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/worksthere 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.htmlmight be
https://fanlore.org/wiki/Disability_Ficmy most cited
https://www.academia.edu/5521575/Shipping_disability_fanfiction_Disabled_fanfiction_producers_doing_disability_onlinepiece 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![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
