Cassie Josephs’ excellent Tor.com essay, "Murderbot: An Autistic-Coded Robot Done Right" explores how Martha Well's series provides insight into autistic lives and rights.

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Superfest Disability Film Festival is the longest running disability film festival in the world. For more than 30 years, Superfest has celebrated cutting-edge cinema that portrays disability through a diverse, complex, unabashed and engaging lens. Superfest is one of the few festivals worldwide that prioritizes access for disabled filmgoers of all kinds.

Visit http://www.superfestfilm.com/tickets for movie schedules, how the Zoom-based discussions will work, and sliding scale ($0 - $50) tickets for an entire weekend of programming: three film screenings and four panel discussions.

All movies are open-captioned and audio described; all live programming includes captions and ASL interpreters.

Lineup of films and panels

• Friday, October 16, 5:30 - 8:30pm PT (0030 - 0330 UTC 17 Oct)
  1 70-minute narrative film on Friday, followed by a panel: "Disability, Blackness, and Representation"

• Saturday, October 17, 2 - 4:45pm PT (2100 - 2345 UTC)
  6 short films totaling 52-minutes on Saturday followed by panel: "Representations of Disability with Superfest Filmmakers & Subjects"

• Sunday, October 18, 2 - 4:45pm PT and 5-6pm PT (2100 - 2345 18 Oct and 0000 - 0100 19 Oct UTC)
  8 short films totaling 74 minutes on Sunday followed by two panels: "Emerging Disability Filmmakers" and "Jurors Tell All!"

Full details at http://www.superfestfilm.com/2020-films

Yes, the developer's name is in the game, because he chats with you as you play.

http://www.foddy.net/2017/09/getting-over-it/

Why I'm posting it here: This game's character has the capabilities of a very strong paraplegic. It's a man sitting in an round-bottom iron cooking pot, climbing a treacherous landscape using only his upper body and the levering power of a very long sledgehammer. The game provides infinite opportunities to get it wrong, and you can't save your progress.

I'm not a gamer, so I may have been looking in the wrong place, but as far as I can tell nobody is talking about this disability angle.

( Captioned game trailer for Steam )

Annalee Flower Horne leeflower, an SF writer and coder, just published an outstanding essay on disability representation. It’s a great entry point for educating folks with no disability experience. It also offers a useful new-to-me concept “TV paraplegia.”

Disability, Representation, and the X-Men

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Professor Xavier has “TV Paraplegia,” which is a form of nerve damage that completely paralyzes the legs of people on television without causing chronic pain, muscle spasms, or incontinence. Depending on the version of the X-Men universe he’s in, Xavier either has a spinal cord injury or his legs were crushed. Neither injury is portrayed realistically

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Realism aside, the big problem with Xavier’s TV paraplegia is that while it’s the leading cause of wheelchair use in popular media, the overwhelming majority of people who drive wheelchairs in the real world are not paralysed at all. Those who do have some form of paralysis exist along a broad spectrum of motor function.
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https://thebias.com/2017/10/31/disability-representation-and-the-x-men/)