Only Human Radio

Only Human Radio is disability-led community radio where arts coverage and disability justice are inseparable. The show listens closely to how creative work is made, funded, staged, described, and shared. Recent episodes center artists speaking from lived experience rather than from a detached panel format. It is warm. It is also blunt about access. Naavikaran’s Mystiq tour episodes trace the reality behind a self-funded tour: venue booking, travel, marketing, community support, and the cost of making live performance reachable for disabled audiences. The conversation does not flatten access into a checklist. Wheelchair-accessible venues, free Bandcamp listening, neurodivergent preparation, loud sound, Auslan interpretation, and audio description all appear as practical choices shaped by money and industry barriers. The show also makes room for joy. Queer fashion becomes “Op Shop Bougie,” a framework for borrowing, thrifting, styling, and self-determination. Music becomes multilingual, political, communal, and hard-won. In the episode on the disability-led short film Human, Sam connects fiction to loneliness, neglect, slow violence, and the damage caused by forced hyper-independence. Another conversation with Danika recalls pandemic isolation and the odd moment when friends began to understand routines disabled people had already been living with. These moments are specific and conversational. The pacing often follows real thought: a guest corrects a word, finds the sharper phrase, then keeps going. That makes the politics feel lived rather than packaged. Only Human Radio suits listeners interested in disability arts, queer culture, access labor, community care, and the structural reasons some artists are pushed to the margins. It is less about celebrity polish than about the conditions that let people make work and stay connected. The show’s strength is its refusal to separate art from bodies, budgets, venues, friendships, policy, and survival.