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3:40pm May 4, 2014

patternsmaybe:

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#WeNeedDiverseBooks so we can stop the equation of disabled body + fiction = death or cure. Stop killing me when you can’t fix me. 

I really like books by Jean Little for exactly this reason. She explicitly wrote them to be books where the disabled characters aren’t cured and aren’t inspiration porn and do things besides be disabled.

They also aren’t books that exist in order to build empathy or educate normal kids about disability.

And she wrote them in large part because the kids she taught had no representation. 

They’re not perfect, but I’ve never seen any books with disabled kids in them that were better.

I vaguely remember a couple of Australian kids’  books about a girl who couldn’t talk, who used sign language (wasn’t deaf though), and had a parrot?  Or something.  Anyway, she always seemed to be written just as a person, and that stood out to me.

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    That moment when miracle cures and death combine in one novel.
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