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by Emily Gillespie (Editor), Jennifer Lee Rossman (Editor)
With great powerchair comes great responsibility...
It's a bird, it's a plane, it's... accessibility!
You wouldn't like me when I'm out of spoons...
All too often, superhero media depicts disability as something to overcome on the journey to becoming a hero, or as a sign of villainy. It's time to make heroism accessible for everyone.
In these 15 stories, you'll meet winged wheelchair users, supernatural spoonies, guardians with glaucoma, and many more. These disabled superheroes fight villains as well as outdated ableist stereotypes, and show that anyone can be Mighty.
Author Biography
Emily Gillespie (she/they) is a mad and autistic author, disability activist, and professional daydreamer. Gillespie has a BA in Gender Equality and Social Justice an MA in Critical Disability Studies and a certificate in Creative Writing. They have volunteered and worked in the disability community as an activist, researcher, and facilitator for over ten years. Her writing explores themes of memory, identity and mental health journeys. They enjoy working in community spaces and examining individual and collective experiences. Dancing with Ghosts (Leaping Lion Books, 2017) is her first novel. Their poetry and short-stories can be found in several journals and anthologies. She is currently drafting her second grant funded novel about the failures of the emergency mental health system. In her spare time Emily enjoys reading, walking, dancing, swimming and people watching in cafes throughout Toronto. Emily can be found curled up in her bed full of unicorn plushies dreaming of a more just and loving world for all marginalized and disabled folks.
Jennifer Lee Rossman (she/they) is a queer, disabled, and autistic author and editor. They grew up befriending woodland creatures in the wilds around Oneonta, New York, but has since run away to the land of carousels and Rod Serling, also known as Binghamton.
Jennifer has over 50 short story publications, and is the coeditor of Love & Bubbles and Space Opera Libretti anthologies. You can find more of their work on their website http: //jenniferleerossman.blogspot.com, and follow them on Twitter @JenLRossman
