Author: Lindsey Allen

On Disability-Coding and the Cripple Werewolf

A wolf that is lying down and staring at the camera

Across the internet, disabled people are reclaiming popular characters as their own. TikTok trends with captions like, “Characters that are autistic because I (an autistic person) say so,” or, “This character is for the chronically ill and disabled,” take characters that are not explicitly disabled and make them explicitly disabled.   Some characters and stories lend […]