"Space to Dream": Queer Speculative Disability Narratives & Their Liberatory Value

Further Reading

Adult Novels
  1. Mask of Shadows & Ruin of Stars by Linsey Miller
  2. Gideon the Ninth & Harrow the Ninth by Tasmyn Muir
  3. The Bone Shard Daughter by Andrea Stewart
  4. False Hearts by Laura Lam 
  5. Ancillary Justice by Ann Leckie
  6. Silver in the Wood Duology by Emily Tesh
  7. The Four Profound Weaves by R.B. Lemberg
  8. The Obsidian Tower by Melissa Caruso
  9. Witchmark, Stormsong, & Soulstar by C.L. Polk

Young Adult Novels
  1. Dreadnought & Sovereign by April Daniels 
  2. Six of Crows Duology by Leigh Bardugo 
  3. Pantomime, Shadowplay, & Masquerade by Laura Lam 
  4. Girls of Paper & Fire by Natasha Ngan
  5. The Grief Keeper by Alexandra Villasante
  6. Miss Meteor by Tehlor Kay Mejia and Anna-Marie McLemore
  7. The Never Tilting World Duology by Rin Chupeco

Short Story Collections
  1. Accessing the Future edited by Kathryn Allan and Djibril Al-Ayad
  2. Beyond Binary: Genderqueer and Sexually Fluid Speculative Fiction edited by Brit Mandelo
  3. A People's Future of the United States: Speculative Fiction by 25 Extraordinary Writers edited by Victor LaValle and John Joseph Adams
  4. Her Body and Other Parties by Carmen Maria Machado
  5. Salt Slow by Julia Armfield
  6. Octavia's Brood: Science Fiction From Social Justice Movements edited by Adrienne Maree Brown and Walidah Imarisha
  7. New Suns: Speculative Fiction by People of Color edited by Nisi Shawl 
  8. Things to Do When You're Goth in the Country by Chavisa Woods

Nonfiction Books
  1. In the Dream House by Carmen Maria Machado
  2. Exile and Pride by Eli Clare
  3. Brilliant Imperfection by Eli Clare
  4. Narrative Prosthesis by David Mitchell and Sharon Snyder
  5. Feminist, Queer, Crip by Alison Kafer
  6. Bodyminds Reimagined: (Dis)ability, Race, and Gender in Black Women’s Speculative Fiction by Sami Schalk
  7. Death, Disability, and the Superhero: The Silver Age and Beyond by Jose Alaniz
  8. Crip Theory: Cultural Signs of Queerness and Disability by Robert McRuer
  9. Cruising Utopia: The Then and There of Queer Futurity by Jose Munoz
  10. Disabled Futures: A Framework for Radical Inclusion by Milo W. Obourn
  11. Broken Places, Outer Spaces by Nnedi Okorafor
  12. I Hope We Choose Love: A Trans Girl’s Notes From The End of The World by Kai Cheng Thom
  13. Disability Theory by Tobin Siebers
  14. Animacies by Mel Chen
  15. Illness as Metaphor by Susan Sontag

Essays
  1. "Necropolitics" by Achille Mbembe
  2. "Cyborg Manfiesto" by Donna Haraway
  3. "Compulsory Able-bodiedness" by Robert McRuer
  4. “Speculative Fictions of Slavery” by Madhu Dubey
  5. “Reevaluating the Supercrip” by Sami Schalk 
  6. “Black Feminist Futurity: From Survival Rhetoric to Radical Speculation” by Caitlin Gunn

Pedagogy Resources
  1. Pedagogy of the Oppressed by Paulo Friere
  2. Teaching to Transgress by bell hooks 
  3. We Want to Do More Than Survive: Abolitionist Teaching and the Pursuit of Educational Freedom by Bettina L. Love
  4. Mad at School: Rhetorics of Mental Disability and Academic Life by Margaret Price
  5. “Disability Justice, White Supremacy, and Harm Reduction Pedagogy: Enacting Anti-Racist Crip Teaching” by Samuel Z. Shelton

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