2010-06-07

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[personal profile] megwrites: SF and ablism (or: a not-as-such brief thought)

It seems as though when science fiction envisions a better, or at least more advanced, version of humanity it is one without disability, and thus one without disabled people. When you imagine a future without disability, it is a future in which you imagine that there are no disabled people.
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[personal profile] rhivolution: So Fucking Special: mental illness panel ftw

Main point of discussion: Are there accurate representations of our own experience (of mental illness) in SFF?