When DC Comics ‘healed’ Barbara Gordon in 2011, they didn’t just restore a character’s mobility—they erased one of comics’ most powerful representations of disability, revealing how even progressive media struggles with the idea that heroism doesn’t require an able body.

I will be speaking Wednesday night at the http://www.meetup.com/Triangle-DevOps/ group’s October meeting, hosted by http://webassign.net. The topic is “Introduction to illumos”. I’m expecting this to be a gentle introduction to the illumos world f…