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Bones is back!

elettaria wrote in crip_crit Sep 24, 2010 22:07

( Spoiler for 6.01 )

aspergers, bones

Saved! And Other Thoughts

lara_everlong wrote in crip_crit Aug 02, 2010 09:43

Wow, this community is pretty cool. I'm glad I found it ( Read more... )

saved!, ab actors playing disabled characters, wheelchairs

YA books with disabled characters (crossposted)

haddayr wrote in crip_crit Jul 17, 2010 10:18

I am looking for some that aren't hateful, disablist crap that, for instance, say that a girl in an iron lung should want to die and we're all so relieved when she DOES die.

Anyone with a few good recos?

Writing Contest: Towards an Accessible Future (crossposted)

haddayr wrote in crip_crit Jun 09, 2010 11:24

I hope this is okay for this community; I thought it would interest folks ( Read more... )

Frederick Fairlie: could you really call that man healthy?

elettaria wrote in crip_crit May 18, 2010 11:59

( Spoilers for Collins' 'The Woman in White' )

poor miss finch, faking illness, wilkie collins, hypochondria, me/cfids, the woman in white

Implicit mental illness

arctowardthesun wrote in crip_crit May 17, 2010 16:02

What do people think about the portrayal of characters that seem to have a mental illness that is never actually described or talked about?

( Why do i ask? (spoilers for SGU season 1 episode 10) )

stargate universe, mental illness

Glee's Wheels Episode

haddayr wrote in crip_crit May 17, 2010 11:14

When it first came out, I wrote a criticism of it, which I thought I'd post here, as well. The original post was here (with a threat for folks who thought you couldn't subject TV to cultural criticism I will dispense with for this community):

http://haddayr.livejournal.com/583821.html

( GleeFail. Oh. My. God. )

downs syndrome, glee, faking illness, stammer, wheelchairs

The Regeneration trilogy: someone who got it right for once!

elettaria wrote in crip_crit May 11, 2010 10:05

If you're interested in novels about WW1, or reading something where disability is well handled for once, try Pat Barker's highly-praised Regeneration trilogy. She's taken real events and people and added imaginary ones, so that the war poet Siegfried Sassoon and the psychiatrist and anthropologist Dr William Rivers are leading characters (there's ( Read more... )

shell shock, regeneration, stammer, ptsd, pat barker

Le Guin and empathy

elettaria wrote in crip_crit May 05, 2010 19:59

*looks around shiftily* I really shouldn't collude in breaking copyright, but the story is up on someone else's website anyway, so I thought I'd put it up here for general discussion. But do be good creatures and buy the book if you like it! This is a follow-up to the discussion on telepathy as disability in the Sookie Stackhouse novels/True ( Read more... )

short story, le guin, madness, fear, autism, empathy, mental illness, science fiction

Mod appearance

elettaria wrote in crip_crit May 05, 2010 11:23

Hello everyone! Glad to see we're acquiring members so fast. Feel free to pimp this community in your own journal or in other communities, the more the merrier. I'll probably run around some of the lit communities later today. I don't know any of the communities for films or TV shows, though, so if you want to mention this community there it'd ( Read more... )

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