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Cait Gordon—Speculative Fiction Author

and feisty disability advocate who loves cake

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My First Time in a Wheelchair

On 21 Jan 201724 Jan 2017 By Cait (like cat) GordonIn Fibro, Health, Random stuff, This blog's posts9 Comments

As many of you know, I've a disability that affects my mobility. In 2016, I decided enough was enough and I would make use of mobility devices so that I could have a better quality of life and stop saying, "I can't," to events. The reason it took me so long to get there mentally …

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Using ‘they’ as a singular pronoun

On 17 Oct 201617 Oct 2016 By Cait (like cat) GordonIn Just stuff, This blog's posts, WritingLeave a comment

When I was in school and even early on in my career as a technical writer, using they as a singular pronoun meant being tied to the rack or put in the stocks until you chose he or she instead. As a result, my brain was conditioned to think in a horribly binary way. Many …

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Latest Posts

  • Once Upon a Flat (Flash Fiction)
  • 2020, A Year I Examine With Hindsight
  • Flash Fiction Challenge: November’s and December’s Results
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  • Flash Fiction Challenge 2020: December

Read the first two books of the ’Cosm series!

wo characters in space flight suits about to engage in a kiss while standing on a snowy mountain top. Overhead flies a space fighter.

“The fiercest, most formidable warrior-lovers in the ’Cosm are back. And the battle has never been so fabulous!”

~ Stephen Graham King, author of The Maverick Heart Cycle series

LITC cover: A laid back alien who resembles a fried egg with huge eyes hurtles through a multi-coloured nebula. A ringed planet floats in the background.

“It was an intergalactic joyride of epic proportions. Laugh out loud hilarious, touching, endearing and wonderful don’t do it enough justice.”

~ Jamieson Wolf, author of Little Yellow Magnet and the Lemonade series

An own-voices, multi-genre Disability anthology! Now a 2020 Prix Aurora Award finalist!

ID: Graffiti wall with “Nothing Without Us” spray painted in black. The list of editors and authors is included in the text of this page.

“I can’t describe how refreshing it is as a disabled person to read about fully fleshed out three-dimensional characters. Not only are we pulled out of our trope-ridden literary history, we are given substance.”

~ Derek Newman-Stille, eight-time Prix Aurora Award winner for Speculating Canada

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Cait (cat) Gordon

Cait Gordon, in a black and white digital sketch

Cait is a humorist, baker, and Irish-Canadian princess living in the Narnia region of Ottawa’s suburbia. She enjoys reading and writing speculative fiction that celebrates the reality of diversity. In her advocacy work, Cait’s goal is to continue to share and elevate the voices of disabled, Deaf, and/or neurodiverse creatives.

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