Disability is often overlooked and ignored in fandom, and disabled characters often don’t get the love they deserve. We want to change that.
In the spirit of representation and appreciation events such as femslash february and repfest, we would like to take the whole month of July to put on a panfandom celebration of disabled characters.
Any fanwork is welcome! Just tag your contributions with #disabilityfest.
Please spread the word by reblogging this, so more people can know about #disabilityfest.
If you have any questions, please don’t hesitate to ask.
This is wonderful and all but what the fuck disability did Angel have? Did I completely miss something my whole 17 years of loving that character/musical?
angel is HIV positive, which is a chronic/terminal illness.
Still see it as a disease not a disability but whatever makes your boat float
….you are aware that diseases are disabilities???
I don’t know how comfortable I am with a disease being equated to a disability. Is that really helping our cause?
as far as i’m concerned, yes. any disease like cancer, chron’s, MS, parkinson’s, or HIV/AIDS are considered chronic or terminal, and are just as debilitating as any other disability, and people who are chronically/terminally ill have every right to consider themselves disabled, and are just as important as any other person in the disabled ‘community’.
From a Q&A on what is and is not covered by the American Disabilities Act: “An individual with epilepsy, paralysis, HIV infection, AIDS, a substantial hearing or visual impairment, mental retardation, or a specific learning disability is covered, but an individual with a minor, nonchronic condition of short duration, such as a sprain, broken limb, or the flu, generally would not be covered.”
Chronic illnesses that interfere, or can interfere, with daily life are covered by the ADA.
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