Sabrina Epstein
Sabrina Epstein (she/her/hers) is a disabled public health professional in Los Angeles, California. Her disability experience informs her policy expertise and her art practice. In her free time, she enjoys gluten-free baking and playing with her dog, Nandor.
Twitter: @SabrinaTessEp
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SPEAKERS
Molly Joyce, Sabrina Epstein
Molly Joyce 00:03
What is access for you?
Sabrina Epstein 00:06
Access is being able to interact with the world in a meaningful way that meets my needs.
Molly Joyce 00:20
What is care to you?
Sabrina Epstein 00:24
providing support? Which can mean physical, emotional or anything like that and like being cognizant of access needs.
Molly Joyce 00:41
What is control for you?
Sabrina Epstein 00:44
Something I don't have. Yeah, I feel like disability takes away control and a lot of ways so. But just being able to plan for what the next day is going to look like, or what the future is going to look like.
Molly Joyce 01:04
What is weakness to you?
Sabrina Epstein 01:10
That's hard. It's just like the lack of willingness to try things. So don't put yourself out there. Or like a lack of willingness to, like be true to yourself.
Molly Joyce 01:35
Like I say to you can always skip a question to answer. What is strength for you?
Sabrina Epstein 01:47
I think for me, I've had to really redefine it for myself and know that it doesn't always mean pushing and keeping go to keep going when my body doesn't want to like sometimes it means being strong enough to listen to your body over the pressures of society will conform to whatever standards they set that aren't made for my disabled body.
Molly Joyce 02:21
What is cure to?
Sabrina Epstein 02:29
Something that I'm allowed to say that I want, but I don't want the world to force upon me.
Molly Joyce 02:40
What is interdependence for you?
Sabrina Epstein 02:44
Everything? I mean, it's like saying fuck it to the capitalist ideals of independence and realizing that we all have our care networks. And we all need them, even if it looks like different things.
Molly Joyce 03:05
And last one, what is assumption to you?
Sabrina Epstein 03:12
Just projecting everything society's set tells us to think about people on to them without taking the time to examine whether those things have any truth or value to them.
Molly Joyce 03:30
Thank you.