Anadama Bread & Algorithms of Care/Harm w/ Dr. Laura Forlano

"This thing is keeping me alive, but it's also ruining my life"

Diabetic treatment devices, such as insulin pumps and continuous glucose monitors (CGMs), make SO MANY things about life with Diabetes easier. They are also... built by people, and can make some everyday things more complicated. Dr. Laura Forlano, Associate Professor of Design and Director of the Critical Futures Lab at the Illinois Institute of Technology, talks about her complicated relationship with her devices and the ways that design-thinking can help us make sense of it--and imagine a more just future.

Dr. Forlano's article "Data Rituals in Intimate Infrastructures: Crip Time and the Disabled Cyborg Body as an Epistemic Site of Feminist Science" was referenced a few times during the interview, and can be found here: https://doi.org/10.28968/cftt.v3i2.28843

We are also talking about Anadama Bread! (suggested by previous guest Dr. Carrie Rentschler) It's corny, it's molasses-y, it's.. Yankee? This New England staple is unlike any bread we've made before, and it's well worth a bake. Our loaves were based on the recipe from King Arthur Baking (you can find it here: https://www.kingarthurbaking.com/recipes/new-england-anadama-bread-recipe )

Melissa talks about some late-night frustrations (it's all PG around here, folks) and together she and Steve wrestle with the questions: How can framing Diabetes as a disability help us better understand life with it? And what do we do about the looming problem of treatment-related waste?

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