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Diversity in Single Serving Slices
When it comes to writing, we have to be willing to examine, with suspicion, our own character creation and world-building.
When it comes to writing, we have to be willing to examine, with suspicion, our own character creation and world-building.
I can feel their eyes on me. They’re all staring, judging.
Magic and technology often minimize disability in SF/F. How can authors meaningfully engage with disability and the ways that speculative elements can affect disabled characters?
After second grade, I stopped reading most books unless they were assigned for class. Even then, I often didn’t read them. The reason being, when I read a sentence, I often didn’t understand it. Somewhere between my eyes seeing the words and my brain, the phrase disappeared into the ether.
We’re excited to announce our first event of 2016: from March 14 to 27, join us for all kinds of posts about disability in science fiction and fantasy!
Since our founding exactly three years ago, we’ve built up an impressive bank of reviewed titles. Now, we’re making the search for good representation even easier.
Bad depictions in popular culture foster the narrative of the lazy narcoleptic: They’re lazy. They’re late/unproductive/lethargic employees. They’re uncaring lovers or absent friends. And so on and so on.
What was originally intended to be a one-month event has now reached its third birthday, and we could not be more ecstatic!
It’s time for #alamw16: all the information on ARCs, signings, and awards related to disability representation.
It wasn’t until I was an adult that I could finally understand that from the time of my diagnosis, my education was not going to be “complete,” because I did not have the full access I needed. It was as if intensive speech therapy and itinerant teachers were more important than having a sign language interpreter in my classes.