Lead Artist and Producer
Meet the core team
Élaina Gauthier-Mamaril. Photograph by Rachel Gray.
Podcast and audio inspiration includes:
Ear Hustle
Glenn Gould’s radio documentaries
Death, Sex & Money
You can read the creative Massively Disabled behind-the-scenes blog series commissioned by Durham’ University’s The Polyphony and the peer reviewed article Élaina published in Hypatia on podcasting as a recreational scholarship praxis.
Élaina Gauthier-Mamaril (she/they) is a crip Filipinx philosopher of disability and creative podcast producer. She is the creator of podcasts such as Philosophy Casting Call, Bookshelf Remix, Women of Questionable Morals, and The Break Room. Élaina has produced two podcasts as part of Wellcome Trust-funded projects: Cripping Research Culture (University of Sheffield) and their flagship speculative non-fiction research podcast Massively Disabled (University of Edinburgh).
Élaina holds a PhD in Philosophy from the University of Aberdeen and has worked in the decolonial medical humanities since 2022. Her work has been published in Hypatia, Feminist Philosophy Quarterly, and The Polyphony. They have also worked with the Filipina organisation Women Doing Philosophy and contributed a chapter on crip Filipino philosophy for the Bloomsbury Guide to Philosophy of Disability.
Consulting Producer
From the Tilted Axis Website:
Khairani Barokka. Illustration by Soraya Gilanni Viljoen.
Khairani Barokka is a writer, artist, arts consultant, translator and editor from Jakarta. Okka’s work has been presented widely internationally, and centres disability justice as anticolonial praxis, environmental justice, and access as translation. She regularly teaches, mentors, and consults for arts organisations, and has a PhD by Practice in Visual Cultures from Goldsmiths, University of London. Among her honours, she has been a UNFPA Indonesian Young Leader Driving Social Change, a Delfina Foundation Associate Artist, an Artforum Must-See, and Associate Artist at the UK’s National Centre for Writing. She was the first Poet-in-Residence at Modern Poetry in Translation, and later became the magazine’s first non-British Editor. In 2023, Okka was shortlisted for the Asian Women of Achievement Awards in the Arts and Culture Category.
Her books include Indigenous Species (Tilted Axis), Stairs and Whispers: D/deaf and Disabled Poets Write Back (Nine Arches, as co-editor), Rope (Nine Arches),Ultimatum Orangutan (Nine Arches), shortlisted for the 2022 Barbellion Prize, and 2024’s amuk (Nine Arches), longlisted for the Jhalak Prize. Annah, Infinite (Tilted Axis) is her creative nonfiction debut.