Society & Culture
Raven Talks to LaKisha and Terrin from the Babies Down Bottles Up podcast about misconceptions surrounding disabled people’s reproductive and parental rights, and how disabled women are impacted by societal expectations regarding womanhood and motherhood.
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Discussion Summary
0:44: Episode begins, LaKisha and Terrin introduce themselves.
01:58: What inspired this conversation, and misconceptions about the capabilities of disabled women.
07:08: The difference in reactions to disabled women and nondisabled women announcing they’re pregnant, and the assumption that disabled women can’t independently care for their children.
09:44: The concern that children of disabled parents experience parentification.
15:03: How stereotypes and judgmental family members influence requests for assistance with ordinary tasks.
20:18: Britney Spears conservatorship, how there are many disabled people with similar stories, and the belief that disabled women shouldn’t reproduce and can’t parent.
25:13: The common occurrence of disabled parents being reported to Child Protective Services by medical professionals, how this creates a fear of medical professionals in disabled parents, and disabled parents aren’t afforded the same room for error granted to nondisabled parents.
36:05: Viewing self-advocacy from marginalized people as irrational or oppositional.
40:18: How the American eugenics movement popularized the legal and medical oppression of disabled people, and problems with decisions and laws being made about disabled people without input from the disabled community.
47:28: Motherhood isn’t easily granted to disabled women, and the thought that motherhood is the ideal form of womanhood and femininity.
51-56: Facing infantilization from medical professionals.
54:30: How to work against misconceptions about the abilities of disabled parents.
60:04: Thank you to LaKisha and Terrin from the Babies Down Bottles Up podcast.
60:14: Outro.
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