queercrip

Etymology

Definitions

1. 1

   Belonging to, characteristic of, or related to both the disabled and LGBT communities.

   • Non-devotee versions of such imagery might be easier to access for amputees involved in queercrip communities.
   • In showing up and becoming visible as queercrip, we intentionally shift the frame of desirability.
   • Second, by intentionally eliciting the shaming stare, Cubacub positions the queercrip body as an active agent rather than a passive object of the gaze.
2. 2

   One who belongs to both the disabled and LGBT communities.

   • 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.
   • […] 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.
   • 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.

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• synonymcripqueer