"The Wheelchair-to-Warfare Pipeline" w/ Liz Jackson and Rua Williams

April 30
57 mins

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This episode was originally released April 11, 2024 and is being re-aired today. To support the show and help make episodes like this one possible, become a patron at https://www.patreon.com/deathpanelpod

Beatrice speaks with Liz Jackson and Rua Williams about the history and ongoing practice of design objects ostensibly created for accessibility being repurposed into tools of war.

Transcript:
https://www.deathpanel.net/transcripts/wheelchair-to-warfare

Read their article in the New Republic, “How Disabled People Get Exploited to Build the Technology of War,” here:
https://newrepublic.com/article/179391/wheelchair-warfare-pipeline-disability-technology

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