Many writers look for advice on writing marginalized characters. This blog is partially meant to serve as a resource for that. Below are more links that may be helpful when writing disabled and LGBTQ+ characters.
Queerness and Related Topics
Transgender and Non-Binary Characters
Writing Trans Characters: Names
Dysphoria Tips Masterpost
Information on Estrogen Hormone Therapy
Information on Testosterone Hormone Therapy
Binding 101
A History of Transphobia in the Medical Establishment
The History of “Thon,” the Forgotten Gender-Neutral Pronoun
Aromantic and Asexual Spectrum Characters
Allosexual Aromantic Erasure: A Guide
Compulsory Sexuality and Amatonormativity in Higher Education: A Photovoice Study with Asexual and Aromantic Students
I Am Not Voldemort: An Essay on Love and Amatonormativity
Writing Demisexual Characters (Without Invalidating Asexuality)
Asexuality and Consent Issues
How To Navigate A Casual Sexual Relationship As An Allo-Aro
An Asexual’s Guide To Sex
A Condensed History of Asexuals Arguing with Asexuals Over What Asexuality Is
“Where Were You When…?” A History of Asexual Inclusion (Part One)
Early Asexual Feminists: The Asexual History of Social Purity Activists and Spinsters
Somewhere in Between: A History of Demi and Grey Terminology
What is asexual history? The 19th and 20th Centuries.
a history of the terms used to describe people who are not asexual
Asexuality and Satanism
Multi-Oriented Characters
defining pansexuality over the years
History of Pansexuality
‘Bisexual oysters’: A diachronic corpus-based critical discourse analysis of bisexual representation in The Times between 1957 and 2017
A History of the Word “Bisexual” [CC]
Pomosexual Label History
Usage of Multisexual
Omnisexual and Polysexual Timelines
Pansexual in the 70s-90s
Polyamorous Characters and Relationship Anarchy
Relationship Anarchy Basics
Common Mistakes in Poly Relationships
Queer-Labelled Characters
What does queer mean?
Lesbian Characters
The Lesbian History Sourcebook: Love and Sex Between Women in Britain from 1780–1970
Boots of Leather, Slippers of Gold: The History of a Lesbian Community
Tomboys and Bachelor Girls: A Lesbian History of Post-War Britain 1945-71
Gay Male Characters
Early Gay Male Terminology in New York
A History of US Bear Subculture
Etymology of the Word “F-gg-t”
A Gay History of Britain: Love and Sex Between Men Since the Middle Ages
Characters with Split or Divergent Attraction
What Kind of Attraction? A History of the Split Attraction Model
An Actual History Of The Term “Split Attraction Model”
A Case for a Convergence-Divergence Spectrum
Characters in Queerplatonic Relationships
A Genealogy of Queerplatonic
Neurodivergencies and Disabilities
Dyspraxic Characters
Dyspraxia in Adults
Autistic Characters
Emotion Regulation, Personality and Social Adjustment in Children with Autism Spectrum Disorders
A Qualitative Exploration of the Female Experience of Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD)
Understanding Stimming
Special Interests and Hyperfixations [CC]
writing an autistic character when you are not autistic
Rules for writing autistic characters
What if “autistic” isn’t a term that exists in my story?
Empathy and Emotion
Plural Characters and Characters with Dissociative Disorders
Separating Fact from Fiction: An Empirical Examination of Six Myths About Dissociative Identity Disorder
Dissociation FAQs
The history of the term “fictive.”
Quick’n’Dirty Plural History: 1811-1980
The Etymology of “Multiple” as a Stand-Alone Adjective/Noun
Online and Offline Plural Groups, 1980-1995
The History of “Singlet”
The (Communal) History of System, Multiple, & Multiplicity
History of Dissociative Identity Disorder
The Progression of DID in the DSM PT 1 (DSM-II & DSM-III)
How to Survive in a Strange World After Sliding Into an Alternate Timeline
The Plurality Playbook
Blind Characters
PSA: the blind people face touching thing
Covering Blind Eyes
Trope Discussion: Blind Characters Covering Their Eyes
Writing a Blind or Visually Impaired Character
Lots O’ Tips On Writing Blindness
So, You Wanna Write A Blind Character?
Reading Raised Letters
Deaf and Hard of Hearing Characters
If you’re writing a d/Deaf or Hard of Hearing character…
Writing Deaf Character Tips
Club Foot Characters
How To Write Club Foot Characters
Characters Who Use Wheelchairs
Wheelchair Users in Fiction: Examining the Single Narrative
Epileptic Characters
Writing Characters With Epilepsy
Little People and Characters with Dwarfism
On Writing Good Dwarf Characters
Characters with Bipolar Disorder
What is Bipolar Disorder?
Misconceptions & What’s Wrong with Hollywood’s Portrayal
What to Call Bipolar Disorder in Fiction
Characters with Trauma Disorders
What is PTSD?
What the New York Times Gets Wrong About PTSD
PTSD and Triggers
C-PTSD
Non-Abused People Writing Abuse
Characters with Specific Phobias
What Are Specific Phobias?
Characters with Anxiety Disorders
What is Social Anxiety?
Asthmatic Characters
Tips for Writing Asthmatic Characters
Characters with Speech Impediments
Characters – and people – with speech impediments.
Writing Non-Disabled Characters
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