Book 2, Ep. 4 | Disability Studies with Jes Battis, PhD.
Material Girls
Rehak Hannah
4.8 • 1.3K Ratings
🗓️ 19 January 2021
⏱️ 67 minutes
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Summary
Special guest, Jes Battis PhD, joins us to unpack the history of disability studies and help us understand both the characters in Harry Potter and the world they inhabit as affected by ableism.
As mentioned in the episode, Jes wrote a book on Buffy the Vampire Slayer and chosen family! You can check it out here.
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| 0:00.0 | Hello and welcome to which please a fortnightly podcast about the Harry Potter |
| 0:08.4 | world. I'm Hannah McGregor and I'm Marcel Kausman and we are so delighted to have a brand new guest this episode. |
| 0:16.8 | We sure are. |
| 0:17.8 | This week we're joined by Jess Batis, who teaches literature and creative writing in the Department of English at the University of Regina. |
| 0:25.0 | Their research focuses on LGBTQ histories, medieval and 18th century studies, and representations of disability and neurodiversity in pop culture. |
| 0:35.3 | And we're going to learn all about Jess in the sorting chat. |
| 0:39.8 | But before you tell us about yourself, Jess, I feel very confident that listeners will want to know |
| 0:46.3 | about your house and your patroness. |
| 0:48.6 | Oh, this is a real sore spot. |
| 0:50.5 | So I've consistently been sorted into Huffle Puff in spite of like the clear fact that I'm Ravenclaw |
| 0:59.2 | But when I told my students this they were like no you're a Huffle Puff it's very obvious from everything that you do and say |
| 1:07.2 | But yeah I am a Huffle puff in spite of taking multiple tests with the explicit desire to get Ravenclaw, I am a Huffleback. |
| 1:16.1 | That's amazing that you've actually gone in and attempted to game the system to get Ravenclaw. |
| 1:21.8 | Isn't that a Ravenclaw move? |
| 1:23.2 | Like it's. |
| 1:24.0 | It really is. |
| 1:26.2 | And it's a very Huffle puff result that no matter how hard you try to game it. |
| 1:30.5 | It just keeps being like, mmm, no, sorry sorry you are kind and committed to open an |
| 1:36.0 | egalitarian pedagogy. Who knew? Jess part two of this very urgent question is not only what is your house, but do you have a patroness? |
| 1:49.3 | I do, but it's like it's been so long since I've done these tests. |
| 1:52.8 | I think it was a stag, I think. |
| 1:56.0 | Ooh. |
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