Disability & Fiction: After the Dragon by Sarah Monette
Sarah Monette wrote a short story for Dragon Magazine called After the Dragon. After the dragon, she lay in the white on white hospital room and wanted to die. The counselor came and talked about...
View ArticleQuoted: David Levithan in ‘Will Grayson, Will Grayson’ on ‘Mental Health Days’
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...
View ArticleRecommended reading for May 11, 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....
View ArticleFiction Book List!
Almost, but not quite, a year ago today I put a call out on my personal journal looking for recommendations or lists of YA books that feature characters with disabilities. From that call out, I got...
View ArticleBook Review: Lasting Treasures by Julie Ellis
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...
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