In this episode, I am going to do a brief discussion and wrap-up of our first season. I am also going to get a bit into the motivations for making a podcast like Contra* in the first place.

Now more than ever we need to be consciously (re)considering diverse forms of hospitalities and ways of being together. In these disconnected times marked by global crises, this edition of the Rehearsing Hospitalities Companion series turns towards questions of hospitality and access. Looking beyond normative and institutionalised understandings of access, this publication considers access from a manifold of approaches, perceptions and relations. With contributions from Camille Auer, Yvonne Billimore, Annet Dekker, Denise Ferreira da Silva, Aimi Hamraie, Hanna Helander, Jussi Koitela, Ali Akbar Mehta, Astrida Neimanis, Marietta Radomska, Marianne Savallampi, Laura Soisalon-Soininen, Minna Tarkka, and Touko Vaahtera. Rehearsing Hospitalities Companion ...

Aimi speaks with Dr. Arrianna Planey about COVID-19, health disparities, and critical health analysis.

Aimi speaks to Embry Wood Owen about disabled mutual aid organizing and the politics of public space during COVID-19.

Aimi talks to Alice Wong about ableism, disability culture, and COVID-19.

Aimi speaks to Dr. Jay Dolmage about disability, eugenics, and COVID-19.

Aimi speaks to Dr. Michelle Murphy about eugenics and the economization of life in the time of COVID-19.

Aimi speaks to Ayah Nirrudin about eugenics, anti-Blackness, and COVID-19.

Aimi talks to Sulaiman Khan of This Ability about ableism and COVID-19.

Aimi talks to Jay Salazar of the Disability Justice Culture Club about disability and mutual aid organizing.

Aimi talks to Dasom Nah of the Disability Justice Culture Club about disability and mutual aid organizing.

Aimi speaks to Dr. Max Liboiron about administrative activism and the legacies of disabled and Indigenous mutual aid.