Yesterday was Blog Against Disablism Day, and there's a nice roundup of BADD posts. (Yesterday was also Beltane, and the day Cora Anderson--one of the founders of the Feri tradition of religious witchcraft--finally let go of life and went to join Victor, who died six years ago. Forgive me if I was a bit too distracted to create metaprompts.)
Disability-related Prompts:
Canon Prompts: Does your canon have disabilities? Does it treat them as shameful situations, and convenient plot devices, or as part of having a well-rounded set of characters? Are disabilities all shown as two types: the plucky survivor in the wheelchair, or the wise-but-sorrowful "pillow angel*" who can't get out of bed? (Occasionally, there's also the informative asshole who can't get out of bed.) Does canon deal with cognitive or communicative disabilities, or just mobility-related ones? (Did anyone every actually believe Geordie LaForge was "disabled?") If your canon has disabilities, do they show up in stereotypical or minority patterns: is it always an Asian woman in a wheelchair, always a white male who's blind, always a special-needs educator or activist who shows up in the courthouse?
Fandom Prompts: Got a rec list of stories dealing with disabilities?![[info]](https://www.insanejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif)
painless_j's lists have a whole subsection of disability lists; there's a lot of "after the war, Harry was disabled" stories. Do you ever consider putting disabilities in your stories, or do you only write about healthy people? Do disabilities in stories squick you? (Or do some of them?) Have you read/written/drawn any where the disability was, itself, a turn-on?
Meta Prompts: Do essays about disablism and disabilities "harsh the squee?" If you deal with real-world disabilities, either in yourself or loved ones, does that affect how you relate to fandom? Away from online fandom, into fannish spaces: Are the conventions you attend (if any) accessible? Is there programming relevant to disabled needs; is there a way for a blind or deaf or person-in-wheelchair to attend the majority of the programming? (I don't say "all," because I assume nobody is interested in "all" the programming at an event--hence multiple tracks in multiple rooms.) Is the vendor room accessible?
Disability-related Prompts:
Canon Prompts: Does your canon have disabilities? Does it treat them as shameful situations, and convenient plot devices, or as part of having a well-rounded set of characters? Are disabilities all shown as two types: the plucky survivor in the wheelchair, or the wise-but-sorrowful "pillow angel*" who can't get out of bed? (Occasionally, there's also the informative asshole who can't get out of bed.) Does canon deal with cognitive or communicative disabilities, or just mobility-related ones? (Did anyone every actually believe Geordie LaForge was "disabled?") If your canon has disabilities, do they show up in stereotypical or minority patterns: is it always an Asian woman in a wheelchair, always a white male who's blind, always a special-needs educator or activist who shows up in the courthouse?
Fandom Prompts: Got a rec list of stories dealing with disabilities?
painless_j's lists have a whole subsection of disability lists; there's a lot of "after the war, Harry was disabled" stories. Do you ever consider putting disabilities in your stories, or do you only write about healthy people? Do disabilities in stories squick you? (Or do some of them?) Have you read/written/drawn any where the disability was, itself, a turn-on? Meta Prompts: Do essays about disablism and disabilities "harsh the squee?" If you deal with real-world disabilities, either in yourself or loved ones, does that affect how you relate to fandom? Away from online fandom, into fannish spaces: Are the conventions you attend (if any) accessible? Is there programming relevant to disabled needs; is there a way for a blind or deaf or person-in-wheelchair to attend the majority of the programming? (I don't say "all," because I assume nobody is interested in "all" the programming at an event--hence multiple tracks in multiple rooms.) Is the vendor room accessible?