Abstract

This chapter provides an overview of the treatment of (dis)ability and race in speculative media. It argues that race and (dis)ability in this genre are erased in two key ways: first, by the dearth of racialized and disabled characters in speculative media historically; and second, by the way representations of Otherness in speculative media are not read for their racial and (dis)ability connotations. The chapter discusses a number of examples of speculative media to demonstrate how important it is to consider the non-realist context of speculative media when interpreting these representations in regard to (dis)ability and race.