By Chally on 7 December, 2010
This piece contains lots of spoilers. I wanted to love this book, I really did. I have enjoyed the couple of Julie Ellis novels I’ve read, but this one just tipped the charming/not happening scale a bit far. It has a really strong heroine in Vicky, who escapes the Russian pogroms to build a new [...]
Posted in books, feminism, gender, media and pop culture, race, relationships, representations, sexuality | Tagged book review, disability in fiction, disabled women, fiction, problematic attitudes, reviews, sex, wheelchair users, women
By Annaham on 11 May, 2010
sqbr at Poking at Thorns (with gloves on): Disability in Speculative Fiction: Monsters, mutants and muggles Fiction reflects social attitudes, and the social attitudes to disabled people tend to suck. Disabled people are presented as scary, pathetic, exotic, demanding, laughable, etc. But some tropes are popular/unique to SF. It’s not all bad: speculative fiction allows [...]
Posted in recommended reading | Tagged ableism, accessibility, disability in fiction, disability is a feminist issue, feminism, fiction, gender, independence, medical, medical care, mental health, mental illness, pain, pregnancy, science fiction
By s.e. smith on 15 April, 2010
i think the idea of a ‘mental health day’ is something completely invented by people who have no clue what it’s like to have bad mental health. the idea that your mind can be aired out in twenty-four hours is kind of like saying heart disease can be cured if you eat the right breakfast [...]
Posted in books, mental health, Quotations, representations | Tagged depression, disability in fiction, disabled characters, fiction, mental health days
By s.e. smith on 27 November, 2009
(This post does not contain plot specific spoilers, beyond a very broad overview of the concept behind the Sookie Stackhouse novels and the characterization of Sookie Stackhouse.) I’ve loved the Sookie Stackhouse novels ever since a friend put one of them into my hot little hands because, well, it was hot and I was far [...]
Posted in media and pop culture, normality, representations | Tagged disability in fiction, Sookie Stackhouse
By amandaw on 23 October, 2009
(Cross-posted at three rivers fog.) I wrote this yesterday in an extreme fog and do not have the spoons to rework and polish it. Apologies for the brainspill, but these days it’s the only option I have. *** For background, see Ouyang Dan’s post on the problematic aspects of the TV show House. Don’t tell [...]
Posted in blaming, i'm right here, media and pop culture, shaming, social attitudes, Uncategorized | Tagged ableism, abuse, addiction, causation, characters with disabilities, chronic illness, chronic pain, chronic pain conditions, disability, disability in fiction, disabled characters, disclosure, drugs are bad mmm'kay, erasing, fibromyalgia, House M.D., invisibility, invisible disabilities, invisible disability, life, me, medications, myths and misconceptions, pain management, passing, personal, pop culture, privilege, problematic attitudes, shaming, social treatment, stereotypes, stories, television, things people say, work
By Guest on 20 October, 2009
What is Max’s impairment? What is Esther’s? And why can we recognize Max’s within five seconds of meeting her, while it takes us nearly two hours to learn–pardon the phrase–what is “wrong with” Esther?
Posted in media and pop culture | Tagged disability in fiction, exclusion, family dynamics, invisible disability, media and pop culture, mislabelling, movies, myths and misconceptions, narrative, orphan
By s.e. smith on 18 October, 2009
abby jean’s post, “How Do We Understand This Experience?,” spun my brain off on a tangent about how disability issues are framed in the media and pop culture. Specifically, I read her post and then picked up a book I was in the process of reading and I came across the line “I couldn’t breathe. [...]
Posted in language, media and pop culture | Tagged disability in fiction, word use
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