In the Intersection: Neurodiversity and Disability in LGBT Lit

The final post in our intersection series is here! Today we’re looking at books which feature neurodiverse or disability rep. That does, of course, give us a vast array of stories to choose from, and we couldn’t represent every possible facet of it in a single post. As such, perhaps even more than the lists, this is very much a starter pack. And if you don’t see a more popular one on here, that you might have been expecting, that’s just because we wanted to highlight those which aren’t often recced.

Everything else we’ve featured in this series can be found here: Black, African & Caribbean lit, East Asian lit, West Asian lit, South Asian lit, Southeast Asian lit, Indigenous lit, religion in lit.

The Outside by Ada Hoffman (autistic sapphic mc)
Six Goodbyes We Never Said by Candace Ganger (bi/pan mc with depression, anxiety & OCD)
How to Become a Planet by Nicole Melleby (sapphic mc with depression and anxiety)
I Would Leave Me If I Could: A Collection of Poetry by Halsey (poetry; bipolar disorder)
Ascension by Jacqueline Koyanagi (lesbian mc with chronic illness & PTSD)

Portrait of My Body as a Crime I’m Still Committing by Topaz Winters (poetry; panic attacks, eating disorder and anxiety)
The Wicker King by K. Ancrum (bi mc with anorexia, anxiety and depression, bi mc with peduncular hallucinosis)
Failure to Communicate by Kaia Sønderby (autistic sapphic mc)
Timekeeper by Tara Sim (bi mc with PTSD, gay mc)
An Unheard Song by Laura Ambrose (sapphic mc with agoraphobia)

How It Feels to Float by Helena Fox (sapphic mc with depression)
The Queen of Dauphine Street by Thea de Salle (pan mc with PTSD and anxiety)
Weekend by Jane Eaton Hamilton (sapphic mc with a heart condition)
Otherbound by Corinne Duyvis (mute bi mc)
The Girls Are Never Gone by Sarah Glenn Marsh (diabetic sapphic mc)

So Lucky by Nicola Griffith (sapphic mc with multiple sclerosis)
Long Macchiatos and Monsters by Alison Evans (Latinx nonbinary mc with a disfigured hand, Black trans li with a prosthetic leg)
The Loudest Silence by Olivia Janae (sapphic Deaf mc)
QDA: A Queer Disability Anthology ed. by Raymond Luczak (lgbt cast)
Survival Kit by A.H. Haga (wheelchair-using sapphic mc with myalgic encephalomyelitis)

The Labyrinth’s Archivist by Day Al-Mohamed (sapphic blind mc)
Sated by Rebekah Weatherspoon (Korean American amputee bi mc)
The Submission Gift by Solace Ames (Mexican American bi mc with chronic back pain)
The Unintentional Time Traveler by Everett Maroon (trans mc with epilepsy)
Mean Little Deaf Queer: A Memoir by Terry Galloway (memoir)

Exile and Pride: Disability, Queerness, and Liberation by Eli Clare (memoir)
Crip Theory: Cultural Signs of Queerness and Disability by Robert McRuer (nonfiction)
Fading Scars: My Queer Disability History by Corbett Joan OToole (memoir)
Body, Remember: A Memoir by Kenny Fries (memoir)
Young, Disabled and LGBT+ Voices, Identities and Intersections ed. by Alex Toft, Anita Franklin (essays)

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