Disability talk after the polite version ends.
Disability After Dark pairs intimate disability conversation with blunt, body-literate talk about pleasure, access, and shame. Episodes often start with hosted framing before moving into guest-led stories about chronic illness, queer embodiment, creative work, sex work, grief, and media representation.
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Disability After Dark is an interview show about disabled life after the polite questions run out. It is frank. It is also warm, chatty, and emotionally close, with openings that often spend time on framing, sponsorships, and the personal reasons an episode matters before the guest conversation fully takes over. Recent episodes show the range clearly. One conversation looks at Long COVID, gray grief, and living with uncertainty. Another follows the overlap between trans and disabled bodies in porn, asking how disgust, desirability, and representation get assigned by culture. Other episodes move through facial difference, chronic illness, disability identity, service dogs, sex education, paid intimacy, creative burnout, and the need for more sustainable ways for disabled creators to be seen. The show is comfortable talking about bodies. It is comfortable talking about sex. It is just as comfortable pausing on care, loneliness, uncertainty, and the strange relief of finding people who understand. The interviews do not feel clinically packaged; they move like conversations between people who can joke, lose the thread, recover it, and still land somewhere honest. That looseness is part of the appeal. Disability After Dark makes room for contradiction: pleasure and grief, access and desire, independence and support, humor and pain. It often centers queer and trans perspectives without turning them into a lesson. It also treats adult intimacy as part of access, not a side issue or a scandal. The result is a show for listeners who want disability culture discussed with clarity, mess, and feeling. It can be explicit in subject matter, but its deeper project is simple: disabled people are not side characters in their own bodies.
Made for: For listeners interested in disability culture, queer embodiment, sex-positive access, chronic illness, care, and representation. It especially suits people who want intimate interviews that can be funny, blunt, and emotionally serious in the same conversation.
What sets it apart: The show connects disability, desire, care, and media representation without separating body talk from emotional life. Its hosted, conversational texture makes heavy topics feel personal instead of clinical.
This is a podcast that looks at disability stories. it's like sitting down with a really close friend to have real conversations about disability, sexuality and everything else about the disability experience that we don't talk about; the things about being disabled we keep in the dark. The show is hosted by Disability Awareness Consultant Andrew Gurza.
Based on 5 episodes we listened to · September 2026
Andrew Gurza connects disability, care, sexuality, and access through candid conversations grounded in the practical details of daily life.
Disability After Dark follows Andrew Gurza into candid guest conversations where disability is considered at the scale of the body, relationships, care, and the built environment.
Bathroom access crashes the "just drink water" lecture, and suddenly your wellness advice needs a wheelchair ramp.
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A blunt conversation turns revulsion, deception, and desire into the episode's core questions.
Disability After Dark centers how trans and disabled identity can be read in public life, and Andrew Gurza handles the material with his familiar, intimate plainness.
A loose, humane conversation about naming disability and pushing back on horror-movie shorthand around facial difference.
Andrew begins with sponsor reads before turning to his stated interest in disabled creatives and, from there, to the language used around disability, chronic condition, and chronic illness.
A frank, grounded conversation about pleasure, companionship, sex work, and intimacy without a required ending.
Sex, care, and disability meet in a candid conversation that treats pleasure as something shaped by vulnerability, consent, and the right to define intimacy on personal terms.
A grounded look at severe disability, hospital life, and the practical work of preserving autonomy.
Disability After Dark frames autonomy through one guest's move from living independently into long-term hospital care. The episode finds its force in concrete moments: Briere allowing him to leave after non-liability agreements, a doctor arguing that he should be able to keep…
A frank disability conversation shows why bathroom access has to be part of health advice.
Disability After Dark settles into a plainspoken conversation about bowel care, bathroom access, and the daily logistics that often get left out of disability health advice.
Practical access, lived experience, real independence.
Live rooms where accessibility work happens.
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Host Andrew Gurza interviews Hollis Pierce, host of the 21st Century Disability Podcast, about his life with congenital muscular dystrophy.
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In E432 of Disability After Dark, Andrew Gurza reviews adventurous date ideas including amusement parks, random-map travel, sunrise outings, mud sliding, and spelunking through the lens of disability access.
Alfonso Reyes, a 26-year-old content creator from Fresno, California, describes living with Duchenne muscular dystrophy and needing “24-7 care, 365 days a year.” He explains how his parents assist with dressing, restroom use, equipment setup, and other daily tasks while he considers whether independent living and a reliable care team are possible.
This episode introduces sponsors and discusses inclusive sex toys and anal pleasure education, but does not reach the main conversation indicated by the title.
This episode discusses the overlap in lack of representation of trans and disabled bodies in pornography with guest Stevie Trixx, while promoting inclusive sex products.
This episode explores the challenges of living with Long COVID and gray grief through an interview with Marisa Renee Lee, while also highlighting resources for disabled creatives struggling with content creation.
This episode features a sponsor segment for B-Vibe anal pleasure products followed by host Andrew introducing his focus on highlighting disabled creatives and interviews.
Andrew Gurza opens with sponsor reads from Come As You Are and Wimble.
Andrew opens with sponsor reads and a quick frame for why he likes spotlighting disabled creatives.
Disability After Dark host Andrew Gerza interviews Tim Lagman, a certified sex educator, sex worker, pole-dance instructor, circus artist, and host of Sex Ed with Tim about sex and disability.
This bonus episode celebrates International Day of Persons with Disabilities and features host Andrew Gurza discussing a collaboration with the Sex Ed with DB podcast on an episode about sex and disability.
This episode features an interview with Jose Rosario discussing the challenges and experiences of providing mental health care while living with a disability.
This episode features an interview with a disabled icon discussing disability stories, personal care, and sexuality with explicit content warnings.
This episode introduces Whimble, an on-demand personal care assistance platform for people with disabilities, featuring founder Emma Brown.
This episode of Disability After Dark, hosted by Andrew Gerza, features a conversation with Tiffany Yu about the Anti-Ableist Manifesto, exploring disability stories, sexuality, and the disability experience during Cerebral Palsy Awareness Month.