Bonus: Disability Humor & Creating in Community with Steven Verdile
Julia discusses disability, comedy, creativity, and treating people like people with Steven Verdile, the founder of the disability satire publication The Squeaky Wheel.
Bonus: Julia Wrote a Thesis – Online Autistic Community and Finding Your Writer Voice
Victoria interviews Julia about her master’s thesis in Anthropology on Autistic social groups, disabled futures, and how to make Autistic friends by exchanging fun facts.
113 Ten Steps to Nanette by Hannah Gadsby — A Wizard of Form
Julia and Victoria talk about the marriage of message and form in the “memoir situation” by one of their favorite human beings: 10 Steps to Nanette by Australian comedian Hannah Gadsby.
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