Fuck Yeah - Meta Rec!
janice_lester has posted her wonderful kink bingo meta on media representations of wheelchair users, specifically with regards to how to stop fucking it up. She does an excellent job of laying out specific issues with recent fails + 1 success (fandoms cited: X-Men: First Class, Supernatural season 5/6, Dark Angel, Heroes, Glee, Star Trek) AND offers helpful suggestions on how to Fix It while being amusing, insightful and informative. Because she is awesome like that.
The entire post is filled with practical information on how wheelchairs work, the differences between wheelchair types, customization options that make each wheelchair as unique as its user, hilarious picspams featuring inventive uses of a Captain Pike action figure, humorous speculations of the real world impacts of the poor fit/function shown by the worst offenders (quote: "it's just... clumsy and awkward and slow and she'd probably die if she went anywhere near a steep hill. "), and is informed by the perspective that wheelchairs are mobility devices that make the world accessible to their users and that is fucking awesome and deserves to be Done Well.
Go. Go now. Because Sexy Actors Deserve Sexy Wheelchairs and you deserve to read this post!!
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The entire post is filled with practical information on how wheelchairs work, the differences between wheelchair types, customization options that make each wheelchair as unique as its user, hilarious picspams featuring inventive uses of a Captain Pike action figure, humorous speculations of the real world impacts of the poor fit/function shown by the worst offenders (quote: "it's just... clumsy and awkward and slow and she'd probably die if she went anywhere near a steep hill. "), and is informed by the perspective that wheelchairs are mobility devices that make the world accessible to their users and that is fucking awesome and deserves to be Done Well.
Go. Go now. Because Sexy Actors Deserve Sexy Wheelchairs and you deserve to read this post!!
<3