Hugo nominations and disability

[kestrell]

Enthusiastic cheers regarding the Hugo-nominated Uncanny Magazine's "Disabled People Destroy Science fiction" issue
https://uncannymagazine.com/uncanny-magazine-issue-24-disabled-people-destroy-science-fiction-cover-and-table-of-contents/
Note that the Kickstarter for this project won the
D Franklin Defying Doomsday Award, which recognizes
disability advocacy in science fiction literature.

I also want to send congratulations to Archive of Our Own on receiving a Hugo nomination
https://archiveofourown.org/admin_posts/12419

AO3 is where I spent most of last summer while I was shifting my sleep schedule from being an early bird to a night owl.

One thing that totally thrilled me was discovering how much
disability fanfic
https://archiveofourown.org/tags/Disability/works
there is now. And a lot of it is really good stuff that reflects the real-world struggles PWD have in the world.

Still, it came as a surprise to find that
this essay I wrote about disability fan fic
https://kestrell.livejournal.com/150847.html
might be
https://fanlore.org/wiki/Disability_Fic
my most cited
https://www.academia.edu/5521575/Shipping_disability_fanfiction_Disabled_fanfiction_producers_doing_disability_online

piece of media studies writing.
Note: that last article is in an inaccessible Power Point format and, yes, irony.

Another awesome intersection of disability and fan fic is the Harry Potter ASL project—you can see it in action here
https://thecreativepensieve.blogspot.com/2015/01/the-world-of-harry-potter-asl.html#main
and read a recent article about it
Harry Potter Signs in ASL
http://www.mugglenet.com/2019/01/harry-potter-signs-in-asl/
Also, there is a British group of deaf fans who taught Daniel Radcliffe how to do some signing
https://www.dailymoth.com/single-post/2017/03/13/Harry-Potter-Star-Daniel-Radcliffe-Signs-in-ASL-and-BSL