Oh, hey. It is last week's conference lanyard. I'm at the bottom of your luggage,

Alley Ward. Here we are. It's July in America and in other parts of the world.

Guess what? It's Pride Month. It's Disability Pride Month.

Did you know that? I did, which is why we're doing this episode.

This episode, it's one that was recorded months back, but I've kind of kept it tucked

in my pocket waiting to bust it out on this occasion.

This guest, simply wonderful, a professor of sociology

at the University of Colorado, Colorado Springs,

and they specialize in applied sociology

and intersectional research in the areas of disability and gender and pop

culture and social constructs and medicine. They got a bachelor's in psychology and

sociology, a master's in Sociology, and they also conduct research

and they do outreach.

They are very smart, they are very cool, and this was a great talk.

But before we get into it, a quick thanks to all the patrons who support the show for a dollar a month and submit your questions for the ologists via Patreon.com.

Thank you to everyone who's out there in ologies merch from ologies merch.com. We got hats, tots. We have swimwares for your bod.

Also, thanks to everyone who leaves us reviews. They help the show reach more people and I read them all.

Even the rare mean ones, like this week we got a one-star review from Van Veltzer

who didn't like that I said the F word in the Puffin episode, and said that I have a limited

vocabulary in my little brain, but Van. Sweet delicate Van. That's exactly why we make Smologies episodes, which are kids safe and

available in their own show feed. Smologies is its own show now. We just launched it.

Find it wherever you get podcasts.

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