Links from reading list. All disability related if you use your imagination a bit

[sqbr]

A new BBC modern day Sherlock Holmes series written by Stephen Moffat. To be honest the trailer didn't grab me (though the concept does) but Watson seems unambiguously disabled (he uses a cane and seems to have PTSD) which is cool as long as they don't got to a hinky place with it.

RSA Animate - Smile or Die Barbara Ehrenreich on the perils of seeing positive thinking as directly correlated to life success. To a certain extent the animation acts as captions(*) but since I couldn't find an actual transcript here's an article where she says similar things.

What Good Writers Still Get Wrong about Blind People

I am not Your Plot Device about fictional depictions of Multiple Personality Disorder and Dissociative Identity Disorder.

(*)I tried watching it with the sound off and it was actually pretty cool :)

Comments

[rainbow]

i looked at the plurality one and left a comment. thank you for the link!

[onceamy]

I am so going to be watching the Sherlock Holmes retake! But like you, I hope they don't screw it up :)