Episode 66: Disabled single mums being badass advocates! Also, Erin Brockovich (with Sarah Langston)

TRANSCRIPT HERE

 

Today we sit down with Sarah Langston, disabled single mum, artist, and disability advocate, and learn a bucketload about the barriers facing neurodivergent parents, particularly mothers, and how Sarah supports those parents. Sarah dives deep into the child protection system and how often disability is equated with parenting risk, leading to reporting rather than supporting neurodivergent parents. And then we relate this somehow to the 2000 legal drama Erin Brockovich? WELL YES, as you'll soon discover!

 

CONTENT WARNING: child protection, child abuse (including sexual abuse), and child removal, statistics around death, ableism.

 

FOLLOW SARAH ON ALL THE THINGS:

• TO JOIN ANPA (Australian Neurodivergent Parents Association) email Sarah with your name and contact number to sarahritalangston@gmail.com
• Check out Sarah's website for her advocacy, art and writing here
• Follow Sarah on instagram @srita_studio
• Follow Sarah on LinkedIn here
• See Sarah's art at Saatchi Art here

FOLLOW US:

Follow Psychocinematic on Instagram,  Twitter and Tiktok! or join our Facebook Group! Email us at psychocinematicpodcast@gmail.com. Join our PATREON to support us and get cute benefits and bonus content! And check out our WEBSITE!

 

ALL PATREON FEES will be matched and sent to AUSRELIEF for their humanitarian relief in Gaza, until the end of the year. Sign up NOW or Donate Directly at our fundraiser link. 

 

REFERENCES

• sarah langston
• Disability Advocacy Network Australia
• Parents with disability and their experiences of child protection systems
• Autistic women submission to UN Special Rapporteur on Violence against Women | Autism Aspergers Advocacy Australia
• A fair and accessible criminal justice system for autistic people. Submission to the Parliamentary Inquiry into Victoria’s Criminal Justice System.
• Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (CRPD) | Division for Inclusive Social Development (DISD)
• Erin Brockovich - Wikipedia
• Miranda Fricker On testimony and the power of words

NOTE: This podcast is not designed to be therapeutic, prescriptive or constitute a formal diagnosis for any listener, nor the characters discussed. The host is not representative of all psychologists and opinions stated are her own personal opinion, based on her own learnings and training (and minimal lived experience). Host and co-hosts do not have the final say and can only comment based on their own perspectives, so please let us know if you dispute any of these opinions – we are keen for feedback!