#meda kahn

[femslashrevolution]

Title: Difference of Opinion

Creator: Meda Kahn

Length: 5139 words; also has a podcast reading at 37 minutes

Rating: Not rated, likely Teen but not for sexual reasons

Summary: “A romance conducted in asides and ellipses, a love story that never was.” A doomed relationship told in first-person, from the perspective of a developmentally disabled janitor on a space station.

Warnings: Self harm, ableist violence, eugenics

Submitter comments: Heed the warnings, but: disabled sci-fi-horror femslash is femslash. The story is a gut-punch.

[disabilityreviews]

So I'm not disabled in any way myself and my friend, who is disabled, are both writing a novel with a character based on her. It's meant to be a social commentary on ableism in our culture. My friend wants me to do most of the writing since she says she ain't too good at storytelling, but can you point me to some stories about disabled characters written by disabled authors? I just want to see how not to fuck up on portrayal.

I’m sure I’m late after not logging into tumblr for years, but I’m a fan of Meda Kahn’s Difference of Opinion

http://strangehorizons.com/fiction/difference-of-opinion/

[flyingpurplepizzaeater]

hey rec me stuff with disabled people in it. i’ll go first: the sisters of invention, the other sister, difference of opinion by meda kahn, where the wind blows down the gap, chrysalis by malcolm schmitz, accidents of nature by harriet mcbryde johnson, dave hingsburger, hole, owl city.

[zeromorph]

it's been the better part of a year since I read it but I probably think about Difference of Opinion by Meda Kahn every week

[rivkat]

Excellent short story (via Asking the Wrong Questions)