The Murverse Mothership

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• Matt and Mur come to you live from Jeff Goldblum’s Seattle-based CPAP Emporium with special returning guest, Hugo-nominated writer, editor, and disability activist, Elsa Sjunneson-Henry
• The Ditch Diggers explain the incredibly inside-baseball location of today’s episode.
• Elsa answers a listener’s question about networking as an author with a disability, particularly at conventions, and con accessibility.
• Self-rejecting as an author (or other creative) with a disability, and how to deal with writing disability-forward fiction in the current marketplace.
• Elsa explains ME BEFORE YOU to Matt, who was unfamiliar with both the book and the movie, and her issues with it.
• Elsa and the Ditch Diggers discuss sensitivity editing.
• Matt is still upset Mur looked better in the hats given to winners at this year’s Hugo Losers Party (plus George’s Chicken Hats. You’ll find out.)
• Listener Q&A! Topics include tie-in novelization writing and including LGBTQ characters in your fiction.

• Elsa on Twitter: https://twitter.com/snarkbat
• Elsa’s blog: http://feministsonar.com/elsa/
• Disabled People Destroy Science Fiction: https://uncannymagazine.com/issues/uncanny-magazine-issue-twenty-four/
• Chicago University Dialogue Series on Censorship: https://voices.uchicago.edu/censorship/dialogueseries/