queercrip
English
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editqueercrip (not comparable)
- Belonging to, characteristic of, or related to both the disabled and LGBT communities.
- 2012, Robert McRuer, Anna Mollow, Sex and Disability[1], page 353:
- Non-devotee versions of such imagery might be easier to access for amputees involved in queercrip communities.
- 2020, Courtney Andree, “Sex, Love and Disability on Screen”, in Linda Mona, Russell Shuttleworth, editors, The Routledge Handbook of Disability and Sexuality, unnumbered page:
- In showing up and becoming visible as queercrip, we intentionally shift the frame of desirability.
- 2022, Timothy Oleksiak, “On Taking The Bottom's Stance, Or Not Your Typical Submissive”, in Jacqueline Rhodes, Jonathan Alexander, editors, The Routledge Handbook of Queer Rhetoric, unnumbered page:
- Second, by intentionally eliciting the shaming stare, Cubacub positions the queercrip body as an active agent rather than a passive object of the gaze.
- For more quotations using this term, see Citations:queercrip.
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editqueercrip (plural queercrips)
- One who belongs to both the disabled and LGBT communities.
- 2014, Bob Guter, John R. Killacky, Queer Crips: Disabled Gay Men and Their Stories, unnumbered page:
- While I did not know other queer crips, at least I was not alone. Eventually I began to meet and network with other like-bodied men.
- 2020, Alison Kafer, “Queer Disability Studies”, in Siobhan B. Somerville, editor, The Cambridge Companion to Queer Studies[2], page 103:
- […] as with Piepzna-Samarasinha's imagined collective of queercrips fucking themselves/ourselves, those working along the interstices of queer disability studies and crip theory are conjuring sideways relations and pleasures.
- 2020, anonymous, quoted in Courtney Andree, "Sex, Love and Disability on Screen", in The Routledge Handbook of Disability and Sexuality (eds. Linda Mona & Russell Shuttleworth), unnumbered page:
- Claiming control over the process of making porn not only addresses the denial of agency queercrips so often experience but also powerfully speaks back to narratives of disposability and consumption.
- For more quotations using this term, see Citations:queercrip.