FWD: Guest Ableist Word Profile: Crutch

[sasha_feather]

Or, hey look I wrote something!

Guest Ableist Word Profile: Crutch at FWD/Feminists with Disabilities

Comments

[antarcticlust.livejournal.com]

That's a terrific post! The photo threw me off a bit because it made me think it was supposed to be a picture of you. :)

[sasha-feather.livejournal.com]

Hahah! Dr. Kerry Weaver from ER is a disabled lesbian physician; she even came out later in life. In later seasons the writers fell into some of the problematic angry-making tropes for both disabled characters and queer characters with her, but at least she existed.

[antarcticlust.livejournal.com]

Oh, cool - so she's a recognizable character and not a stock photo.

Oooh...disability in television and film would be a cool post...and a cool thesis! I wonder if it's been done?

[sasha-feather.livejournal.com]

One thing I realize I should have coded into the post was a caption, not just a title tag for the image (if you mouse over the image you should be able to see the title tag, but that might not work in all browsers). Maybe I will ask the FWD people if that can be added in.

I think that kestrell did a thesis on disability and SF/F actually; I haven't read it but she has a bibliography online: http://www.panix.com/~kestrell/DecloakingDisabilityBiblio.html

[sasha-feather.livejournal.com]

Also, thanks for pointing that out! Because the image is totally confusing out of context. I'm going to email my contact now and see if a caption can be added. :)