Disabled People Destroy Science Fiction will focus on making our work as disabled creators public. But what is it like to be disabled in public? In my experience it can be quite different from country to country, and also relate to how you present yourself, both online and offline. I am autistic and also have […]
Let’s be honest here, science fiction and fantasy have always been the genres that misfits want to find themselves in. Growing up, I was a terrible student, but I was an avid reader. I loved randomly picking books off the shelf and discovering a good story, no matter the genre. Except I’d be lying if […]
The other day, someone asked me if I felt like I “count” as disabled. A lot of people don’t. A lot of people feel like they aren’t disabled “enough” to claim crip, to claim disability, to claim party to this community, to this issue, to this world. I said yes. Not everyone would agree with […]
(Content Note: This essay depicts the visceral experience of a panic attack, dissociative experiences, and discusses incidents of suicide and self-harm in the movie Inception, which may be disturbing for some readers.) It is 2 a.m. and the dragon says my marriage is ending. It’s right. I know it with a certainty. Like the shuddering […]
Doctor Who, with its 55 years of continuity, regularly-rotating-cast-and-crew, and deep long-term generational fandom, is like no other television show. While many elements of Doctor Who are iconic and fascinating as pop culture phenomena in their own right, the identity of the ever-changing leading man has always been a matter for great scrutiny, from hardcore […]
My grandmother thinks of her father’s lifespan with awe. “He went from the horse and buggy to a man in space,” she repeats wistfully. “I don’t think anyone will ever see progress like that again.” And my mother nudges her, gently, that humanity’s not done yet; and I think about progress like that again, especially […]
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I once saw an older writer than I claim that they were the last generation to grow without TV, and explained this had a big impact on them and their writing. But I was thirty years younger and I also had no television growing up. I grew up on a boat in Grenada and the […]
It’s 1984, I am eight years old, and I am up past my bedtime. I’m doing the thing that would define a good chunk of the rest of my life: sitting in front of pop culture, reacting to it, and working out why that was happening. This particular instance is important, because this is the […]
One of the great criticisms aimed at science fiction and fantasy is that it is “escapist,” framed as if that’s some terrible indictment—and the impulse to escape is a character flaw. This is, to use the Latin: stercore de bovem, or, in the vulgate: bullshit. The idea that escape is inherently tainted is fundamentally an […]