MIND MELD: Disabilities in Speculative Fiction

[davidgillon]

New article on disability in specfic at SF Signal:

MIND MELD: Disabilities in Speculative Fiction

To summarize: Aaaargh! *Headdesk* *Headdesk* *Headdesk*

The Ship Who Sang suggested as an example of positive depictions of disabled characters - just shoot me now....

Disability overwhelmingly presented as a struggle, people coping with disability dismissed as non-representative, not a mention of the Social Model or the disability rights struggle, a panel that's clearly overwhelmingly non-disabled. There are one or two who have a clue, but overall, just no.

I have committed (possibly harsh) commentary.

Comments

[anke]

One thing that was little but really stood out to me in the Sharing Knife books was when Dag was with Fawn's family, and nodded to the room on general before leaving, he remembered to say something so the blind grandmother wouldn't be left out from the little polite gesture.

[davidgillon]

Yes, that's a nice piece of observation - evidence for LMB thinking herself right into both character and scene.