We Are Not Your Backstories
Disabled People Destroy Science Fiction/Uncanny Magazine
Destroy. That’s the brief of this issue. Destroy science fiction. Why? Because disabled people have been discarded from the narrative, cured, rejected, villainized. We’ve been given few options for our imaginations to run wild within the parameters of an endless sky.
This issue destroys those narratives and more.
— Elsa Sjunneson-Henry & Dominik Parisien
A continuation of the Destroy series in which disabled members of the science fiction community put ourselves where we belong: at the center of the story.
We Are Not Your Backstories is K. C. Alexander's personal accounting of growing up bipolar without a hero. Poignant and angry, this is a call to action.