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Jan Grue

Jan Grue is an award-winning writer and a professor at the University of Oslo. His memoir I Live a Life Like Yours is published by Pushkin

April 2023

  • Composite of 21 disabled or disfigured villains

    The Audio Long Read
    The disabled villain: why sensitivity reading can’t kill off this ugly trope – podcast

    For centuries, fictional narratives have used outer difference to telegraph inner monstrosity. As someone who uses a wheelchair, I’ve learned you can’t just edit out a few slurs or bad words to fix this – it’s often baked deep into the story. By Jan Grue

March 2023

  • composite of 21 disabled villains for jan grue long read

    The long read
    The disabled villain: why sensitivity reading can’t kill off this ugly trope

    The long read: For centuries, fictional narratives have used outer difference to telegraph inner monstrosity. As someone who uses a wheelchair, I’ve learned you can’t just edit out a few slurs or bad words to fix this – it’s often baked deep into the story

December 2021

  • man in wheelchair at bottom of stair case

    The Audio Long Read
    The high cost of living in a disabling world – podcast

    For all the advances that have been made in recent decades, disabled people cannot yet participate in society ‘on an equal basis’ with others – and the pandemic has led to many protections being cruelly eroded

November 2021

  • illustration: man in wheelchair at bottom of stairs

    The long read
    The high cost of living in a disabling world

    The long read: For all the advances that have been made in recent decades, disabled people cannot yet participate in society ‘on an equal basis’ with others – and the pandemic has led to many protections being cruelly eroded
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