Physical Disability


Wonder (Wonder, #1)
Six of Crows (Six of Crows, #1)
The War That Saved My Life (The War That Saved My Life, #1)
Out of My Mind (Out of My Mind, #1)
Get a Life, Chloe Brown (The Brown Sisters, #1)
Always Only You (Bergman Brothers, #2)
A Curse So Dark and Lonely (Cursebreakers, #1)
El Deafo
Crooked Kingdom (Six of Crows, #2)
Me Before You (Me Before You, #1)
Romancing the Duke (Castles Ever After, #1)
Everything, Everything
Otherbound
Gathering Blue (The Giver, #2)
Out on a Limb (Out, #1)
With emancipation comes the opening up of new possibilities for challenging assumptions over women's appearance and, more radically, the gender order itself. Ventura (She-Thing) comes not only to accept her new "intragender" status but to see it as advantageous -- for dealing with her misandry, for personal growth, and even for becoming a person capable of giving and accepting love. ...more
Jose Alaniz, Death, Disability, and the Superhero: The Silver Age and Beyond

The stereotype of the supercrip, in the eyes of its critics, represents a sort of overachieving, overdetermined self-enfreakment that distracts from the lived daily reality of most disabled people.
Jose Alaniz, Death, Disability, and the Superhero: The Silver Age and Beyond

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