The Passionate Friar
Wednesday February 3rd, 2016 with Phelonius Friar
Interviewing Alex Nuttal on disability tropes in comics and Barbara Gordon/Batgirl, and an intro to citizen science

On today's show, I get to do my first interview for this show! In conversation in the studio will be Alex Nuttal, a Master's student here at Carleton University discussing her thesis-in-progress of a feminist examination of disability tropes in popular media by examining the case of Barbara Gordon, aka Batgirl, aka Oracle and the issues surrounding her physical impairment and subsequent re-ablement that has caused such controversy. For science, some topics in "citizen science" (yes, you can and should do this at home!) that I think are going to take a few shows to get through, but we need to start somewhere... And, as always, as much marvy tunage as I can fit throughout. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Citizen_science https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_citizen_science_projects https://www.zooniverse.org/ http://www.penguinwatch.org/ https://www.edx.org/course/proteins-biologys-workforce-ricex-bioc300-1x-1# http://folding.stanford.edu/