Hi! I love SF/F, especially from marginalized creators or creators who try to add intersectional identities in their world, because I think these perspectives add depth I can relate to or empathize with in SF/F and ofc critique reality in a creative way.
I’ve read queer and BIPOC SF/F and I loved them but I want to expand my reading list to the perspectives of disabled creators or writers. I’m looking for stories that really play with the idea of how mental illness/disorders affects magic systems or critiques the ways mental illness has long been weaponized to dehumanize disabled peoples by monstrifying their pathologies (e.g. werewolves and bipolar disorder, changelings and autism). I would prefer high fantasy, like a neurodivergent main character who happens to be a magician or something, but urban fantasy/magical realism would be okay, too.
SF/F books I’ve enjoyed in the past are *The Locked Tomb* series (it kind of touches upon magic and mental illness with a canonical schizophrenic necromancer and much of the magic system requires or leads to trauma) or anything by Tamsyn Muir, *The Murderbot Diaries*, *The City We Became*, and *This Is How You Lose the Time War*.
SF/F from similar genres but in other media would be like any Jordan Peele horror movie, *Monstrous Agonies*, and *Annihilation* (didn’t really vibe with the book as much).
by TonguetiedTalker