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sasha_feather

Chujo-hime (Tumblr): (no title) OK since a couple of people have messaged me Contains spoilers for the ending.

coffeeandink: Iron Man 3 (dir. Shane Black)

oyceter: Iron Man 3

Overthinking It: Theorizing Disability in Iron Man 3

sasha_feather

Think Progress: In "The Michael J. Fox Show" and "Ironside", NBC bets big on Characters with Physical Limitations

The network is remaking Ironside, a show about a detective who uses a wheelchair after he’s shot in the line of duty that ran on NBC for eight seasons between 1967 and 1975. And it’ll be airing The Michael J. Fox show, a sitcom featuring the titular comedian, who did seven years on NBC with Family Ties, which ran from 1982 to 1989, as a news anchor who returns to work despite the way his Parkinson’s Disease, from which Fox suffers in real life. In other words, NBC is putting two shows on air that feature characters with physical limitations, moving a kind of character who’s often relegated to supporting roles—and who’s often there to illustrate the goodness of or provide moral tests to fully able-bodied characters—to the center of the frame. And from the trailers, it looks like both Ironside and The Michael J. Fox show won’t shy away from discussing their characters’ physical limitations, and other people’s reactions to them, directly.

sasha_feather

laurashapiro: Stuff I have been doing

raanve: Iron Man 3: OMG Everybody

coffeeandink: Iron Man 3 redux

kate_nepveu: Iron Man 3 (Spoilers)

lettered: Iron Man 3
Cross post at LJ

Hollywood Reporter: Does Tony Stark have PTSD?

Likely more to come! Feel free to drop links in comments.

sasha_feather

Pain Relief Foundation: House MD: An analysis of chronic pain managed with opiate therapy in
entertainment television. By Jemma Theivendran
Imperial College Medical School London
November 2007

Please note that this is a PDF.

via

metanews

chordatesrock

I have posted a survey inquiring about people's responses to depictions of disability. I'm interested in responses from both PWDs and CNDs.

chordatesrock

Is there an existing dialogue around the Disability AU (a story where a canonically abled character is written with a noncanonical disability)? Or do people simply have their private feelings, or public fanfics, without discussing why they feel and write the way they do?

I'd be interested in knowing what people think.

jackandahat

Since she's been discussed before with regards to her portrayal of Barbara Gordon, I thought this was relevant to this com.

Gail Simone dismissed from Batgirl - The article contains commentary from a wheelchair user.

It also seems from her Tumblr that the "recovery arc" won't actually be happening. Her post here.

chordatesrock

I do know that

accessportrayal is my community and I can make arbitrary decisions about it if I want to, but since the

access_fandom crowd is a big chunk of potential membership, I feel like asking opinions. I've been considering adding my own article, not about a specific disability, but about disabilities that magically go away, because I've had this happen to me and putting those experiences into words could be useful for writers who choose (against all attempts to persuade them otherwise) to go that route with their characters. Do you think that's a good idea (especially for fanfic writers who have no choice) or will it just encourage more of this kind of plot twist?

sasha_feather

janice_lester: meta: Give sexy actors sexy wheelchairs!

This is about wheels, (mostly) white (mostly) male characters, and how The Powers That Be on TV and film sets seem fated--whether by unpleasant design or mere privileged ignorance--to be forever Getting It Wrong. When they could be getting it oh, so right.

This post talks about media portrayals of characters who use wheelchairs. It is image heavy with some video; there aren't image descriptions for all of the images nor captions on the video.

sasha_feather

My thoughts on the Lizard/Dr. Connors in The Amazing Spiderman are at my journal.

sasha_feather

This was posted back in September of 2011:

s. e. smith, writing at XO Jane: Everybody loves "Glee" (Except the Disability Community and People with Asperger's

sasha_feather

Some criticisms of Downton Abbey by me.

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ysabetwordsmith

The next session of the Crowdfunding Creative Jam will run January 14-15. The theme is "Disabled People (visibly and invisibly disabled)" based on a previous poll. Mark the time on your calendar so you can leave and/or claim prompts.

What is a Creative Jam?

It's kind of like a jam session in music, only with all kinds of creative material, and online. (See previous sessions featuring "Inner Worlds" and "Misfits" to see prompts and the works they inspired.) This is a chance for writers, artists, fans, and other creative people to trade ideas and create stories, poems, artwork, music or whatever else they want. If you don't think that there's enough fiction, art, etc. with disabled characters, or that disabilities aren't portrayed very well, then ask for something more awesome. If you like to write, draw, or otherwise render people with disabilities, then drop by and look for inspiration among the other prompts. Some of the material gets posted free, and some is usually available for sale, depending on the individual creators' choices.

Want to do some advance planning for this Creative Jam?

Torn World has a number of disabled characters including Rai (owned by me, blind), Marai (adoptable, deaf), Kalitelm (adoptable, dwarfism & club feet), and Ularki (adoptable, mentally disabled).

Here are some articles:
"Blind Characters: A Process of Awareness"
"Deaf Characters: Behind the Fiction"
"Depiction of Intellectual Disability in Fiction"
"On the handling of disabled characters"
"Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder in Fiction"
"Writing About Disability"
"Writing Characters with Mental Illness"
"Writing My First Wheelchair Bound Character Has Been Enlightening"
"Writing Realistic Disabled Characters"

"1001 Drawings"
"Disability & Art"
"The Disability Paradox: Ghettoisation of the Visual"

"Fantastic Films, Fantastic Bodies"
"Media Representation of Disabled People"
"Movies with Characters with Disabilities"
"Top 10 TV Shows with a Disabled Character"

"Famous Disabled People in History"
"Well Known People with Disabilities"

Also, I'm open to having other folks host the Crowdfunding Creative Jam in future sessions. If you'd like to volunteer, please let me know and we'll discuss which month(s) you want. The aforementioned poll listed a bunch of themes that people were interested in writing about, so you can pick one of those.

Current Mood: busy

sasha_feather

This Ain't Livin': No Disability at the Final Frontier: Science Fiction, Cures, and Eliminationism

sasha_feather

Give Batgirl the Chair by Eric Glover.

This is an in-depth article about the controversy surrounding the DCU relaunch of Batgirl.

Op-Ed: Oracle is Stronger than Batgirl will Ever Be by Jill Pantozzi

terajk

Title: You are Here: Why Ryoga Hibiki is Awesome
Fandom: Ranma 1/2
Characters Ryoga, a guest appearance by Mousse
Rating: PG-13 (my language...oops)
Word count: around 2000 words
Warnings: Discussion of stalking and violence. Spoilers abound.

Summary: Ryoga is allowed to be just Like That, even without remotely passing as a non-disabled person. In a general sense, the same is true for anyone else in the cast: the horribly abusive fathers, lethal chefs, and all the people who spend half their time in the form of animals or other people won't be mistaken as typical by anyone; yet they all live together in a tense but tolerant way. What this means for Ryoga is that Takahashi doesn't medicalize his lostness at all.

At my journal.

rhivolution

After reading Anna's post on FWD about fiction books regarding disability, I remembered a post that I'd been meaning to make for a little while regarding obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD) in fiction. (By the way, help Anna out if you're so inclined! I have lousy memory and therefore am little assistance...)

My list is not particularly long.

So, if you know of fictional representations of OCD--on stage, screen, or pages both virtual and dead-tree--please have a look at my list and commentary here. They don't necessarily have to be well-done representations either, as I'm looking to just compile a list for my own analytical purposes.

Thanks, all!

Current Mood: hopeful

sasha_feather

Glee linkspam

WLB Productions: Glee Season 2 Britney/Brittany

jmtorres: What was that I don’t even

s.e. smith at This Aint Livin’: Glee: Where to begin, where to begin?

verschreibsel:
it’s just me and me (contains moving images)

rydra_wong

With Festibility approaching, I thought it might be useful to add links to these pieces.

rachelmanija wrote A User's Guide to PTSD, a "three-part essay on post-traumatic stress disorder: understanding it, having it, writing it."

kaninchen wrote this post about what it's actually like to have hallucinations and delusions, versus the typical media portrayal:

Moving from Twitter to Tumblr to have more space ...

(Thanks to

sholio and

softestbullet via whom I found them originally.)

ETA: see the comments for more resources.

jesse_the_k

kestrell, who's been involved in SFF fandom for 2/3 of forever, is a regular writer for Green Man Review, an aficionado of horror, and was half of the team to bring Better Access to WisCon31, just got back from Readercon. She presented on "What Good Writers Still Get Wrong about Blind People"

begin quote Because my goal is to discuss specific representations of blindness and blind people, I am going to use concrete examples from specific works. I don't wish for this to be interpreted as personal attacks upon the writers who wrote these works; I specifically mention in the title of this talk that these are all good writers, really, the best writers. The problem, I believe, is that there is so much mythologizing and misinformation about blindness and blind people that it is difficult for even the best authors to always distinguish fact from fiction, reality from stereotype. quote ends

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More Iron Man 3 Links

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Ableism and Disability in Iron Man 3

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Disability AUs

Gail Simone

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The Amazing Spiderman

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Crowdfunding Creative Jam

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Ranma 1/2 disability meta

ISO Fictional Representations of OCD

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