Rather You Than Me
Jun. 14th, 2016 10:22 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
davidgillonI finally wrote the blog on the Me Before You controversy I've been intending to write for several weeks.
'Finally' because I thought a lot about how I should do it, as the obvious approach to take as both disabled writer and disability activist collides head-on with the advice to us as baby writers to never do anything remotely controversial on the net (given agents and publishers will hunt your web-presence down as a form of due diligence). In the end I went with the obvious approach, because not taking apart how the writing and filming process systematically failed disabled people, and especially wheelchair users, seemed like a betrayal.
There's a lot of embedded links, so I'll link to it in place rather than reproduce it here: Rather You Than Me
CW for extended discussion of euthanasia and disablist fuckwittery
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Date: 2016-06-15 03:23 am (UTC)1) On DW under a friends lock ?
2) On Facebook, friends-only access setting ?
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Date: 2016-06-15 04:08 pm (UTC)