Episode 42 of Contra*
Feb. 19, 2026
Occasionally and unpredictably, the Full Speed AHEAD podcast will take the scenic route to introduce listeners to another podcast about disability. This month features an episode of
Contra* with
Thomas Reid, who chats with host Kelsie Acton about the promise of sound, audio description and race, and reimagining audio description to leverage the expertise of Blind people.
Many thanks to JPED author and Full Speed AHEAD guest, Julia Karpicz (episode 4), for recommending Contra*!
Featured resources
Critical Design Lab
Reid My Mind Radio, a podcast developed and hosted by Thomas Reid
Contra* is produced by the Critical Design Lab and is shared under a Creative Commons attribution, non-commercial, share alike international 3.0 license.
Episode 4: “Disabled, Racially Minoritized, and Invisible”: The Intersectionality of Race and Disability in Higher Education: A Conversation with Co-editors
(41 mins)
Resources
With Daniel Blake, Assistant Professor of Higher Education in the Dept. of Educational Policy Studies at Georgia State University; Julia Karpicz, Associate Director of Student Accessibility Services at Worcester State University; Kat Stephens-Peace, Assistant Professor of Higher Education in the Dept. of Educational Leadership at Ball State University; and Gabriel Rodriguez Lemus, a doctoral candidate in Higher Education Leadership at the University of Texas Austin.
Episode 3: Disability Services in Higher Education: An Insider’s Conversation (26m38s)
Resources
With Kirsten Behling, Associate Dean of Student Accessibility and Academic Resources at Tufts University, and Andrew Cioffi, Director of Disability Resources at Suffolk University.
Featured: Behling, K., Bellemore, E., Bibeau, L., Cioffi, A., and McNamee, B. (2023). Disability Services in Higher Education: An Insider’s Guide. Temple University Press. 356 pp.
Episode 2: The New Accessibility: Disrupting the System for an Inclusive Future (29m10s)
Resources
With guests Katherine Aquino and Adam Lalor, Editors of The New Accessibility in Higher Education: Disrupting the System for An Inclusive Future. Oxford University Press, 2025. 464 pp.
Episode 1: Allyship and Building Alliances (19m42s)
Resources
With Dr. Joan Ostrove, Director of the Jan Serie Center for Scholarship and Teaching and professor of Psychology at Macalester College
Featured: Ostrove, J. Kornfeld, M. and Ibrahim, M. (2019). Actors against Ableism? Qualities of Nondisabled Allies from the Perspective of People with Physical Disabilities. Journal of Social Psychology, 75(3). 924-42.