Disability Culture in Comics: Finding and Telling Our Own Stories Our Own Ways

With the advent of graphic medicine and indie publishing, disability representation in comics has moved beyond Professor X, Oracle, Daredevil, and Doc Ock into the realm of #OwnVoices and #NothingAboutUs. People are telling their own stories about their own complicated messy intersectional lives with lived experiences that include a diversity of experiences — adaptive sports, autism, anxiety, bipolar, diabetes, epilepsy, spina bifida, wheelchair life, and much more. What do these small press and independently published disability comics look like, and how do you find them? How do they show disability culture and community? Are they just for kids? (Spoiler: NO! But some are.) Are they being used in academia? (Spoiler: YES! And in therapy, too!) These questions and more will be answered in this presentation.

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