#disabilityinkidlit

[astrakiseki]

Why did my activity spike...

Oh.  Welp.

[readyalit-blog]

I'm sorry to bug you, but would you happen to know of any books with a blind main character? All the ones I've been finding are usually adult romance novels :/ Thank you in advance if you can help!

The only one I can think of is Eric Lindstrom’s Not If I See You First, which JUST came out a few weeks ago. Maybe @disabilityinkidlit has some more recommendations?[EDIT] intertwiningfantasy just sent this ask in -- thanks, sarena!

she is not invisible by marcus sedgwick is a ya novel featuring a blind protagonist, and as far as i remember, there's no romance in it!

[andreashettle]

“Because I Am Loved”: Children’s Book Author B. Keith Fulton Shares New Book About His Disabled Sister Shauna - Ramp Your Voice!

In October, I was contacted by renowned writer and illustrator Jerry Craft about a children’s book he illustrated, Shauna, that featured a disabled girl of color protagonist.

This is below their usual age range so I know they can’t review the book, but I am tagging them just for their awareness:  @disabilityinkidlit

[myjackfry-blog-blog]

http://www.myjackfry.com/writerspodcast/

New podcast. 

I have a massive rant about how terrible and lazy some kids tv is and how brilliantly other kids shows are doing, and some disability and trans stuff. 

and I give a few minutes to how book publishing is going, since that’s the point of the show. 

[kiwimodern09]

Fuck you too

Hearing the lady from church say how we must, "pray and beg God to send us physically fit and perfect children."

[shadesofmauve]

Reviews, guest posts, and discussions about the portrayal of disabilities in MG/YA fiction

Sorry for the icky green tumblr-link text, but a friend just pointed out this blog, and it made me very happy!

In particular, there's an essay by a woman with MD that hits at exactly why I started writing aStSHB:

My body felt wholly worthless.

Even when I’d look in the mirror and think I looked passable, or even good. Even at prom, when I thought I looked gorgeous (not a word I used lightly with myself), it was hard to imagine anyone else would think so. It was impossible to imagine anyone finding me desirable. Impossible to imagine anyone looking at me and being physically attracted to me.

...I was truly terrified someone was going to figure me out, somehow. Since no one else expected me to be sexual, to have sexual desires, to act in a sexual way, when I did I felt like a fraud. Like I was a deluded kid playing at something explicitly not meant for me.

Just, ugh, yes, that. That's why I get so freaking angry at all the casual stupidity surrounding Joker -- because the above author's experiences aren't uncommon.

YA lit is arguably the most important place for this kind of representation, since any "I don't fit" "I'm not wanted" "I'm not right" is bound to be magnified by a huge factor as a teen, when most people are going through some of that anyway. Of course, a lot of YA age readers DO read from the adult section (I sure did), and vice versa, so while there's a question of aim and primary audience, the actual audience is broader in both counts.

Anyway.

There's also a tumblr, though the main blog is on wordpress.

[haphazarme]

This upcoming blog sounds promising: discussion of the depictions of disability in middle grade and young adult books.