king♔chips: On Disability and Visibility
In the wake of that sketch of Barbara Gordon in her Batgirl costume walking away from her wheelchair, I felt compelled to write. I ignored that compulsion until I calmed down, because most of it was frustration and anger.
I can absolutely understand why people are excited…
Everything that’s irritated me about Babs’ reboot put in a passionately eloquent way. I hope the execs at DC have people who are paid to find shit like this and pass it on to their higher ups. You are advertising crappy decisions and we, the masses, are not happy. Even if I can’t have my happy homosexual character yet, Babs has been an empowering figure in several communities for the past few decades and what her reboot says to those communities just hurts.
