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Note: I am an abled-bodied and neurotypical white woman. I used these resources for evaluating the graphic novels as I felt I had little authority to do so without these guidelines. I used scholarly reviews, blogs, Twitter and Goodreads to determine if these resources are authentic and accurate. I wanted a focus on own voices authors but as that could be hard to find at times, I decided to read and evaluate these resources as well. Therefore I used the following guidelines to determine whether to include this graphic novel, comic, manga or webtoon on the website. These guidelines are also good for educators to consider when adding resources to their own curriculum, library, etc.
Guidelines: *The following guidelines are collapsed due to the content warning for harmful trope/stereotypes. Expand to see content.
Guidelines: *The following guidelines are collapsed due to the content warning for harmful trope/stereotypes. Expand to see content.
Tropes/Stereotypes
Tropes/Stereotypes
Better Dead Than Disabled (based off of the article, “Disability Tropes 101 – The Magical Cure” by Derek Newman-Stille)
Inspiration Porn (based off of the discussion post, “Disability Tropes” on the Disability in Kidlit Website (para. 4))
Magical Cure (based off of the article, “Trope of the Week #6: Magical Cures and Disability as an Obstacle” by FayOnyx)
Kenny Fries Test (based off of Kenny Fries articles, "The Fries Test: On Disability Representation In Our Culture"):
Kenny Fries Test (based off of Kenny Fries articles, "The Fries Test: On Disability Representation In Our Culture"):
Does a work have more than one disabled character?
Do the disabled characters have their own narrative?
Is the character’s disability not eradicated by curing or killing? (similar to Better Dead Than Disabled and Magical Cure)
Pitiable
“My Own Worst Enemy”
Villains
Atmosphere
Helpless
Objects of Violence
Burdens
Laughable
Super Crip
Other Questions to Consider (based off of Chloë Myers and Hank Bersani Jr's article, "10 Quick Ways to Analyze Children's Books for Ableism"):
Other Questions to Consider (based off of Chloë Myers and Hank Bersani Jr's article, "10 Quick Ways to Analyze Children's Books for Ableism"):
Do any of the works promote ableism by:
Ignoring disabled people
Using stereotypical illustrations or plot
Including ableist language ("crazy", "insane", "dumb", etc.)
*unfortunately, almost all of the graphic novels included some kind of ableist language ("crazy") therefore, I did not use this evaluation method as a main factor to weed out the books
Does the author have any background in what they are writing/drawing?
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