Animorphuckery: Disability and Ableism in Animorphs... There's a Lot.
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Animorphuckery: Disability and Ableism in Animorphs... There's a Lot.
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CW: This episode discusses the misguided belief that disabled lives are not worth living or preserving. If now is not a good time to be in that headspace, please have a wonderful day listening to something else <3
Animorph topics include: the Auxiliary Animorphs (obviously!), no wheelchair ramps at the yeerk pool, yeerks/taxxons/gedds/nothlits/oatmeal-poisoned-yeerks as allegories for disability, Vecolism, Loren as the only good amnesia representation in all of literature, morphing technology as a miracle medical cure, and the incessant desire to morph into a grizzly bear to beat ableist doctors over the head with your own severed arm.
Disability topics include: strokes, POTS, EDS, MCAS, hypothyroidism, mono, seizures, spinal taps, mystery diagnoses, invisible illnesses, deadly allergies, COVID, brain fog, and several doctors who really should have been beaten over the head with a severed arm by a grizzly bear.
Read Shannon's (AMAZING!) short story in the "Nothing Without Us" anthology, which does NOT end with a doctor getting beaten to death by a grizzly bear with a severed arm but I promise you you'll like it anyways: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/51796332-nothing-without-us