More destruction
Jul. 31st, 2017 11:46 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
mrissaOriginally published at Novel Gazing Redux. You can comment here or there.
I wrote an essay for the Disabled People Destroy SF project and its Kickstarter, and here it is: Malfunctioning Space Stations.
I am still quietly weirded out by this personal essay thing, where I write a professional non-bloggish thing and don’t have a veil of not-about-me around it, but all the same here it is, and it’s actually important to me, so go read it, please.
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Date: 2017-07-31 05:05 pm (UTC)Also I don't know who feels like we have enough minds on the problems at hand that they can afford to just throw some out, but it's not me.
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Date: 2017-07-31 06:00 pm (UTC)Oh, wow. This is so true. "Disability isn't a community, it's an affliction" to quote a certain SF author when I talked about SF/F failing to represent the disabled community.
It's such a good essay. The line about never seeing a balance disorder in fiction is one I've thought about a lot, for slightly different issues. I've only seen one realistic description of chronic pain, only two books with protagonists who are long term crutch users, and certainly never the two together. That's something that drives my own writing.
I pitched some ideas for the essays myself, which were judged to be better suited to a longer form, but all of the essays so far have really impressed me, even if one or two had the odd point I didn't agree with. (Not yours, he adds hastily)
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Date: 2017-07-31 08:38 pm (UTC)...I...excuse me?
What an extraordinary thing for that person to have decided for us.
I might have made the same mistake myself when I was able-bodied. At Readercon I went to lunch with two other disabled people and basked in how we handled getting seated, efficiently, affectionately, without fuss, but oh, the difference.
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Date: 2017-08-01 09:13 am (UTC)I just commented to friends that 'helping' us often tends to be more about ensuring the performance is seen and dutifully praised, than actually helping.
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Date: 2017-08-02 01:50 am (UTC)I don't want to build a future that's less human and humane than our present.