davidgillon: Dina Meyer as Oracle, sitting a manual chair in front of a clock face (Wheelchair)

I've finally written my second blog in response to SF Signal/Amy Sterling-Casil's "We Are All Disabled" (aka the utter car-crash).

SF/F and the Politics of Disability

TLDR: Disability exists within a political context Sterling-Casil couldn't be bothered to research

Trigger warnings for discussions of Ableism/Disablism and Aktion T4.

davidgillon: Text: You can take a heroic last stand against the forces of darkness. Or you can not die. It's entirely up to you" (Heroic Last Stand)

Amy Sterling Casil has responded to the criticism of her "We are all disabled" post at SF Signal, with an 'apology' on her own blog.

I put 'apology' in inverted commas, because rather than simply saying "I'm Sorry, I Fucked Up", she spends 2300 words explaining how we all misunderstood her (while explaining she meant exactly what she said), and people are being nasty and horrible and disablist* to her for not accepting empathy is totally a disability, and the people being nasty are no different to the guy who raped her or the one who accused her of killing her child when they died in an accident.

She throws a PTSD diagnosis into the ring most of the way through, and I'm not sure if what I'm reading is some sort of  PTSD hypervigilance reaction, or just utter narcissism.

It's bad enough in what it does say about disability I think I need to reply, but Is it just me? Am I reading it wrong?

Dear Individuals on the ASD Spectrum and Others: I am Sorry



* I've found five blog responses to "We Are All Disabled" so far, four are by people who are either disabled, couid legitimately claim to be disabled, but don't, or who have disabled family members (and the other says 'I have more sense than to shoot my mouth off about stuff I don't know'). Several of those posts, including mine, do say empathy is not a disability, but then go on to say she may well be disabled in some more conventional manner and just expressing it in a particularly weird way.
 

davidgillon: A pair of crutches, hanging from coat hooks, reflected in a mirror (Default)
I noticed a tweet flashing past last night indicating activist and fan Elsa Henry (@snarkbat) was seriously pissed off with something. So I went to check what, and found it was a new post on SF Signal, the SF/F news/magazine site. It was in their 'Special Needs in Strange Worlds' column (a title I loathe) and it was the most utterly bizarre and offensive post I've seen in a long time.

Content warnings for: cure narratives, erasure, offensive stereotyping (especially of autism) magical crips, locking the crip in the attic, and generally being utterly 'special' about us. )

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