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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

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March 16, 2025 · Audio · Adults 18+

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Blind-led podcast · Host and producer: Thomas Reid · Adults 18+

Flipping the Script on Audio Description: Blind Grown & Sexy

Reid My Mind Radio · September 15, 2021 · Audio episode with a written transcript · Free

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.

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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.

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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

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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

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Outside podcast · Host: Blind Beginnings

Limitless Podcast, Episode 219: Sexual Health and Education

Published October 8, 2025 · Audio episode · Blind and low-vision young people, families, and educators

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

Published May 25, 2021 · Radio interview and podcast episode · Blind and low-vision people, families, and educators

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

Presented July 13, 2025 · Host: National Federation of the Blind · Blind adults, educators, researchers, and community organizers

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.

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CROSS-DISABILITY CONVERSATION · OUTSIDE PODCAST

Disability Visibility Podcast, Episode 39: Sex Education

Disability Visibility Project · Host Alice Wong; guests Julia Bascom and Robin Wilson-Beattie · December 3, 2018

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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