Improbable Press Blog — Differently-albled

Improbable Press' submission guidelines used to ask for works about differently-abled characters. That phrase, differently-abled, was mine and with it I wanted to include my friend with almost-daily migraines, a person with chronic anxiety or depression, as well as people in wheelchairs or with limb differences. Disabled Fiction, Differently-Abled Fiction…Or? The thing is, I didn't research at all what phrasing was appropriate, and I did not ask disabled people for their thoughts on the phrasing, and then a disabled woman kindly dropped me an email to tell me that overall, disabled people use the word disabled. I did do some...