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Aparna Sachdev Nov 7, 2023

#til about the Fries test: "Does a work have more than one disabled character? Do the disabled characters have their own narrative purpose other than the education and profit of a nondisabled character? Is the character’s disability not eradicated either by curing or killing?"
Just been arrowing through a crowdsourced list of fiction with decent disability representation that passes the Fries test, and low and behold... a lot of them are #ScienceFiction, #SpeculativeFiction and #fantasy . Wonder what that says about us? Linking to the list, for people who might be interested:
https://nicolagriffith.com/fiction-that-passes-the-fries-test/
#reading #books #bookstodon #BookStadon #Disability #DisabilityLiterature #DisabilityStudies

Fiction that passes the Fries Test

Current total: 73 The Fries Test for fiction asks: Does a work have more than one disabled character? Do the disabled characters have their own narrative purpose other than the education and profit…

Nicola Griffith

ParanoidProf Aug 2, 2023

I'm still working to incorporate more disability lit into my reading. Being Seen recounts the experience of being deafblind but also includes analysis of disability representation in TV, film, SciFi, and Fantasy. Recommended.

#DisabilityLit #DisabilityLiterature #BeingSeen

ParanoidProf Jul 5, 2023

Troubled by ableism in our society, I've begun reading some disability lit. Autobiography of a Face is considered a classic, a memoir in which Grealy traces her sense of self after losing half her jaw to cancer as a child. Powerful.

#DisabilityLit #disabilityliterature #LucyGrealy