Queer/Crip

We are 15 nights into LGBTQ+ pride month and have 15 nights to go until disability pride month. So I wrote a few words💞

on a pale pink background with a gradient rainbow sphere. "To be queer and/or to be crip can hardly be described as fully distinct categories. First because they are both understood to be deviations to concepts we highly celebrate as ‘normal’, heterosexual and able bodied. Identities that are seen as so normal, those who believe they align with them rarely question them. Second, they both provide a critique and framework to the way we understand this normalcy. Queerness tells us about heterosexuality. And disability tells us about able bodiedness."

on a pale pink background with a gradient rainbow sphere. "countless time has been spent defining queerness and disability as deviations to further judge, oppress and criminalize their manifestations, and yet, when those who embrace queer and crip identities want to participate in the writing of their rich histories, this speech is revoked."

on a pale pink background with a gradient rainbow sphere. "heterosexuality, cisness and able bodiedness' invisibility and omnipresence in our society further complexify the world's understanding of why crip/queer/trans/mad pride could and should exist. But if normalcy is hard to define, and if those who are 'normal' can more easily be described by what they (in bold) are not, how can those who are normal be the center? How can they be the core? (in bold) they cannot.

on a pale pink background with a gradient rainbow sphere human heart with branch-like veins. "and thus I repeat: I queer, I crip, am not a deviation of you, (in bold) you, are nothing without me.”

on a pale pink background with a gradient rainbow sphere and a tree and its roots.  Queer/crip reading list: Feminist, Queer, Crip, Alison Kafer. Crip Theory, Robert McRuer. Exile and Pride, Eli Clare. Care Work: Dreaming Disability Justice, Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha