New podcast aiming to reframe stammering

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Disorderly Voices, a new podcast by Stuttering Commons, explores writing, scholarship and art that challenge and transform how we understand stammering.

"The way we think about and imagine stammering in society shapes the opportunities and possibilities available to people who stammer," says podcast hosts Patrick Campbell and Maria Stuart from Stuttering Commons. "Disorderly Voices aims to complicate and expand empowering perspectives of stammering, highlighting what embracing dysfluency can bring to our society."

Over seven episodes, Patrick and Maria host lively and humorous conversations with stammering academics, therapists, artists and activists, asking them to reflect on their work and its impact.

In its first episode, Joshua St Pierre discussed his 2012 article 'The Construction of the Disabled Speaker', which frames stammering as a shared process between the speaker and the world around them, and laid the groundwork for the Stammering Pride movement.