queercrip

queercrip

English

Etymology

queer +‎ crip

Adjective

queercrip (comparative more queercrip, superlative most queercrip)

1. Belonging to, characteristic of, or related to both the disabled and LGBT communities.
   • 2012, Robert McRuer & Anna Mollow, Sex and Disability, 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 The Routledge Handbook of Disability and Sexuality (eds. Linda Mona & Russell Shuttleworth), 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 The Routledge Handbook of Queer Rhetoric (eds. Jacqueline Rhodes & Jonathan Alexander), 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.

Synonyms

• cripqueer

Noun

queercrip (plural queercrips)

1. 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 The Cambridge Companion to Queer Studies (ed. Siobhan B. Somerville), 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.