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1. 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

Disability in SF

Fri, Aug. 22nd, 2014 02:12 pm
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Kathryn Allan at Pornokitsch: Friday 5: Five Positive Representations of disability in SF

I want to highlight five stories that present atypical and non-normative experiences of embodiment in creative, engaging, and thought-provoking ways. Technology is not always wanted or accessible as a “cure all.” People with disabilities can be three-dimensional characters! Each of the five stories on my list of “good disability in SF examples” examines the complex diversity of human bodies and minds.

Book review

Tue, Apr. 15th, 2014 08:13 pm
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A book review of The WisCon Chronicles vol. 7, Shattering Ableist Narratives.

Access and Fandom: Disability Studies From a Feminist Science Fiction Perspective

Review by Katie Wagner and Alexis Lothian.

April 2025

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