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Cait Gordon

Speaker
Cait Gordon is an autistic, disabled, and queer Canadian writer of speculative fiction celebrating diverse bodyminds. She is the author of the award-winning, disability-hopepunk adventure, Season One: Iris and the Crew Tear Through Space! Her short stories featuring disabled and/or neurodivergent heroes appear in Spring into SciFi (2024), We Shall Be Monsters, Mighty: An Anthology of Disabled Superheroes, There’s No Place, and Stargazers: Microtales from the Cosmos. She has had poems published in Polar Borealis and Mollyhouse. Cait also twice joined Talia C. Johnson to co-edit the (award-nominated) Nothing Without Us and (award-winning) Nothing Without Us Too disability fiction anthologies.
1:00PM - 2:30PM EDT

Sunday July 13th

Autism Rep in the Writing Industry

Greater understanding and better representation for Autism is needed in many areas, and the writing industry is no exception. Panelists discuss positive and negative examples of autism, common misconceptions about autism, and how to improve awareness.

6:00PM - 7:30PM EDT

Sunday July 13th

Hopepunk: Writing with Empathy in Dark Times

Empathy in writing is more important than ever. How do you develop and promote kind characters in a world that does not always reward kindness and empathy, and how can these stories act a counterbalance to grimdark/dystopian tales?