#theoraclecode

‎ ‎ ⟩‎ ‎ [ that’s all. try not to be dead the next time i stop by again. don’t tell // @theoraclecode // i circumvented her cybersecurity measures again, it’s – frankly – child’s play in this world. xox. ]

which part are you looking forward to the most?

I have wanted to read Oracle code for a long time. Barbara Gordon as wheelchair using hacker and crime solver Oracle it's probably my favorite character in corporate superhero comics , Marieke Nijkamp is queer and disabled, though they are not wheelchair users themselves. They have written and talked about disability in ways that I find very resident.. Manuel Preitano''s pencils and Jordi Bellaire 's colors look great. There are some wonderful things about this book, from accurate depictions of the kinds of skills one learns in a clinical rehab independent living training scenario, there are great moments of friendship and conflict between diverse sampling of disabled characters, but there is a rather glaring flaw in the decision to treat that same rehab and some of the same staff therapists and members as villains conducting eugenics experiments on the rehab residents . On the one hand, this ground was the story in conventional superhero trope and there is certainly a history and present of people with disabilities being subject to all kinds of medical experiments without their complete active consent, but I have a big problem with the way it's presented in the story.  Finding the secretlab where the disappearances and experiments are taking place takes away from showing Barbara actually going through rehab, and especially in processing the psychological aspects of her trauma in a way that is very essential to the story that the creators seemed to be trying to tell. Worse, those moments they do capture some spirit of rehab and independent living style therapy and pedagogy are undermined by later development In the last two panels I excerpted I think it's a real problem they have the physical therapist giving out actually sound advice about trying hard not being able to advance the timetable of healing rehab and only to have be revealed as a eugenical villain is jarring This framing does allow Babs and Company to fisticuff literal prejudice which is a superhero thing but Babs suspicions about the efficacy of independent living and Rehab are somewhat Justified and that's alarming #theoraclecode #dccomics #mariekenijkamp #wheelchairusers #babsgordon (at Gotham City) https://www.instagram.com/p/CCjtfSEBIi0/?igshid=4cdwfsu8ywsc