![]() The message sent to the disabled is: You’re out of the narrative, you’re secondary, you’re a burden. It’s that funny thing, where subverting femininity is powerful for the people who have always been forced into it… but for the people who have always been excluded, the powerful thing can be embracing it.Īs I’m disabled, as I say to groups of friends, “I can’t walk that far,” as I’m in too much pain to keep partying, I find myself worrying: I’m boring, too quiet, too stationary, irrelevant. ![]() I got into western martial arts and learned to fight with a rapier, fell in love with the longsword.īut since I’ve gotten too disabled to fight anymore, I… find myself coming back to that maiden in a tower. ![]() We weren’t just fainting maidens locked up in towers we could do anything men could do, be as strong or as physical or as violent. When I was younger and more abled, I was so fucking on board with the fantasy genre’s subversion of traditional femininity. ![]()
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