
Conversations and recordings about consent, pleasure, blind identity, parenting, and accessible education. Choose a topic to find something to listen to.
Consent, dating, and autonomy
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Consent and relationships · Outside production
Safety in Dating
Guests: Anneliese Knop and Laura Millar, one of BSAN’s cofounders · Host: Kim Wardlow
Dating, consent, boundaries, internalized ableism, and making room for both connection and autonomy in blind people’s lives.
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Navigating Life with Vision Loss · Episode S209 · Aftersight
October 28, 2025 · About 46 minutes · Audio; publisher video also available
Consent and boundaries · Outside production
Hands On Safety: “Do You Consent?”
Guests: Laura Millar and Bobbi Pompey, BSAN cofounders · Hosts: Leslie Dickson, George Freeman, and Meaghan Hargrave
Consent and boundaries in relationships and everyday interactions, discussed in the context of the blind community.
Content note: Includes discussion of sexual abuse and harassment.
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Hands On Safety · SafetyCast 10
February 7, 2021 · Audio
Autonomy and ableism · Outside production
Beyond Disability Etiquette
Guests: Laura Millar and Bobbi Pompey, BSAN cofounders · Host and producer: Eddie Ytuarte
A conversation about assumptions, unwanted assistance, stereotypes, and power that moves beyond manners toward autonomy.
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Pushing Limits · KPFA
April 23, 2021 · About 30 minutes · Audio and download
Pleasure and sexual health
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Sexuality and access · Outside production
Let’s Talk About (Blind) Sex
Guest: Laura Millar, BSAN cofounder · Host: Marissa
A blind sex educator’s perspective on sexuality, sexual health, and access.
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Blonde and Blind
March 16, 2025 · Audio · Adults 18+
Blind-led podcast · Host and producer: Thomas Reid · Adults 18+
Flipping the Script on Audio Description: Blind Grown & Sexy
A blind-led conversation about describing sexual content, pleasure, infantilization, and consent, with Pratik Patel, Bojana Coklyat, Shannon Finnegan, and Danielle Montour.
Content note: Explicit sexual language, sexual scenes, and discussion of adult media. For adults 18 and older.
Listen or read the transcript on Reid My Mind.
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Pleasure and intimacy · Outside production
The Blind Sexpert
Guest: Laura Millar, one of BSAN’s cofounders · Produced by KinkyCast
Blindness, desire, intimacy, and sexual-health research, including challenging shame around disability and sexuality.
Content note: Adult sexual discussion. The KinkyCast website includes explicit adult material.
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KinkyCast · Episode 391
July 23, 2021 · About 25 minutes · Audio · Adults 18+
Recording currently unavailable. The original archive and alternative listening page could not be verified as playable. We are keeping the episode information here while looking for a working recording.
Blind identity and everyday life
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Blind identity and confidence · Outside production
A Conversation With Jim Barbour
Guest: Jim Barbour · Hosts: Jeff Thompson and Pete Lane
Jim discusses blindness, confidence, education, work, and self-advocacy. A conversation about blind identity and self-advocacy.
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Blind Abilities
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Blind experience and everyday safety · Outside production
Our Personal Truths
Guests: Jim Barbour and Chad Bouton · Hosts: Leslie Dickson, George Freeman, and Meaghan Hargrave
Blind guests share experiences of traveling and everyday life, bringing lived experience to a conversation about safety.
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Hands On Safety · SafetyCast 26
October 1, 2022 · Audio
Confidence and community · Outside production
The Blind Grind Is Live!
Guests: Lisamaria Martinez and Serena Olsen · Host: Jeff Thompson
A lively conversation about confidence coaching, friendship, blind identity, and sharing everyday experience through The Blind Grind.
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Blind Abilities
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Parenting, puberty, and body knowledge
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Blind parenting · Outside production
Blind Parents
Guests: Lisamaria Martinez and Stacie Leap · Hosts: Melissa and Anil
Blind parents discuss alternative techniques, practical tips, and parenting experience. For blind parents and people considering parenthood.
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Nation’s Blind Podcast · National Federation of the Blind
January 28, 2025 · Audio
Outside podcast · Host: Blind Beginnings
Limitless Podcast, Episode 219: Sexual Health and Education
Shawn speaks with Keisha and Ellis about barriers in sex education, learning about bodies and relationships, and practical advice for blind and low-vision young people and the adults who support them. The episode challenges the assumption that disabled people are not sexual.
Content note: The host flags mature themes.
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Outside radio and podcast · Host: Vision Australia Radio
Nothing’s Off Limits: Personal Care
Occupational therapist Amy Matthews and blind author Emma-Mae Schmidt discuss practical period care and why visual puberty resources can leave blind young people without the information they need.
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Education and disability justice
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Disability justice and public health · Recorded lecture
What Public Health Can Learn from Disability Justice
Speaker: Laura Millar, one of BSAN’s cofounders · Guest lecture for Indiana University
A blind public health professional connects lived experience, ableism, access, and autonomy with the ways we teach and provide services.
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Published September 26, 2026 · Video recording and accompanying written article · Free
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NFB convention presentation · Speaker: Mika Baugh
Sexual Health Education and Research: A Community-Centered Approach Driven by the Blind
Mika Baugh presents on community-centered sexual-health education and research led by blind people. The NFB archive lists audio, video, and a web transcript. The February 2026 Braille Monitor issue includes a related written version by Baugh.
Find the audio and video in the NFB convention archive.
Read Mika Baugh’s related article in the February 2026 Braille Monitor.
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CROSS-DISABILITY CONVERSATION · OUTSIDE PODCAST
Disability Visibility Podcast, Episode 39: Sex Education
Disabled adults, parents, educators, and providers · Audio with Google Doc and PDF transcripts · Free
A conversation about inclusive sex education, bodily autonomy, pleasure, and disabled people’s right to sexual expression. Addresses disability broadly.
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