Brazenly Blind: Lachi on Disability Culture, Language, and Structural Change

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Episode title and number: Brazenly Blind: Lachi on Disability Culture, Language, and Structural Change 6-#2

Summary of the show:
Disability advocate and recording artist Lachi joins Bold Blind Beauty On AIR to discuss disability identity, blind culture, accessibility in the music industry, and the power of claiming the word disabled. In this powerful conversation, Lachi, Steph, Gabby, and Sylvia explore aging into disability, dismantle euphemisms, the vibrancy of disability culture, and how style, storytelling, and initiatives like Ramped and Glam Canes are reshaping access and representation in the music industry.

Key topics & timestamps:
00:00 – Welcome & Episode Overview​
03:00 – Lachi’s Story & Audiobook Voice​
07:30 – “Just Say the Word Disability”​
15:30 – Aging into Disability​
20:30 – Identity, Community & Connection​
27:15 – Disability Culture in Full Color​
31:00 – I Identify as Blind & Ramped​
41:00 – Glam Canes & Changing Entertainment
47:00 – Inviting Listeners to Claim Disability Identity
49:00 – Where to Find Lachi and Closing Reflections
1:02:03 – Closing Reflections

Lachi's Full Bio:
Lachi is a world-touring recording artist, award-winning music executive, Disability Culture champion, Recording Academy National Trustee, and producer of a GRAMMY-Nominated album. Born legally blind, Lachi created the U.N.-recognized organization RAMPD (Recording Artists and Music Professionals with Disabilities), a consultancy group, collaborating on disability-inclusive solutions with the likes of Netflix, Live Nation, and more, while bringing opportunities to its growing global network of creative professionals with disabilities. Lachi is also the host of PBS American Masters series Renegades, which celebrates unsung American heroes with disabilities. Lachi's latest book, I Identify as Blind (Penguin Random House / Tiny Reparations Books), is a collection of essays using humor, straight talk, and celebrity interviews to celebrate and amplify Disability Culture, identity, and power to mainstream discussion.

Named a USA Today Woman of the Year, an ADCOLOR Innovator and included on both the 2025 Billboard Pride and 2025 Forbes Accessibility 100 lists, Lachi’s cultural activism has landed her spots on national ads and TEDx stages, discussions with the White House, NPR, and the BBC, and features in People, TIME Magazine, Good Morning America and the New York Times.

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Music Credit: "Ambient Uplifting Harmonic Happy" By Panda-x-music https://audiojungle.net/item/ambient-uplifting-harmonic-happy/46309958

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