On Being Ill

• Listening to the Bees with Jenna Butler

  How might one begin to transform a remote bush quarter in Northern Alberta into an off-grid organic farm and artist residency? Can citizen science help us keep track of ecological change? And why oh why must we listen to the bees? In this episode, Emilia sits down to discuss these questions and more with writer, farmer, and environmentalist, Dr. Jenna Butler. You can find Jenna’s work at JennaButler.com and you can check out what Larch Grove is up to at LarchGroveFarm.com.You can contact us at [email protected]. We’d love to hear from you!Click ⁠here⁠ for a full transcription of this episode.

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• Redefining Accessibility with Anna Veprinska

  What role does noise pollution play on our embodied health and the health of the planet? How can the seemingly small act of writing poetry connect us to the biggest historical and contemporary issues? Does pain have a number? And if not, why are we still using pain scales? In this episode, Emilia sits down to discuss these questions and more with poet and scholar, Dr. Anna Veprinska. You can follow Anna on X and instagram @SplitEndedPoemYou can contact us at [email protected]. We’d love to hear from you!Click ⁠here⁠ for a full transcription of this episode.

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• Deconstructing Fluency Privilege with Joshua St. Pierre

  How does the logic of speech pathology affect stutterers and non-stutterers alike? Can we deconstruct, unsettle, and bend fluency privilege in favour of embracing vocal difference? And how might one go about designing an interactive knowledge platform with this goal in mind? In this episode, Emilia sits down to discuss these questions and more with writer, professor, and Canada Research Chair in Critical Disability Studies, Dr. Joshua St. Pierre.You can find Joshua’s work at JoshuaStPierre.com and you can check out The Stuttering Commons at StutteringCommons.org.You can contact us at [email protected]. We’d love to hear from you!Click ⁠here⁠ for a full transcription of this episode.

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• Season 5 Trailer

  We're back for season five of On Being Ill. This time, we sat down with three writers who ask: what might be gained, for stutterers and non-stutterers alike, by interrogating fluency privilege? Can numbers or words ever really convey the feeling of pain? And what might we hear if we stop to listen to the bees? Tune in this April, wherever you listen to podcasts, to hear those conversations in full. And check out our brand new project: CreativeEntanglementCollaboratory.ca where you’ll find this podcast and much more.

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• Cultivating Economies of Care with Angele Alook

  What projects might you find in the research portfolio of an Indigenous feminist sociologist with a penchant for labour studies? Is it possible for a 6-person team to co-author a truly cohesive book on climate change? And how do we go about restoring balance in a world based in greed and excess? In this episode, Emilia sits down to discuss these questions and more with Dr. Angele Alook, a multidisciplinary scholar and filmmaker whose recent documentary, Pîkopayin, explores the impact of industry on her home community of Big Stone Cree Nation. You can watch Angele’s film Pîkopayin at JustPowers.ca. And you can find her book, The End of This World at BTLBooks.com.  You can contact us at [email protected]. We’d love to hear from you! Click ⁠here⁠ for a full transcription of this episode.

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