LGBTQIA characters of colour are rare, and disabled/atypical characters who are also queer? I think I've seen it once! And this is weird because once you're different in one way, this often will make you more open to being different in another --after all, they're already staring. If you're different, that in itself is a mark, even if nobody can tell you are. You are probably reminded every day that you're the exception, that you don't fit in, and books are here to make us realise we are not really alone.
So here's a list for main characters (protagonist or protagonist cast, which is to say, someone who shows up in almost every chapter) that are two or more of the following:
Queer (ie non-traditional when it comes to their sexuality or gender identity, which is to say, someone who identifies as, say, asexual and who is affected by it in the narrative)
Disabled (by society)
Neuroatypical or mentally ill (whichever classification works for the character, whether is temporary but long-term like depression or lifelong like Tourette's)
Not the default race (In England, that could be black despite black people being the largest minority; but in the middle east, it could be white, etc etc.)
Culturally different (ie religion, immigrant status, grew up in a bunker with mysanthropic grandpa and has no idea what a watch is, let alone an ipad)
Different in some other way that can occur in the real world (ie. white gay mutants in Canada don't count, but Maori mermaids in Australia who like girls do).
Let the intersections begin!
So here's a list for main characters (protagonist or protagonist cast, which is to say, someone who shows up in almost every chapter) that are two or more of the following:
Queer (ie non-traditional when it comes to their sexuality or gender identity, which is to say, someone who identifies as, say, asexual and who is affected by it in the narrative)
Disabled (by society)
Neuroatypical or mentally ill (whichever classification works for the character, whether is temporary but long-term like depression or lifelong like Tourette's)
Not the default race (In England, that could be black despite black people being the largest minority; but in the middle east, it could be white, etc etc.)
Culturally different (ie religion, immigrant status, grew up in a bunker with mysanthropic grandpa and has no idea what a watch is, let alone an ipad)
Different in some other way that can occur in the real world (ie. white gay mutants in Canada don't count, but Maori mermaids in Australia who like girls do).
Let the intersections begin!
Tags:
asexual-ya, asexuality, asian-autistic, aspergers, autism, autism-in-fiction, black-autistic, borderline, gay-poc, intersex-poc, mental-illness-in-young-adult, pansexual-ya, psychopathy, queer-autistic, queer-poc, sociopathy, tourette-s-syndrome, trans-poc, yong-adult-trans, young-adult-bisexual, young-adult-lesbian, young-adult-queer
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