Tag: Physical Disability
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His Dark Materials: Disability in “The Subtle Knife”
I’ve written about the second season of the TV adaptation of Philip Pullman’s His Dark Materials, so I think it’s only fair that I write about the second book. The show is a close adaptation in many ways, but it’s been a while since I read the trilogy, and I’m curious about how it compares.…
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Disability in “Iron Widow”
Iron Widow is a 2021 young adult fantasy novel by Xiran Jay Zhao (they/them). It’s an imaginative futuristic retelling of the story of China’s only female emperor, Wu Zetian. It’s particularly notable for Chinese and queer representation, but I’d like to highlight the disabled representation presented by Zetian.
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Disability in “Dragons: Race to the Edge” (Season One)
Dragons: Race to the Edge was an animated TV show based on DreamWorks’s How To Train Your Dragon films. It’s a Netflix original and ran from 2015 to 2018, with six seasons.
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Wonderstruck (2017)
Brian Selznick adapted his 2011 novel “Wonderstruck” into a screenplay, which then became a film directed by Todd Haynes. Rose, a deaf girl, was played by a Deaf actress, Millicent Simmonds; Ben, a boy who starts out deaf in one ear and later becomes fully deaf, was played by a hearing actor, Oakes Fegley.
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james bond’s best friend is an amputee and other things the government hid from you
In 2017, Dynamite Entertainment published the comic miniseries James Bond: Felix Leiter. This was the first time Leiter ever had a solo story. The cover of the collected edition shows Leiter holding a gun with two hands, with the more visible one being a (rather unrealistic-looking) prosthetic. One Amazon reviewer praises it for avoiding the…
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Deafness in Brian Selznick’s “Wonderstruck”
Wonderstruck is a 2011 “novel in words and pictures” about two deaf children, Ben and Rose, with their stories taking place fifty years apart. Rose’s story is told in pictures and Ben’s in words.
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Bran Davies vs. Disability Tropes
Susan Cooper’s The Dark is Rising Sequence is a fantasy novel series published between 1965 and 1977. Surprisingly, her books feature an albinistic protagonist, who makes his first appearance in the fourth book, The Grey King, originally published in 1975. Part of what made The Dark is Rising stand out to me when I read…
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All-Seeing: Disability & Female Friendships in B:WFA #32 and #33
DC and Webtoon’s collaborative comic Batman: Wayne Family Adventures has shown just how much the internet loves the Batfamily’s domestic dynamics. A recent two-part episode centered on the Batgirls showed me why I, personally, love it.
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His Dark Materials Season 2 vs. Disability Tropes
His Dark Materials is a middle-grade fantasy book series and, more recently, an HBO TV series. It follows Lyra Silvertongue’s quest across worlds to understand Dust – her world’s name for dark matter.
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kid blink & disability (newsies)
you ever just have something and need to talk about it but you can’t figure out how? that’s me right now. I don’t think anyone will really mind if I just rephrase things I’ve said before on Discord and see where that takes me, right?