Jan 11 • 49M

Chapter One: Aristotle’s Lonely Monsters

Olivia talks about Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein and interviews her friend Anne. Also, Olivia discusses the trope of disabled people learning behind walls.

 
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Olivia Dreisinger
Diagnosis Grad School is a documentary podcast series exploring the many challenges disabled academics deal with inside academic institutions in the hopes of shifting the university experience for current and future disabled graduate students. Lights. Camera. Ableism! Join your exhausted host Olivia Dreisinger as she sneaks disability past the inaccessible front steps of the Ivory Tower, and podcasts her way through grad school.
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Olivia talks about Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein and interviews her friend Anne. “My own self-perception was that I was a monster sitting in this class with other normal people.” Also, Olivia discusses the trope of disabled people learning from behind walls.

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