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This is from January 2022:

Frank deserves better than "Station Eleven." So do disabled stories.
If anyone is built for surviving an apocalypse, it’s the disabled people who have been living it already
By Alison Stine

https://www.salon.com/2022/01/16/station-eleven-frank-disability-survival-sacrifice/

Content note for non-graphic discussion of suicide.
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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.

May 2025

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