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Some links of interest
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sasha_feather1. Ace Ratcliffe at io9: Staircases in Space - Why are places in Science Fiction not Wheelchair Accessible?
https://io9.gizmodo.com/staircases-in-space-why-are-places-in-science-fiction-1827966642
2. Peter Wong at BeyondChron: Nicola Griffith's 'So Lucky' tackels disability rights. Warning for some ableist language in the review.
http://www.beyondchron.org/nicola-griffiths-so-lucky-tackles-disability-rights/
But Mara’s greatest source of stressful anxiety comes from her being bombarded directly and indirectly with messages of her helplessness and lack of control over her life. Her neurologist is just the first of many people to treat Mara as a non-person lacking individual desires. More dangerously, what feels like a spectral threat of death that only Mara can see might be more than something imagined.
An angry Twitter #CripRage thread helps Mara begin to fight back. Re-claiming the derogatory term “crips” as a mark of pride, she proceeds to verbally chew the legs off those who profit from, sentimentalize, or even ignore crips’ needs.
3. An access-fandom community member suggests this Go Fund Me as being of interest to the community! It's raising money to make sex toys specifically designed for disabled people.
https://www.gofundme.com/sxtoydisabilityresearch
https://io9.gizmodo.com/staircases-in-space-why-are-places-in-science-fiction-1827966642
2. Peter Wong at BeyondChron: Nicola Griffith's 'So Lucky' tackels disability rights. Warning for some ableist language in the review.
http://www.beyondchron.org/nicola-griffiths-so-lucky-tackles-disability-rights/
But Mara’s greatest source of stressful anxiety comes from her being bombarded directly and indirectly with messages of her helplessness and lack of control over her life. Her neurologist is just the first of many people to treat Mara as a non-person lacking individual desires. More dangerously, what feels like a spectral threat of death that only Mara can see might be more than something imagined.
An angry Twitter #CripRage thread helps Mara begin to fight back. Re-claiming the derogatory term “crips” as a mark of pride, she proceeds to verbally chew the legs off those who profit from, sentimentalize, or even ignore crips’ needs.
3. An access-fandom community member suggests this Go Fund Me as being of interest to the community! It's raising money to make sex toys specifically designed for disabled people.
https://www.gofundme.com/sxtoydisabilityresearch