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yourartmatters-itswhatgotmehere · 2 years

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Representation matters!-in TV/MOVIES.

i am, obviously, not able to type ALL here, but the ones i know and love dearly+the ones I think are most important for the viewers♥- I WILL KEEP UPDATING THIS WHEN NEEDED♥) +obvi not in any important-order!!

1. BISEXUAL-BI-REPRESENTATION (as a bi person myself I still think this should be represented more in media everywhere(when it’s done right!))

-bi boys: Jesper Fahey (Shadow And Bone), Nick Nelson (Heartstopper), Alex Claremont-Diaz (RWRB-Red White & Royal Blue), Timmy Andrews (The Craft: Legacy), Malakai Mitchell (Heartbreak High), Magnus Bane (Shadowhunters), Gar Logan-BeastBoy(DCTitans), Aki Menzies (GossipGirlHBOMax),, Salem Saberhagen (SabrinaTheTeenageWitch-90s), Li Shang (Mulan1998), Lucifer (Lucifer), Jeremiah Fisher (The Summer I Turned Pretty), Gael Martinez (Good Trouble), Michael Guerin (Roswell, New Mexico), Evan "Buck" Buckley (9-1-1), Dustin ‘Dusty’ Reid (Heartbreak High),

- bi girls: Anna Taggaro (OTH-One Tree Hill), (and to me Peyton Sawyer, Brooke Davis(the actress said it so it’s canon!), Rachel Gatina (OTH-One Tree Hill), Nina Zenik (Shadow And Bone), AJ Campos (Crush2022), Hope Mikaelson (TO-Legacies), Ava Silva (Warrior Nun), Katherine "Kitty" Song-Covey (XO Kitty), Missy Beckett (Heartbreak High), Yasmina-Yaz Fadoula (JWCC- Jurassic World: Camp Cretaceous), Casey Gardner (Atypical), Abby(Atypical), Beatrix "Bird" Castro (Finding Carter), Marissa Cooper (The O.C), Alex Kelly (The O.C), Aneesa Qureshi (Never Have I Ever), Lake Meriwether (Love, Victor), Vada Cavell (TheFallout-2021), Eve (Lucifer), Stella Yamada (Lemonade Mouth 2011), Sahar Zahid (Heartstopper (sinceS2) ), Nora Holleran (RWRB-Red White & Royal Blue), Haley Dunphy (Modern Family), Eleanor Henstridge (The Royals), Maureen Johnson (Rent the musical), Anthea (Shazam! Fury of the Gods), Daphne Blake (Scooby Doo), Sue Gilbert (Dickinson), Toni Topaz (Riverdale), Marie Moreau (Gen V), Jackie (Love Lies Bleeding)

(for an epic and very queer historical-fiction tv show watch MARY & GEORGE !!)

1b. PANSEXUAL-PAN-REPRESENTATION

Max Wolfe (GossipGirlHBOMax), Mazikeen (Lucifer), Mal (Descendants Movies), Josie Saltzman (Legacies,TO,TVD), Penelope Park (Legacies), Klaus Hargreeves (The Umbrella Academy), Isabel (Bottoms 2023), Karen Shetty (Mean Girls 2024),

(for an epic and very queer historical-fiction tv show watch MARY & GEORGE !!)

1c. ASEXUAL/ ACE REPRESENTATION

Raphael Santiago (Shadowhunters), Isaac Henderson (Heartstopper), Tolya Yul-Bataar (ShadowAndBone-Grishaverse), Tori Spring (Heartstopper), Douglas ‘Cash’ Piggott (Heartbreak High),

(for an epic and very queer historical-fiction tv show watch MARY & GEORGE !!)

2. GAY/ LESBIAN REPRESENTATION

-gay: Wylan Hendriks/Wylan Van Eck (Shadow And Bone), Prince Henry Fox (RWRB-Red White & Royal Blue), Jack McPhee (Dawson’s Creek), Alec Lightwood (Shadowhunters), Simon Spier (Love,Simon2018), Victor Salazar (Love,Victor), Benji Campbell (Love,Victor), Rahim (Love,Victor), Charlie Spring (Heartstopper), Brimsley and Reynolds (OueenCharlotte-BridgertonSpinoff), Eric Van Der Woodsen (Gossip Girl), Quincy “Q” Shabazian (XOKitty), Damian Hubbard (Mean Girls 2024), Nick Feinstein (The Fallout 2021),

-lesbian: Beatrice (Warrior Nun), Shotgun Mary (Warrior Nun), Diana Berrigan(White Collar), Fabiola Torres (Never Have I Ever), Ellie Chu (The Half Of It), Emily Fields (Pretty Little Liars), Maxine Baker (Ginny & Georgia), Izzie Taylor (Atypical), Calliope "Cal" Burns (First Kill), Juliette Fairmont (First Kill), Tara Jones (Heartstopper), Darcy Olsson (Heartstopper), Mia Karp (Vampire Academy), Meredith Beckham (Vampire Academy), Tamar Kir-Bataar (Shadow And Bone), Nadia Zhabin (Shadow And Bone), Simone Jackson (DaisyJonesAndTheSix), Yuri Han (XO Kitty), PJ and Josie (Bottoms 2023), Hazel Callahan (Bottoms 2023), Madison (Finding Carter), Kit Tanthalos (Willow), Jade (Willow), Sabina Wilson (Charlie’s Angels 2019), Velma Dinkley (Scooby Doo), Winnie Black (Miller’s Girl), Janis ‘Imi’ike (Mean Girls 2024), Emily Dickinson (Dickinson), Sasha So (Heartbreak High),

(for an epic and very queer historical-fiction tv show watch MARY & GEORGE !!)

3. TRANSGENDER PEOPLE REPRESENTATION

-Elle Argent (Heartstopper), Anybodys (West Side Story 2021), Luna La (GossipGirlHBOMax), Chanel (Warrior Nun), Naomi (Heartstopper), Felix (Heartstopper), Amy (RWRB-Red, White & Royal Blue), Ash Romero (Pretty Little Liars:Original Sin),

4. Non-Binary/Genderqueer/ (they/them) Representation

-Darren Rivers (Heartbreak High), Addison (Never Have I Ever), Klaus Hargreeves (The Umbrella Academy), Jordan Li (Gen V), (we seriously lack the representation in popular and mostly-watched shows and movies for teenagers and young adults here tho),

5. ASTHMA REPRESENTATION

-I don’t see this represented enough in TV or Movies for Young Adults, nor Kids.

5b. DISABLED CHARACTERS REPRESENTATION:

Kaz Brekker & Jesper Fahey & Wylan Van Eck, Genya Safin(Shadow And Bone) , Rebecca Hall-Yoshida (Never Have I Ever) +MORE BELOW(and above in this entire post♥):

6. EPILEPSY REPRESENTATION

Nathan Walter (My Life with The Walter Boys),

6b. DIABETES REPRESENTATION

Cassie Salazar (Purple Hearts), Abby Brown (OTH-One Tree Hill), (still not enough tho, if it’s done, it is so often shown WRONG..)

7. ADHD REPRESENTATION

Jesper Fahey (Shadow And Bone), Percy Jackson + other Demigods (Percy Jackson and the Olympians), Alex Claremont Diaz (RWRB-Red, White & Royal Blue), Anne Shirley (Anne Of Green Gables 80s movies), Neal Caffrey(White Collar), Stiles (Teen Wolf), Jesus (The Fosters), Sara Eriksson (Young Royals),

7b. AUTISM REPRESENTATION

Sam Gardner (Atypical), James McEwan (Heartstopper), Wylan Hendriks/Van Eck (Shadow And Bone), Amanda (Change Of Habit 1969), Oskar Schell (Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close), Sara Eriksson (Young Royals), Quinni Gallagher-Jones (Heartbreak High),

8. DYSLEXIA/ DYSGRAPHIA REPRESENTATION

Wylan Hendriks/ Wylan Van Eck (Shadow and Bone), Percy Jackson (movies + tv show as well), Donna Martin (Beverly Hills 90210), CeCe Jones (Shake It Up), Evan Chapin (Atypical),

9. LATINX LEAD REPRESENTATION

Ava Silva (Warrior Nun) , Lissa Dragomir (Vampire Academy), Wednesday Addams (WednesdayNetflix), Santana Lopez (Glee), Ella Lopez (Lucifer), Pilar Salazar (Love, Victor), Maria (West Side Story2021), Cassie Salazar (Purple Hearts 2022), Alex Claremont-Diaz (RWRB-Red, White & Royal Blue), Jackie Howard (My Life with The Walter Boys), Noa Olivar (Pretty Little Liars:Original Sin),

10. BLACK PEOPLE AS THE LEAD REPRESENTATION

Ariel (TheLittleMermaid2023), Raven Baxter (That's So Raven), Cyborg (Teen Titans), Antwon Skills Taylor (OTH-One Tree Hill), Darius Bowman (JWCC- Jurassic World: Camp Cretaceous), Calliope Burns (First Kill), Rose Hathaway (Vampire Academy), Starr Carter (The Hate U Give 2018), Mary (Warrior Nun), Simone Jackson (DaisyJonesAndTheSix), Annabeth Chase (Percy Jackson and the Olympians), Faran Bryant (Pretty Little Liars:Original Sin), Tabitha 'Tabby' Haworthe (Pretty Little Liars:Original Sin), Darren Rivers /they/them/ (Heartbreak High),

10b. INDIGENOUS PEOPLE REPRESENTATION

Malakai Mitchell (Heartbreak High), Missy Beckett (Heartbreak High), Reservation Dogs, Rez Ball (Netflix, out soon), Mohawk Girls,

11. ASIAN LEAD REPRESENTATION

Alina Starkov (Shadow And Bone), Mal Oretsev (Shadow and Bone), Tamar Kir-Bataar (Shadow And Bone), Tolya Yul-Bataar (Shadow And Bone), Lara Jean (To All The Boys I’ve Loved Before), Ellie Chu (The Half Of It 2020), Tao Xu (Heartstopper), Kitty Song-Covey (XO Kitty), Isabel (Bottoms 2023), Minnie 'Mouse' Honrada (Pretty Little Liars:Original Sin), Ash Romero (Pretty Little Liars:Original Sin), Sasha So (Heartbreak High), Jordan Li (Gen V),

(+desi women) Kate Sharma (Bridgerton), Devi Vishwakumar (Never Have I Ever), Inej Ghafa (Shadow And Bone), Zoya Nazyalensky (Shadow And Bone), Mohini "Mo" Banjaree (Lemonade Mouth 2011), Princess Jasmine (Aladdin 2019), Emma Morley (OneDayNetflix), Amerie Wadia (Heartbreak High),

12. THE MAIN CHARACTER WEARING GLASSES REPRESENTATION

Elle Argent (Heartstopper), Ellie Chu (The Half Of It), Emma Morley (OneDayNetflix), Velma Dinkley (Scooby Doo), Harry Potter

13. MUSLIM REPRESENTATION

Rahim (Love, Victor), Aneesa Qureshi (Never Have I Ever),

14. NARCISSISTIC/ABUSIVE PARENT REPRESENTATION

Nathan Scott + Lucas Scott (OTH-One Tree Hill), Wylan Hendriks/ Wylan Van Eck (Shadow And Bone), Pacey Witter (Dawson’s Creek), Chuck Bass (Gossip Girl), Kenji Kon (JWCC- Jurassic World: Camp Cretaceous), Michael Guerin (Roswell90s/RoswellOG), Blair Waldorf (GossipGirl), Daisy Jones (DaisyJonesAndTheSix), Rose Hathaway (Vampire Academy) +Disney’s Tangled

15. VEGAN REPRESENTATION

Gar Logan/Beast Boy (DCTitans), (..like seriously we NEED more representation here..)

16. JEWISH PEOPLE REPRESENTATION

Seth Cohen (The O.C), David Gordon (Gordo) (Lizzie McGuire), Ben Gross (Never Have I Ever), Cyrus Rose (Gossip Girl), Max Wolfe (GossipGirlHBOMax), Danielle (Shiva Baby)

17. LOSS/ GRIEF REPRESENTATION

OTH-One Tree Hill/ Roswell90s/RoswellOG / ShadowAndBone / Never Have I Ever/ OneDay(Movie+TV show) / Vampire Academy/ The Vampire Diaries + Legacies/ My Life with The Walter Boys/ Wild Cards / Young Royals/ Dickinson/ Pretty Little Liars:Original Sin/

18. WRITERS/AUTHORS REPRESENTATION

Anne Shirley (Anne Of Green Gables 80s movies), Lucas Scott (OTH-One Tree Hill), Wednesday Addams (WednesdayNetflix), Emma Morley (OneDayNetflix), Dan Humphrey (Gossip Girl), Joey Potter (Dawson’s Creek), Ezra Fitz (Pretty Little Liars), Cairo Sweet (Miller’s Girl), Emily Dickinson (Dickinson),

19. FRIENDSHIP/ FOUND-FAMILY REPRESENTATION

OTH-One Tree Hill + Roswell90s/RoswellOG + Shadow And Bone + JWCC-Jurassic World Camp Cretaceous + Heartstopper + Love, Victor + Teen Titans (OG) + Scooby Doo + DaisyJonesAndTheSix + Lemonade Mouth 2011 + Bottoms 2023 + Willow(2022-2023) + My Life with The Walter Boys + Charlie’s Angels 2019 + Percy Jackson and the Olympians, Pretty Little Liars:Original Sin, Heartbreak High,

20. FOSTER KIDS/ KIDS WITHOUT A PARENT FIGURE/OR STRUGGLING TO FIND ONE/ ORPHANS/ ADOPTED/

Landon Kirby (TO-Legacies), Anya/Anastasia(1997), Michael Guerin(RoswellOG/Roswell90s), Carter Stevens/Carter Wilson (Finding Carter), Anne Shirley(AnneOfGreenGables 80s movies), Callie Jacob(The Fosters), Sam Walker (OTH-One Tree Hill), Peyton Sawyer(OTH-One Tree Hill), Christian Ozera(Vampire Academy),Lissa Dragomir(Vampire Academy), Hope Mikaelson(TO-Legacies),Gar Logan(DCTitans),Nick(No Good Nick),

21. JAPANESE REPRESENTATION

Kenji Kon (JWCC-Jurassic World: Camp Cretaceous), Gar Logan (DCTitans), Paxton Hall-Yoshida (Never Have I Ever), Jo (Running for Grace2018), Hiro + Tadashi Hamada (Bix Hero6), Stella Yamada (Lemonade Mouth 2011),

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ratfish-blues · 1 year

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Actually, this deserves its own post because the way Abbott Elementary handled Melissa's character in this episode is genuinely some of the best dyslexia representation I have ever seen on TV.

She's not a little kid who overcomes her disability as an adult. Her dyslexia doesn't give her superpowers (weirdly common trope). She isn't portrayed as stupid by the show or the other characters because of it. She's a competent adult who has developed coping mechanisms to deal with her disability and is still shown to struggle sometimes despite that! Oh my god is that refreshing!

Also, Melissa being competitive about the reading challenge and Barbra's comment about how good she is at engaging kids in reading is totally recontextualized by the reveal that she has a learning disability and especially the reveal that she was probably teased for her LD as a kid (which I'm also so happy that they brought up - I don't think most people realize how competitive elementary schools tend to make reading, and how shitty and ostracizing that can be for kids who struggle with it). Winning the book challenge is important to her because it's something she used to really struggle with. She's good at getting kids to read because she can relate to their challenges in a personal way. They directly tie her LD to her strengths as a teacher without it being fantastical or over-emphasized and I can't even begin to tell you how much I love it!

The bit at the end where she says "you know how sometimes I have to read things a few times" to Janine, in the break room with no students present is also a great scene because it shows her LD in an adult, professional context. It's a conversation that I, and every dyslexic person I know, has had with their co-workers at some point. I just love that they make a point of normalizing her LD in an adult workplace setting that's separate from the classroom and away from the kids.

This season has done an awesome job talking about disability generally but the choice to give not just a student, but one of the teachers an LD was an absolutely perfect move. I really hope this gets brought up in later episodes and isn't just a one-off.

#abbott elementary #melissa schemmenti #dyslexia #disability representation #Quinta must have taken the time to higher and work with a sensitivity reader for this episode and bless her for it #I truly expect so little from dyslexia rep at this point #it was amazing to see it handled so well here

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monsterhigh-world · 1 month

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DEUCE GOT DYSLEXIA

Deuce got dyslexia, is confirmed in the episode and by the show runner

This is good representation for kids with dyslexia

#monster high #mh #mh g3 #monster high g3 #monster high 2022 #monsters #medusa gorgon #medusa #deuce gorgon #mh spoilers #major spoilers #monster high animated series #monster high series #monster high season 2 #animation #representation matters #dyslexia

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mcyt-rep · 11 days

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MENTAL/NEUROLOGICAL DISABILITY REPRESENTATION*

*this is part of the "disabilities" section, to see physical disabilities, click here

GoodTimesWithScar/Scar (Dyslexia)

Skizzleman/Skizz (Attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder, or ADHD, Multiple Sclerosis (or MS))**

Xisumavoid/Xisuma (Dyspraxia)

Tubbo (Dyslexia)

Grian (Anxiety)

Aimsey (ADHD)

PaperM00nsTV/PaperM00ns(?) (Tourette's, Autism, Dissociative Identity Disorder (or DID))***

**skizz is in both the physical and neurological disability sections because MS is a physical disability, but is also classified as a neurological disorder

***the asker who submitted paperm00ns also said, quote, "i think he's getting tested for BPD or Bipolar", but since nonnie wasn't sure, i'm not tagging it

#disability representation in mcyt #neurological disability representation in mcyt #goodtimeswithscar #skizzleman #xisumavoid #tubbo #grian #aimsey #papermoons #dyslexia #adhd #dyspraxia #anxiety #tourettes #autism #dissociative identity disorder

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happyk44 · 8 months

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Plot twist: demigods not being able to use ADHD meds because of whatever reason, I can't remember (monsters were secretly making them or something?? Or do ADHD meds just not exist in PJO canon, like I do not recall them ever being brought up 😂), was actually the result of some Apollo child who got really into the natural health movement and started preaching to other demigods about not taking vaccines or pharmaceuticals and really pressed the idea of herbalist medicine, and since some of demigod healing magic DOES include using different "natural" ingredients (natural to them, maybe, but not always to us regular ol' mortals) it caught on like wildfire, and, now, if any kid shows up to camp on ADHD meds, they're immediately razed for trying inhibit their natural survival instincts.

meanwhile this poor kid is just "um, I did not get the hyperactive ADHD, I got the inattentive one and before I started taking these pills I would legit almost get hit by cars all the time because I'd straight up cross roads without looking, so please gimme my meds, I will not be able to learn how to fight without them because I will 100% get distracted by my own internal monologue and zone out completely from what you're saying, and also my ability to process information is severely delayed so if a monster starts trying to kill me, it will definitely get a few good whacks in before I understand what's happening, unless I take my frigging meds"

#happy talks pjo #no but the adhd thing in pjo kills me because it's so... useless? like its great rhat RR wanted to represent his son!!#and i will never fault him for that - i think its great. but as far as rep goes it is lacking even w/ the later books imo #the characters who best exhibit it were definitely leo and (at the very least early) nico and they were 100% on the hyperactive side #plus like. didnt Frank just. straight not have ADHD. or dyslexia?#and he was fine for sixteen years despite being so powerful they put his life on a stick?? baffling #but anyway yeah. nah it is cute that he wanted to incorporate it as beneficial thing but idk #i guess if it were me i would've explained that it's a misdiagnosis of ADHD based on X and Y symptoms that are inherent for survival #but then i guess that's not really including it as representation because you're explaining it away and saying actually they aren't X #so 🤷‍♂️ idk. but anyway

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giulisbluesworld · 9 months

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If there are disabled angels in Good Omens, like saraqael and the demons who can't spell or write very good (maybe dyslexia?), does this mean that other angels and demons can also have all kinds of disabilities?

Can they be neurodivergend? ADHD? AUTISM?

Can they be hard of hearing or deaf?

Can they have mental illnesses?

I would love that so much... to have these beings, that can do like everything, be so much like people. To be able to identify with them on that part would be amazing.

#good omens 2 #neil gaiman #david tennant #michael sheen #crowley #aziraphale #saraquel #adhd #autism #dyslexia #disability #disability awareness #disability representation

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aurorarahl · 4 months

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If you are a parent of a neurodivergent kid, please watch the new Percy Jackson show with them. Episode 1 shows that pain of feeling different, feeling broken, so well. The books gave a generation of ND kids a whole camp of heroes that they could see themselves in. Now a whole new generation can see themselves in these heros too.

#percy jackon and the olympians #percy jackson #percy jackson tv show #pjo #pjo show #neurodivergent #adhd #dyslexia #representation matters

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windchimesofglass · 6 months

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Me, aged 12: Wow, surely this description of dyslexia in my favourite book series is an exaggeration. Words doing cartwheels is totally normal.

Me, aged 25: ...oh

#yes this is about percy jackson #feeling represented before I knew what representation was #dyslexia strikes again #percy jackson #percy jackon and the olympians #percy jackson and the olympians #dyslexia #reading issues #rick riordan

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geigercat · 7 months

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Good Omens s2 cannon: Demons can't spell

Dyslexics everywhere:

#good omens fandom #good omens #dyslexia #dyslexic #disability representation #IKnowTheyDidn'tMeanItThatWayBut #neurodiversity #neurodivergent #EveryoneIsOver-eanalysingMaggiesNote #GuessI'mTeamCrowleyThen #OK #WhyIsDemonSoHardToSpellAnyway #Daemon

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thestarwarslesbian · 4 months

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Why Wylan Van Eck is my favourite crow

He’s dyslexic like me!!!

#wylan van eck #six of crows #dyslexia #dyslexic #i love me some dyslexic representation #I’ve only seen it through wylan and the Percy Jackson characters though

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yourartmatters-itswhatgotmehere · 2 years

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Representation matters!-in YA novels

-i am, obviously, not able to type ALL here, but the ones i know and love dearly+the ones I think are most important for the readers♥- I WILL KEEP UPDATING THIS WHEN NEEDED♥) +obvi not in any important-order!!

-BUT FIRST BOOKS THAT HELP FIGHT RACISM/EDUCATE/INFORM ABOUT BLACK LIVES:

-White Fragility: Why it’s so hard for white people to talk about Racism by Robin DiAngelo

-Why I’m No Longer Talking to White People About Race by Reni Eddo-Lodge

-The Autobiography of Malcolm X by Malcolm X

-The Fire Next Time by James Baldwin

-The Source of Self-Regard by Toni Morrison

(thank you for this list Dakota Johnson!)

-The Hate U Give by Angie Thomas

-Dreams From My Father by Barack Obama

-Becoming by Michelle Obama

-BOOKS EDUCATING ABOUT CLIMATE CHANGE/CRISIS list:

https://www.goodreads.com/review/list/139102124?shelf=climate-crisis

-BOOKS EDUCATING ABOUT AIDS/HIV list:

https://www.goodreads.com/review/list/139102124?shelf=about-aids-hiv

1. BISEXUAL-BI-REPRESENTATION (as a bi person myself I still think this should be represented more in media everywhere)

-bi boys: Isaac Sullivan (The Devouring Gray + The Deck Of Omens (duology), Jesper Fahey (Six of Crows, Grishaverse), Ness Arroyo/Eduardo Iron (Infinity Cycle Series-Infinity Son + Infinity Reaper as for now), Rufus Emeterio (They Both Die At The End), Nathan Allan (I Wish You All The Best), Magnus Bane (The Mortal Instruments), Nick Nelson (Heartstopper), Alex Claremont Diaz (Red, White & Royal Blue), Winter Young(Stars and Smoke), Jonah Collins & Dylan Ramirez (They Hate Each Other), Ash Ashton Taylor (The Law of Interia), Will Tavares (Only Mostly Devastated), Enrique “Quique” Luna (This Is Why They Hate Us), Adam Parrish (The Raven Cycle Series), Will Solace (Percy Jackson Series),

-bi girls: Violet Saunders (The Devouring Gray + The Deck Of Omens (duology), Nina Zenik (Six of Crows, Grishaverse), Maribelle Lucero (Infinity Cycle Series- Infinity Son + Infinity Reaper as for now), Vivi Duarte(TheCruelPrince-The Folk Of The Air), Imogen Scott (Imogen, Obviously), Cleo Ferrara (The Girl Next Door), Nora Holleran (Red, White & Royal Blue), Lara (Only Mostly Devastated), Jules Lu (The Charm Offensive), Lea Li Zhang (How to Find a Missing Girl), Sutton Spencer (Those Who Wait),

https://www.goodreads.com/review/list/139102124?shelf=bi-bisexual-characters-done-well

1b. ASEXUAL REPRESENTATION

Ling Chang (The Diviners Series), Tolya Yul-Bataar (Grishaverse-ShadowAndBone), Tori Spring (Heartstopper), Isaac Henderson (Heartstopper),

1c. PANSEXUAL-PAN-REPRESENTATION

Parisa (The Charm Offensive), Iris Blackthorn (How to Find a Missing Girl),

2. GAY/ LESBIAN REPRESENTATION

-gay: Wylan Van Eck (Six Of Crows, Grishaverse), Henry DuBois IV (The Diviners Series), Griffin Griff Jennings(History Is All You Left Me), Brendan and Winston (Shatter Me Series), Prince Henry- Henry George Edward James Fox-Mountchristen-Windsor of Wales(Red White&Royal Blue), Amir Azadi(How It All Blew Up), Charlie Spring (Heartstopper), Orion Pagan(The First To Die At The End), Valentino Prince (The First To Die At The End), Clark Huckleton(If I See You Again Tomorrow), Beau Dupont (If I See You Again Tomorrow), Baz Pitch-Tyrannus Basilton Grimm-Pitch (Simon Snow Trilogy), Reynolds ^ Bartholomew Brimsley (Queen Charlotte), James (The Law of Interia), Ollie-Oliver (Only Mostly Devastated), Ronan Lynch (The Raven Cycle Series), Nico di Angelo (Percy Jackson Series), Emil Rey (Infinity Cycle Series- Infinity Son+ Infinity Reaper as for now),

-lesbian: Arriane Alter (Fallen Series), Ling Chang (The Diviners Series), Tamar Kir-Bataar (Grishaverse-ShadowAndBone), Nadia Zhabin (Grishaverse-ShadowAndBone), Darcy Olsson (Heartstopper), Tara Jones (Heartstopper), Charlotte Thompson (Those Who Wait),

2b. Non-Binary Representation

-Ben Benjamin De Backer (I Wish You All The Best)

-Wyatt Fowler (The Feeling Of Falling In Love)

-Gem Echols (Godly Heathens)

-Jude Ricci(Okay, Cupid)

+please go read “Gender Euphoria“ by Laura Kate Dale

3. TRANSGENDER PEOPLE REPRESENTATION

- Wyatt Croft (The Witch King)

- Felix Love (Felix Ever After)

- Neil Kearney (The Feeling Of Falling In Love)

- Noah Byrd (The Borrow A Boyfriend Club)

-Enzo Truly (Godly Heathens)

-Gem Echols (Godly Heathens)

-Yadriel (Cemetery Boys)

-Huy Trinh(Okay, Cupid)

+please go read “Gender Euphoria“ by Laura Kate Dale

4. ASTHMA REPRESENTATION

- Arthur Penhaligon (The Keys To The Kingdom Series)

4a. DISABLED CHARACTERS REPRESENTATION

Kaz Brekker & Jesper Fahey & Wylan Van Eck (Grishaverse-Six Of Crows), Genya Safin(Grishaverse-Shadow And Bone), Ling Chang (The Diviners Series), Harper Carlisle (The Devouring Gray,The Deck Of Omens), Griffin (History Is All You Left Me) (OCD),

4b. EPILEPSY in Literature(Thank you for the list The Cameron Boyce Foundation)

-100 Sideways Miles by Andrew Smith

-The Idiot by Dostoevsky

-The Gentlemen’s Guide to Vice and Virtue by Mackenzi Lee

-Dings by Lance Fogan

-What the Wind Can Tell You by Sarah Marie A.Jette

-Mustaches for Maddie by Chad Morris and Shelly Brown

-When You Reach Me by Rebecca Stead

-How Evan Broke His Head and Other Secrets by Garth Stein

-The Thing With Feathers by McCall Hoyle

- The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down by Anne Fadiman

5. DIABETES REPRESENTATION

- Cassie Salazar (Purple Hearts)

6. ADHD REPRESENTATION

- Jesper Fahey (Six Of Crows, Grishaverse)

- Percy Jackson (Percy Jackson and the Olympians Series)

- Alex Claremont Diaz (Red, White & Royal Blue)

- Anne Shirley (Anne Of Green Gables Series)

7. DYSLEXIA/ DYSGRAPHIA REPRESENTATION

- Wylan Van Eck (Six Of Crows, Grishaverse)

- Percy Jackson (Percy Jackson and the Olympians Series)

8. BLACK PEOPLE AS THE LEAD REPRESENTATION

-The Hate U Give- Angie Thomas

-Pride- Ibi Zoboi

-Beau Dupont (If I See You Again Tomorrow)

-Jesper Fahey(Grishaverse-Six Of Crows)

-Memphis Campbell(The Diviners Series)

8b. LATINX MAIN CHARACTERS-REPRESENTATION

Jude & Taryn Duarte (The Folk Of The Air Series starting with The Cruel Prince),

Alex Claremont-Diaz & June Claremont-Diaz (Red, White & Royal Blue),

Lila Reyes ( A Cuban Girl's Guide to Tea and Tomorrow ),

Infinity Son-Infinity Cycle Series, (many!)

This Is Why They Hate Us,

The First to Die at the End,

Rufus Emeterio (They Both Die At The End),

Cemetery Boys

9. THE PROTAGONIST WEARING GLASSES REPRESENTATION

- Emma Morley (One Day)

- Lewis Barnavelt (Lewis Barnavelt Series)

- Harry Potter (Harry Potter Series)

-Mateo Torrez (They Both Die At The End)

-Elle Argent (Heartstopper)

-Dev Deshpande (The Charm Offensive)

10. MUSLIM REPRESENTATION

-A Very Large Expanse Of Sea/AVLEOS-Tahereh Mafi

-An Emotion Of Great Delight/AEOGD-Tahereh Mafi

-All My Rage-Sabaa Tahir

-An Ember In The Ashes Series-Sabaa Tahir

-How It All Blew Up-Arvin Ahmadi

-Other Words for Home-Jasmine Warga

-My Heart and Other Black Holes-Jasmine Warga

11. NARCISSISTIC/ABUSIVE PARENT REPRESENTATION

-Aaron Warner (Shatter Me Series)

-Adam Kent (Shatter Me Series)

-Wylan Van Eck (Six Of Crows, Grishaverse)

-Ness Arroyo/Eduardo Iron (Infinity Cycle Series-Infinity Son + Infinity Reaper as for now)

-Evie O’Neill (The Diviners Series)

-Henry DuBois IV (The Diviners Series),

-Maxon Schreave (The Selection Series)

-Cardan Greenbriar (The Folk Of The Air Series)

-Sydney Sage (VA-Bloodlines)

-Adrian Ivashkov (Va-Bloodlines)

-Prince Kamran of Ardunia (This Woven Kingdom Series)

12. VEGAN REPRESENTATION

-Luce Price (Fallen Series)

-Emil Rey (Infinity Cycle Series- Infinity Son+ Infinity Reaper as for now)

-Bea (The Law of Inertia)

13. JEWISH PEOPLE REPRESENTATION

-Sam Lloyd/Sergei Lubovitch (The Diviners Series)

-Mabel Rose (The Diviners Series)

-Nora Holleran (Red, White & Royal Blue),

-Just One Day-Year-Night series by Gayle Forman

14. ASIAN PEOPLE REPRESENTATION

-Only a Monster by Vanessa Len

-James (The Law of Inertia)

15. LOSS/ GRIEF REPRESENTATION

-The Devouring Gray Duology-Christine Lynn Herman

-History Is All You Left Me + Infinity Cycle Series-Adam Silvera

-The Diviners Series-Libba Bray

-Grishaverse-Leigh Bardugo

-The Shadow Of The Wind- C R Zafón

-They Both Die At The End + The First To Die At The End-Adam Silvera

-This Woven Kingdom Series- Tahereh Mafi

-One Day-David Nicholls

16. WRITERS/AUTHORS REPRESENTATION

-Anne Shirley (Anne Of Green Gables Series)

-Daniel Sempere (The Shadow Of The Wind-The Cemetery Of Forgotten Books Series)

-Julian Carax (The Shadow Of The Wind)

-Emma Morley (One Day)

-David Martin (The Angel’s Game-The Cemetery Of Forgotten Books Series)

-Memphis Campbell (The Diviners Series)

-Orion Pagan (The First To Die At The End)

-Prince Henry- Henry George Edward James Fox-Mountchristen-Windsor of Wales(Red White&Royal Blue)

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Spock & L’tak Terai: Discussions on Learning Disability

Based on a very thoughtful conversations I had with @zitronenfaltertochter

What is L’tak Terai?

L’tak Terai (Memory Alpha definition): The Vulcan term for a learning disability which included spatial and order dysphasia, affecting learning, reading, and writing. It was much like the Human condition known as dyslexia. The condition was fairly common on Earth, but not so much on Vulcan.

Spatial, meaning of or relating to space, the three-dimensional realm or expanse in which all material objects are located and all events occur.

Order, as in the arrangement or disposition of people or things in relation to each other according to a particular sequence, pattern, or method.

Dysphasia, language disorder marked by deficiency in the generation of speech, and sometimes also in its comprehension.

In Spock, this disability is attributed to inheriting (at least aspects of) Amanda Grayson’s dyslexia. L’tak Terai is seemingly a temporary developmental disability, while in Humans, conditions like dyslexia and dyscalculia are lifelong.

It manifests most obviously in canon during Light & Shadows as Spock reciting numbers in the incorrect order for his needs while in a disassociative fugue brought on by his contact with the Red Angel.

Which has led myself and others to misinterpret it as dyscalculia, and Amanda’s mention of Spock having L’tak Terai because of her dyslexia has led others to misinterpreting it as analogous to dyslexia. When in truth it is neither of them though it presents surface level symptoms attributed to both.

He’s also said to have L’tak Terai, but in truth, Spock’s condition is unique and that label is all they have. L’tak Terai supposedly goes away as a Vulcan child matures, for Spock it did not. Spock is half human, but his learning disability cannot fully be equated to human learning disabilities as we know them today. Like in a great many other things, Spock is unique.

A Mother With Learning Disability, Communicating With Her Child

Amanda deliberately read Spock Alice’s Adventures In Wonderland to try and tell him just because things are assumed to be one way, doesn’t mean they can’t also be another.

That sometimes up is down and left is right, and that it’s not inherently bad for things to be that way. Sometimes things that you are told are correct and concrete are wrong, or gruesomely oversimplified, and can be changed. It’s okay for things to not make sense, if you can hold true to yourself as you figure it out.

I may not have dyscalculia or dyslexia, but I did grow up with different learning disabilities. What came easily to others did not come easily to me. The way that I am isn’t wrong or bad, and it is not the source of my inner strengths, or my intelligence. But it does irrevocably effect how I interpret the world, it always has and always will.

It provides me a unique perspective on the world, it is not a superpower, but it is wisdom. Wisdom that can be applied to question and observe things in ways that don’t occur to most neurotypical people. It also has its extremely potent drawbacks, overstimulation, lack of accomadation among them.

L’tak Terai is NOT Presented As A Superpower

Spock is uniquely vulnerable to attempting to mindmeld with individuals who don’t/haven’t experienced time linearly. Processing and communicating things in a coherent order is already difficult for him. Everything changes when he melds with Future!Michael.

When presented with something that isn’t congruent with the order and spatial reasoning of time. Something he has worked so incredibly hard to understand and communicate, being proven wrong on such an intense, psychic, empathetic level. It strips away whatever accomadations he has built for himself in his mind.

All the workarounds and training, the bedrock of his inner world is uprooted. In ways that a neurotypical person could never understand. They don’t have to fight every second of every day to keep things in the “right” order, the order that people who aren’t like him understand. Spock’s struggle to communicate in that sense continues into TOS (which I’ll discuss in a moment).

It is not Spock’s L’tak Terai that saves the day. It is Spock’s long established remarkable intelligence and strength of character that helps solve the Red Angel’s mysteries. The L’tak Terai gives him the wisdom, not the inherent magical ability, to see the problem from angles no one else had thought of. That’s no super power, and to assume so I personally believe has an element of ableism to it.

It assumes Spock, or anyone else for that matter, could never have figured it out without L’tak Terai. As if Spock’s intelligence, perseverance, and ability to apply the wisdom born of his life experiences from having L’tak Terai had nothing to do with it. It removes the disability from the person it’s attached to. Frequently in a way that still seems to deem the person/character as “weaker” for having the disability inform their experiences, and their logic.

Does Spock Struggle With His L’tak Terai in TOS?

I think the answer is emphatically yes, and I will list a few examples to support my beliefs. I do not believe his disability magically disappears after it becomes directly relevant in Discovery, even if it isn’t directly stated. After all, TOS is notoriously riddled with ambiguities. Ambiguities that are now getting explanations and context through shows like Discovery & Strange New Worlds.

In The Naked Time, when he is unable to stop or make sense of the unbridled emotions the virus is forcing him to feel, he eventually starts counting by twos. As if fighting his L’tak Terai will let him get a grip on his emotions, struggling to apply himself to whatever he’s attempting on the monitor in that room. His thoughts are drawn to his mother. Amanda, who is dyslexic, who strove to help him cope with his own disability, who he could never tell he loved her.

In The Changeling, while Spock tends to anthropomorphize machines, projecting onto them a bit. Nomad is the first time (but not the last) that he mind melds with an artificial intelligence. Nomad has not experienced time linearly, it is damaged, there are blots in its memory, it has become something other than what it was designed for. Kirk has to intervene to prevent Spock from being trapped in Nomad’s mind. Afterward Spock is extremely disoriented and struggles to put into words what he and Nomad experienced.

In By Any Other Name, when Spock tries to remotely meld/influence the crew’s alien captor, it’s too much for him. He describes them processing space and time and mathematics in a way that’s advanced far beyond comprehension. The implication could be the effect the telepathic contact would not have been as severe, and more information could have been understood, if he didn’t have L’tak Terai.

In conclusion, I think they’re doing a decent job with Spock as disability representation so far. Though the mere fact that many have interpreted it as the “superpower disability” trope is indicative of the fact they could be doing even better. At SDCC this year, when asked about Spock’s learning disability, it was implied that there would be more to see of his struggle in the future. I have reasonably high hopes for it 💚🖖🏻💚

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