairy tales shape attitudes towards disabled bodies 18:09 The “nerd transformation” and beauty conventions 20:36 Disney, fairy tales and what we lose 25:30 Disney as a capitalist empire 29:16 Stories of collective transformation 37:37 Complex embodiment and Long Covid 39:00 The medical model, social model and complex embodiment 43:34 Disability is dynamic 45:22 Surgery, transformation and making space 50:44 Listening rather than measuring 53:52 Who is writing better stories about disability? 56:49 Disability in Star Trek, Pixar and Inside Out 58:41 Can changing stories change culture? 1:01:01 Disability representation and social change 1:01:39 What’s next for Amanda Leduc? 1:02:45 Goodbye Amanda's website Cripademia on IG Cripademia book club on Fable Long Covid Advocacy #Cripademia #AmandaLeduc #Disfigured #FairyTales #DisabilityRepresentation #Bookclub #Disability #LongCovid

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  Episode #6

  06 - On Fairy Tales & Disability: Discussing Disfigured with Amanda Leduc | Cripademia Book Club

  Sep 22, 20261h 3mS1

  <p>Join us for a conversation with Amanda Leduc, author of Disfigured: On Fairy Tales, Disability, and Making Space.</p><p>We’ll explore disability and difference in fairy tales, the Disneyfication of darker stories, representation, and what happens when disabled people reclaim the stories we’ve been told about our bodies.</p><p>📚 Disfigured by Amanda Leduc</p><p>🎙️ Cripademia is Long Covid Advocacy’s chronic illness and disability book club.</p><p><br></p><p>Chapters</p><p>0:00 Introduction<br>0:39 What inspired Disfigured?<br>5:33 Fairy tales and disability<br>9:10 Why are transformations so central to fairy tales?<br>11:08 Can fairy tale...

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  Episode #5

  05 - On Medical Misogyny: Discussing Unwell Women with Dr Elinor Cleghorn | Cripademia Book Club

  May 29, 20261h 10mS1

  <p>Welcome to the Cripademia Book Club.</p><p>In this episode, we speak with Dr Elinor Cleghorn, historian of medicine and author of Unwell Women: A Journey Through Medicine and Myth in a Man-Made World.</p><p>Together, we explore the long history of women's health being misunderstood, dismissed, and mythologised, and discuss how these historical narratives continue to shape medicine and healthcare today.</p><p>For many people living with chronic illness, particularly women and gender minorities, these histories are not confined to the past—they continue to influence diagnosis, treatment, and whose experiences are believed. This conversation ex...

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  Episode #4

  04 - On Medical Education: A Special for Long Covid Awareness Day with Dr David Putrino | Cripademia

  Mar 14, 20261h 14mS1

  <p>In this special episode for Long Covid Awareness Day, Dr Rupert Higham, lecturer in Learning and Leadership from the Institute of Education at UCL speaks with Professor David Putrino, neuroscientist and rehabilitation specialist at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai - and general legend!</p><p>Professor Putrino is also the Nash Family Director of the Cohen Center for Recovery from Complex Chronic Illnesses (CoRE), where his team researches and treats infection-associated chronic illnesses (IACI) including Long Covid, ME, and chronic Lyme disease.</p><p>Since the start of the COVID-19 pandemic, Professor Putrino has become a...

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  Episode #3

  03 - On ME Representation: Discussing Awakened with Laura Elliott | Cripademia Book Club

  Mar 12, 202640 minS1

  <p>Welcome to the Cripademia Book Club.</p><p>In this episode, we speak with Laura Elliott, writer, researcher, and author of Awakened, a powerful exploration of the science, history, and lived experience of myalgic encephalomyelitis (ME).</p><p>Together, we discuss Awakened and the realities of living with a misunderstood illness, tracing the history of ME, the impact of medical and societal neglect, and the growing movement towards scientific recognition and change.</p><p>For people living with ME and Long COVID, these stories are deeply personal. This conversation explores what it means to be heard, believed, and represented...

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