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If you don't know who Ada Palmer is, you should check out
Ex Urbe, her blog
https://adapalmer.com/blog-ex-urbe/
She just wrote an essay titled "Censorship and Genre Fiction: Let's Broaden Our Broader Reality," published in the most recent issue of Uncanny Magazine
https://uncannymagazine.com/article/censorship-and-genre-fiction-lets-broaden-our-broader-reality/
She is a historian, a science fiction writer, and
a disability advocate, and she is adept at showing how what might be considered to be unrelated aspects intersect, as when she won last year's John W. Campbell Award for best new writer, and made a great speech about being creative while living with chronic pain
https://www.exurbe.com/thoughts-on-a-bad-pain-day-and-how-teamwork-accumulates/
She has also spent the past couple of years collaborating with Cory Doctorow and historian Adrian Johns on censorship and infomation control in history
https://www.exurbe.com/censorship-project-a-brief-history-of-book-burning/
On a related note, there is another constellation of science fiction and disability coming up this weekend on
TorCon
https://www.tor.com/2020/06/01/announcing-torcon-a-virtual-books-convention/
which on Sunday, June 14, at 7 p.m. will feature
Cory Doctorow and Nnedi Okorafor in conversation
https://www.crowdcast.io/e/DoctorowOkorafor/register?utm_campaign=TorCon&utm_source=TorDotCom&utm_medium=allsources
Nnedi Okorafor is an award-winning science fiction author, but she also wrote about creativity and disability in last year's memoir, _Broken Places and Outer Spaces: Finding Creativity in the Unexpected_ (available on Bookshare).
Here she is in a related Ted Talk
https://ideas.ted.com/learning-to-fly-how-a-hospital-stay-helped-nnedi-okorafor-find-herself-as-a-writer/
Ex Urbe, her blog
https://adapalmer.com/blog-ex-urbe/
She just wrote an essay titled "Censorship and Genre Fiction: Let's Broaden Our Broader Reality," published in the most recent issue of Uncanny Magazine
https://uncannymagazine.com/article/censorship-and-genre-fiction-lets-broaden-our-broader-reality/
She is a historian, a science fiction writer, and
a disability advocate, and she is adept at showing how what might be considered to be unrelated aspects intersect, as when she won last year's John W. Campbell Award for best new writer, and made a great speech about being creative while living with chronic pain
https://www.exurbe.com/thoughts-on-a-bad-pain-day-and-how-teamwork-accumulates/
She has also spent the past couple of years collaborating with Cory Doctorow and historian Adrian Johns on censorship and infomation control in history
https://www.exurbe.com/censorship-project-a-brief-history-of-book-burning/
On a related note, there is another constellation of science fiction and disability coming up this weekend on
TorCon
https://www.tor.com/2020/06/01/announcing-torcon-a-virtual-books-convention/
which on Sunday, June 14, at 7 p.m. will feature
Cory Doctorow and Nnedi Okorafor in conversation
https://www.crowdcast.io/e/DoctorowOkorafor/register?utm_campaign=TorCon&utm_source=TorDotCom&utm_medium=allsources
Nnedi Okorafor is an award-winning science fiction author, but she also wrote about creativity and disability in last year's memoir, _Broken Places and Outer Spaces: Finding Creativity in the Unexpected_ (available on Bookshare).
Here she is in a related Ted Talk
https://ideas.ted.com/learning-to-fly-how-a-hospital-stay-helped-nnedi-okorafor-find-herself-as-a-writer/
