About You First: The Disability Rights Florida Podcast
Disability Deep Dive is a biweekly podcast hosted by Keith Casebonne and Jodi Beckstine, featuring interviews with people with disabilities, advocates, and experts discussing rights, access, and daily life. Additional segments include "The Reef," a short segment featuring additional disability community voices on one topic or idea, and "Deep Cut," a media recommendation that helps listeners explore disability-related themes.
Please note that the opinions of our guests are not necessarily those of Disability Rights Florida.
Watch the video version on YouTube: https://youtu.be/YqYCgBZfvyE
Jodi and Keith present a special Disability Deep Dive episode recorded live at the 28th Annual Family Cafe expo floor, featuring short interviews with Florida disability organizations and noting ambient convention noise. Lana Smith describes Pyramid's adult day training program (five Florida locations) focused on arts, performing arts, life skills, and community connection, correcting the "daycare" misconception. Dawn Moore and Cherie Hall explain Disability Rights Florida's outreach and common inquiries (education, healthcare access, Medicaid, APD), referral resources, transportation barriers, and ways to contact DRF. Katie Kaiser and Rachel Long discuss major issues (transportation, housing, accessibility), local groups, trainings, and how to connect via flsans.org and social media. Danielle West Lane outlines SSA's Go Digital campaign and My Social Security account functions and access. Aaron Victoria explains DRF's PAIMI program and mental health rights. Betty Cadet shares FIL's self-pay adult services. Ann-Marie Orlando explains UF CARD supports and how to register for assistance.
13 Aug 2026
Reid Davenport on "Life After" and the Fight Over Disabled Quality of Life
Watch the video version on YouTube: https://youtu.be/INRjvz4emc4
For our final episode of Season 3, we interview documentary filmmaker Reid Davenport about his film "Life After," which revisits the 1983 case of Elizabeth Bouvia to examine ongoing debates about assisted dying, autonomy, and systemic abandonment of disabled people. Reid explains he was drawn to tensions between nondisabled and disabled progressives and to how media framed Bouvia's desire to die as caused by disability while ignoring factors like divorce, miscarriage, discrimination, isolation, poverty, and inadequate healthcare. He argues bodily autonomy is shaped by surrounding conditions and that people need the right and support to live as they choose before the right to die. The discussion highlights medical and state ableism, misjudgments about disabled quality of life, the need to center disabled voices, and concerns illustrated in the film about assisted suicide access in Canada amid poor support and care.
Watch "Life After" on PBS Independent Lens: https://www.pbs.org/independentlens/documentaries/life-after/
"Life After" website: https://www.lifeafterfilm.com/
Reid Davenport's website: https://www.reiddavenport.com/
30 Jul 2026
Still Here: Disability Culture, Pride, and Fashion as Resistance with Meier Galblum Haigh
Watch the video version on YouTube: https://youtu.be/HHWS6KTKcTU
Keith and Jodi interview Meier Galblum Haigh, Executive Director of Disability Culture Lab, about the summer streetwear collection "We're Still Here: Fashion Against Fascism," shaped by conversations with more than 40 disabled people and a North Star visioning process exploring what "winning" and liberation look like. Meier explains Disability Culture Lab's mission to build disabled-led communications infrastructure because "bad stories lead to bad policy," and describes themes behind the collection—interdependence and care, disabled leadership and power, disabled joy, and the harms of oppressive systems—along with tensions around non-disabled parents driving harmful narratives. The Deep Cut segment reviews Netflix's "All the Light We Cannot See" through a disability lens, discussing authentic casting of blind/low-vision actors, shortcomings in character depth and historical context of Nazi violence against disabled people, the value of audio description, and the need for agency, complexity, access, and disabled involvement behind the camera.
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YouTube views
191,739
Score snapshot 15 Sept 2025
Apple Podcasts (US)
4.8 / 5
15 ratings
Spotify
5.0 / 5
11 ratings
Podcast Authority Score: 67 / 100
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Quality
65
Social presence
0
YouTube
86
Engagement
90
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Who hosts You First: The Disability Rights Florida Podcast?
Jodi Beckstine and Keith Casebonne host the show. Published by Disability Rights Florida.
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