Third and final edition of the Disability Pride Flag Audio Fiction Calendar. Click for the first, second, and related BINGO. Plus as an amazing bonus, @rainbownestmedia shared another calendar here. Next week: my notes in one neat overview :)
Information (= sometimes spoilers) below
Two Thousand and Late - Harper was disabled by COVID-19
I Am In Eskew - Depression
Sojourners' Trails - Mobility aids & prosthetic
The Way We Haunt Now - Lota is a ghost and wheelchair user
Someone Dies In This Elevator - Hot Weels episode. Shannon uses a manual wheelchair and Waverly uses a powered wheelchair.
Surcease - Mental health treatment/facility is central to the story. Wheelchair user
Ethics Town - Noah Morley is dyslexic
Earth Eclipsed - One of characters becomes blind
Petrified
Forgive Me! - Margaret has kleptomania
Secret of St. Kilda - Character with chronic pain
Camp Here And There - Sydney is autistic and chronically ill, with chronic pain, respiratory/use of an inhaler, experiences psychotic episodes.
We’re Alive - Several disabled characters
Soul Operator - Many disabled characters, including the MC
Within the Wires - (S3) Post-natal depression. (S8) The narrator is physically disabled with limited mobility and chronic pain.
October’s Children - Physically disabled lead
Things Unsaid - A deaf main character and a deaf supporting character.
What Will Be Here? - Kei is disabled
Among the Stacks - Tale 6 has a character with adhd-d
Before I Forget (Again) - Many of the characters are neurodiverse in some way- Cielle and Danny are ADHD, Larry is autistic, and Bea is AuDHD. Without spoiling anything major, one main character will have a chronic illness by the end of season 1.
The Sterling Girl - Etta is autistic (semi-verbal). Sable is autistic and ADHD, and also has a lazy eye which she wears a monocle for. Penny is autistic. Oscar is autistic and ADHD. The narrator is autistic.
Our Fair City - Clear Skies Tim is injured and becomes physically disabled (loss of mobility). Loamy loses an arm and later starts using a supernatural prosthetic.
Human Error - Multiple HoH/Deaf characters. Billie has anxiety. Most of not all of the characters have PTSD
Hi Nay - Mari Datuin has chronic pain
Monstrous Agonies - Some episodes feature disability narratives. Features DID (Note: some systems reject the pathologization of plurality but may still consider it a disability under the social model, outside of DID. Some systems don’t consider it a disability at all, similar to Deafness)
Arden - Pamela Pink has depression, Rosalind Ursula has type 1 bipolar disorder. Dana Hamill (S2) has bipolar.
The Penumbra Podcast - (Juno Steel) Juno Steel loses an eye and learning to navigate this is a long-term story element. Buddy Aurinko has narcissistic personality disorder and is physically disabled from radiation sickness. Vespa Ilkay needs daily medication to prevent severe psychotic episodes with hallucinations. (Second Citadel) Sir Marc is a disabled knight; ableism and institutional barriers are important themes to the setting.
Levian - Tanathea Tellari has a history of psychiatric illness (described with in-world terms)
SCP Research Archives - Betram has an anomalous disability, gets migraines, and they suffer from insomnia.
Midst - Moc Weepe has a (supernatural/in-world) medical condition that requires regular treatment.
Vesta Clinic - The space clinic providing medical care is central to the story. Disability narratives included
44 for the audio dramas if it hasn’t been asked yet!!
Yeah, that's Earth Eclipsed! It's this story about a society that seems utopic, until the engineer of the new scientific future gets kidnapped by space mercs and has to take a hard look at her assumptions about utopia. The sound design on this one is flawless, and it's made by our buddies from the Apollo app! (If you ever need a new audio drama, start on Apollo, it's only got fiction podcasts and it's great for discovery.)
Send in a number between 1 and 215 and Hannah will recommend an Audio Drama!
So… @dragons-in-spaceee got me addicted to The Strange Case of Starship Iris who’s i finished in less than 2 days… and now I’m listening to Earth Eclipsed and on episode 5… and it’s amazing.
