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Christina Applegate talks about having M.S.

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/christina-applegate-multiple-sclerosis-symptoms-new-york-times-interview/

"Applegate has been transparent on Twitter about her difficulties living with MS, showing photos of the assistive devices she uses to walk, chronicling the insomnia that's accompanied her diagnosis, and even showing love to a fellow Hollywood star Selma Blair, who was diagnosed with the disease in 2018. "

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Netflix star Ryan O'Connell on portraying the "desire and humanity" of disabled relationships.

May 2021

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/ryan-oconnell-netflix-special-disabled-relationships/

"For O'Connell, it was important that Ryan undergo the same transformation — to be in a relationship that would test his ability to feel comfortable and valued, to assert his own independence and his own self-worth."

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Interesting post about Amos in the show "the Expanse," as a character who is/could be autistic and who has C-PTSD.

https://almostdefinitelydying.tumblr.com/post/157406005655/okay-so-the-thing-about-amos

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Spoilers below the cut. My personal preference is to be spoiled for this sort of thing.

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Disability Representation on TV: Interview with Katherine Beattie.

Katherine discusses writing for NCIS: New Orleans.

https://disabilityvisibilityproject.com/2019/04/14/disability-representation-on-tv-interview-with-katherine-beattie/

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Ariel Henly at the Washington Post:

Hollywood should know better: You can't tell evil just by looking.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/hollywood-should-know-better-you-cant-tell-evil-just-by-looking/2019/02/19/bf066ee6-2020-11e9-8b59-0a28f2191131_story.html

Moviegoers are supposed to know that characters such as Scar in “The Lion King,” Freddy Krueger and Doctor Poison are evil simply by looking at them. And it’s an impression that lasts long after moviegoers leave the theater, conditioning the general public to fear individuals who, like me, have asymmetrical faces, burns or scars, and to believe that we are not worthy of equality, empathy and inclusion.

Andrew Todd at /Film:

Off the Deep End: ‘A Star is Born’ and Why the MPAA Needs to Include Depictions of Suicide in Its Ratings

https://www.slashfilm.com/a-star-is-born-suicide/

Content warning: this article contains forthright descriptions of suicide and suicidal thoughts. It also contains spoilers for A Star is Born.

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Rose Eveleth at Wired:
"It's Time to Rethink Who's Best Suited for Space Travel"

https://www.wired.com/story/its-time-to-rethink-whos-best-suited-for-space-travel/?mbid=social_twitter_onsiteshare

We need the strongest, smartest, most adaptable among us to go. But strength comes in many forms, as do smarts. And if you want to find people who are the very best at adapting to worlds not suited for them, you’ll have the best luck looking at people with disabilities, who navigate such a world every single day. Which has led disability advocates to raise the question: What actually is the right stuff?

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Ira Gladkova at Uncanny Magazine:

Miles Vorkosigan and “Excellent Life Choices”: (Neuro)Divergence and Decision-Making in Bujold’s Vorkosigan Saga.

https://uncannymagazine.com/article/miles-vorkosigan-and-excellent-life-choices-neurodivergence-and-decision-making-in-bujolds-vorkosigan-saga/

Contains spoilers for all of the books, particularly for the book "Memory".

Making good life choices is hard. Making good life choices when you’re neurodivergent is damn hard. Perhaps the most relatable and engaging such struggle I’ve read is that of Miles Vorkosigan, from Lois McMaster Bujold’s Vorkosigan Saga. Miles and his “excellent life choices” entertain, astound, and horrify me even as they dig at something deep inside my bipolar, ADHD brain.

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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

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Rose Lemberg at Strange Horizons: Sargeant Bothari and Disability Representation in the Early Vorkosigan Verse

http://strangehorizons.com/non-fiction/sergeant-bothari-and-disability-representation-in-the-early-vorkosiverse/

(thanks to

davidgillon for this link).

Kristen Lopez: ‘Skyscraper’ is a Surprising Mark of Improvement for Disabled Representation on the Big Screen

https://www.slashfilm.com/disability-in-skyscraper/

Kristen Lopez at the Daily Beast: Marvel’s ‘Ant-Man and the Wasp’ and Hollywood’s Misunderstanding of Disability.

https://www.thedailybeast.com/marvels-ant-man-and-the-wasp-and-hollywoods-misunderstanding-of-disability-2
(warning for some ableist language in this article).

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David Perry at Pacific Standard magazine: How to write great SciFi about Disability Law

https://psmag.com/social-justice/how-to-write-great-sci-fi-about-disability-law

Hi all. Sorry if the subject line is a bit vague, but I'm wondering if the song that I've linked to here was actually meant to be sort of a disability-rights advocacy thing or if the timing when it came out was just right. The reason I ask is because I just heard another song by these guys a few minutes ago when I was at a neighbor friend's place across the hall. I've always really enjoyed these guys, and there is an advocacy organization here in Chicago called Access Living. Their website used to have a video with this song playing in the background, and it might still be up there but I haven't gotten it to play. Anyway, I was just curious about this. https://is.gd/D0UXiG

Current Mood: tired
Current Location: bachelor pad.
Current Music: CSN&Y

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What you're Saying when You Say "I Don't Need the Mic"
By Erika A. Hewitt
August 31, 2017

https://www.uua.org/worship/lab/what-youre-saying-when-you-say-i-dont-need-mic

This is directed at a Unitarian Universalist audience, but can apply to any group or event.

“When a mic is being used at a meeting and someone looks at it and says, ‘Do we really need this?’ I feel outright anger. That person just asked if people like me really exist and demanded that we defend ourselves.”

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Disability Erasure And The Apocalyptic Narrative
By Shoshana Kessock
Aug 28, 2017

https://shoshanakessock.com/2017/08/28/disability-erasure-and-the-apocalyptic-narrative/

Content note: discusses violence towards disabled characters; images of guns; some ableist language used

Examination of a widely-used SF trope:
As a disabled woman, disaster epics, apocalypse fiction, and post-apoc tales aren’t a vicarious thrill for me anymore. Theoretical zombie apocalypse escape plan BS sessions with friends aren’t amusing anymore. They’re an exercise in facing my mortality.

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My Future Includes Disability by Kelly Robson

http://kellyrobson.com/my-futures-include-disability/

From June 29, 2017

People also say, “In the future we’ll be able to fix disabilities. Even if someone is injured, we’ll be able to fix them.” Okay, but not everything is fixable. Not every medical risk is warranted. Not every procedure is worthwhile. And not everyone wants or needs to be fixed. A person who is managing their disability is still disabled, after all, and managing one’s own life and making choices for oneself is the foundation of human adulthood.

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This is from last year, and is a quite comprehensive post aimed at authors.

Corinne Duyvis and Kayla Whaley, writing at Disability in Kidlit:

http://disabilityinkidlit.com/2016/07/08/introduction-to-disability-terminology/

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Mickey Rowe at Teen Vogue:
"Netflix's "Atypical" Was a Major Disappointment for Autism Representation"

http://www.teenvogue.com/story/netflix-atypical-autism-representation

In watching the show, I noticed that it seems to play into stereotypes that I’ve experienced firsthand that could have easily been avoided and that may present damaging information about autistic people. There is so much misinformation about autism in part because we nearly always learn about autism from non-autistic people, instead of learning about autism from autistic adults.

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Alaina Leary at Teen Vogue:

How Disfigured Villain's like Wonder Woman's 'Dr. Poison' perpetuate stigma

Similar to previous linked articles here, but includes a wider critique of media by including Voldemort, Darth Vader, and others.

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Neda Ulabe for All Things Considered at NPR:

Game of Thrones finds fans among disability rights activists too

You can read or listen to this piece.

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Ariel Henley writing at Bustle:

As a woman with a facial disfigurement, this Wonder Woman villain pisses me off

This post contains spoilers for the film, and a looping gif. Contains references to WWI and suicide of veterans.

Linked in the above article is this older piece about Bond films:

Why are so many Bond villains disabled or disfigured? I ask the producers

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sasha_feather - Christina Applegate talks about having M.S.
sasha_feather - Article about disabled people in relationships
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sasha_feather - The Magicians - spoilers for season 4 finale
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sasha_feather - Using the Mic
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