After growing up queer with a complicated father in the 1960s, a man forges his own path, identity and career in the arts, but suddenly, after a routine surgery, he wakes up unable to move.
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Today’s episode featured John Killacky. You can find out more about John by going to johnkillacky.com with links to his book, “because art: commentary, critique, & conversation” as well as links to some of his films.
"I was so used to being adaptive, resilient, always seeing the horizon ahead....The complexity for me in that hospital is that there wasn’t a horizon. I was so stuck in the now of nothing."
Content/Trigger Warnings: graphic medical descriptions, paralysis, suicidal ideation, explicit language
Producer: Whit Missildine, Andrew Waits
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Intro Music: "Illabye" – Tipper
Music Bed: “Union Flow" - Spuntic
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