Whether it’s being shamed by your appliance or corrupting the data stream (check out Part One for more on all this if you haven’t yet), it’s all in his own words with blind/gay writer, (lover of chocolate and chocolate chip cookies) who writes romance fiction with disabled protagonists and non-fiction celebrating every bit of love and found family he can find. It’s Robert Kingett on Part Two of our pre-holiday 2025 show.
This week on Outlook we’re returning with Robert and some holiday cheer with musical clips from Ontario family fiddling and step dancing sibling band The Fitzgeralds.
This one begins with a clip from sister/co-host Kerry's favourite Christmas song, sung in multiple versions including by Raffi, from her childhood:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8WvBFwEu710
Kingett says: “If Apple released a software update that made every screen black and nobody could see the screen then you’d have an uproar. The same thing needs to happen to accessibility and accessible design."
Robert tells us about screen readers tech bros think can be created using AI instead of accessibility being a cornerstone on the syllabi in higher education environments of all kinds, about venting on the blank page/document about doorknobs, and about voicemails that hold the voice of a dear friend who was killed in a hate crime and keeping audio as memory artefact like sighted people keep pictures on their phones to be able to look back.
Our chat in this second, slightly shorter, part picks up with a discussion on AI and the spots it comes up in our guest’s writing and life and ends, in the spirit of the season, with a heartfelt voicemail message…wrapping things up with a third grader’s letter to Santa.
We’re hearing more from Kingett’s perspective, along with a selection of his essays, turned into audio essays narrated by Sean Crisden who you can find here:
https://seancrisden.com/en-cad
Don’t forget to go and check out Robert’s musings, perspectives begun with a feeling rather than sharing endless opinions over on social media, over on his own personal blog:
https://sightlessscribbles.com
Learn more about The Fitzgeralds:
https://www.thefitzgeraldsmusic.com
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Whether it’s being shamed by your appliance or corrupting the data stream (check out Part One for more on all this if you haven’t yet), it’s all in his own words with blind/gay writer, (lover of chocolate and chocolate chip cookies) who writes romance fiction with disabled protagonists and non-fiction celebrating every bit of love and found family he can find. It’s Robert Kingett on Part Two of our pre-holiday 2025 show.
This week on Outlook we’re returning with Robert and some holiday cheer with musical clips from Ontario family fiddling and step dancing sibling band The Fitzgeralds.
This one begins with a clip from sister/co-host Kerry's favourite Christmas song, sung in multiple versions including by Raffi, from her childhood:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8WvBFwEu710
Kingett says: “If Apple released a software update that made every screen black and nobody could see the screen then you’d have an uproar. The same thing needs to happen to accessibility and accessible design."
Robert tells us about screen readers tech bros think can be created using AI instead of accessibility being a cornerstone on the syllabi in higher education environments of all kinds, about venting on the blank page/document about doorknobs, and about voicemails that hold the voice of a dear friend who was killed in a hate crime and keeping audio as memory artefact like sighted people keep pictures on their phones to be able to look back.
Our chat in this second, slightly shorter, part picks up with a discussion on AI and the spots it comes up in our guest’s writing and life and ends, in the spirit of the season, with a heartfelt voicemail message…wrapping things up with a third grader’s letter to Santa.
We’re hearing more from Kingett’s perspective, along with a selection of his essays, turned into audio essays narrated by Sean Crisden who you can find here:
https://seancrisden.com/en-cad
Don’t forget to go and check out Robert’s musings, perspectives begun with a feeling rather than sharing endless opinions over on social media, over on his own personal blog:
https://sightlessscribbles.com
Learn more about The Fitzgeralds:
https://www.thefitzgeraldsmusic.com
Outlook 2025-07-07 - Summer of Pride Heating Up, Early July Mixed Bag Monday
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Outlook 2025-07-07 - Summer of Pride Heating Up, Early July Mixed Bag Monday
“We will carve our place into time and space.”
—Wild Things, Alessia Cara
It’s powerful outcry, a protest and empowerment song by Alessia, as sister/co-host Kerry loves music that’s unapologetic - Things are heating up during July’s Disability Pride Month (DPM).
This week on Outlook we’re continuing the Pride talk on another mixed bag with brother/co-host Brian’s baseball adventures, reading image descriptions of the stadium, and then Kerry shares about her memories of seeing the Toronto Bluejay’s Sky Dome (roof open and sky exposed or closed).
Accessibility - how he and BF Barry asked at Guest Services for accessible ways to follow the game and a giant company like Rogers doing very little even with all their resources.
Advocacy - summer being a time people love to attend festivals and a recent CBC London Morning segment speaking with an accessibility consultant in a wheelchair about how to make something like London’s Sunfest more inclusive.
And equality - describing the colours of the Disability Pride Flag as July’s DPM continues.
While Kerry and guide dog Oyster recently had a girl’s day, watching Friends, sleeping on the couch, and going out in the back yard for which Kerry is writing an essay about in a July writing class: Oyster’s Secret Garden, Brian and Barry had a good time out socialising in London and spending a lot of time on patios and at local spots across town. He shares about transportation issues and talking with Uber drivers, and. Kerry shares, while describing the need for colours and vivid imagery on a flag like that of DPM along with the grief she’s now receiving peer support for when she misses seeing the colours she has always loved and once could make out.
When Kerry was in Ireland and went forest bathing, she was encouraged to take her power back and she finds that works better through song lyrics than through cursing. It’s a summer of Pride, a lifetime of advocacy, and demanding equality along the way with cross-community support so be one of the Wild Ones:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g5vUBQBykJ4
Outlook on Radio Western
Whether it’s being shamed by your appliance or corrupting the data stream (check out Part One for more on all this if you haven’t yet), it’s all in his own words with blind/gay writer, (lover of chocolate and chocolate chip cookies) who writes romance fiction with disabled protagonists and non-fiction celebrating every bit of love and found family he can find. It’s Robert Kingett on Part Two of our pre-holiday 2025 show.
This week on Outlook we’re returning with Robert and some holiday cheer with musical clips from Ontario family fiddling and step dancing sibling band The Fitzgeralds.
This one begins with a clip from sister/co-host Kerry's favourite Christmas song, sung in multiple versions including by Raffi, from her childhood:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8WvBFwEu710
Kingett says: “If Apple released a software update that made every screen black and nobody could see the screen then you’d have an uproar. The same thing needs to happen to accessibility and accessible design."
Robert tells us about screen readers tech bros think can be created using AI instead of accessibility being a cornerstone on the syllabi in higher education environments of all kinds, about venting on the blank page/document about doorknobs, and about voicemails that hold the voice of a dear friend who was killed in a hate crime and keeping audio as memory artefact like sighted people keep pictures on their phones to be able to look back.
Our chat in this second, slightly shorter, part picks up with a discussion on AI and the spots it comes up in our guest’s writing and life and ends, in the spirit of the season, with a heartfelt voicemail message…wrapping things up with a third grader’s letter to Santa.
We’re hearing more from Kingett’s perspective, along with a selection of his essays, turned into audio essays narrated by Sean Crisden who you can find here:
https://seancrisden.com/en-cad
Don’t forget to go and check out Robert’s musings, perspectives begun with a feeling rather than sharing endless opinions over on social media, over on his own personal blog:
https://sightlessscribbles.com
Learn more about The Fitzgeralds:
https://www.thefitzgeraldsmusic.com
