Have you ever wondered why most villains of fiction and fairytales tend to have a disability trait?

Neither did I, I until Peter Dinklage pointed it out.

Writing this feature was one of the more enjoyable ones. While it required doing additional reading on top of the readings I have to do for class, I had the pleasure of reading messed up fairytales.

In my humble opinion , the issue of representation is a first world issue, one that hardly has the same weight as accessible education , transportation, housing and workplaces.

That being said, as a speculative writer, a creative; it is my duty to provide a new form of representation of people with disabilities as someone who spreads awareness.

It is tempting to describe evil people with disfigurement as it indicates to the reader, there is something wrong with them.

But that doesn’t mean there is something inherently wrong with a person who has a disability.

In this feature, I explore the concept of disability in fiction, discus the negative effects of this type of representation and explore alternative narrative tropes.