a conversation about ableism, disability, and the portrayal of wheelchair-using characters in comics! With Gabriella (the Girl Who Sits) and Dayspring (Power of X)!

Graymalkin Lane the podcast · Dec 10, 2021 · 1h 23m

Welcome to a very special episode of Graymalkin Lane. Charles Xavier is many things: the most powerful mutant mind on the planet, the leader of an army of super-powered teenagers, a designer of weapons and robots, and a man with a mysterious and complicated background, but he has always stood out for one reason above all others. Charles Xavier is in a wheelchair.

For nearly 60 years, Professor X has been an inspiration to the disabled community. Whether you know him as the complicated secret-keeper in the comics, the decisive leader in his hover-chair in the cartoons, or the compassionate…