Queer & Trans Disability/Deaf Resources
This resource list is under development. Please send additions to:
eli (at) eliclare (dot) com.
Books
Anthologies
• Victoria Brownsworth and Susan Raffo, editors, Restricted Access: Lesbians on Disability (1999)• Bob Guter and John Killacky, editors, Queer Crips: Disabled Gay Men and Their Stories (2004)
• Raymond Luczak, editor, Eyes of Desire: A Deaf Gay and Lesbian Reader (1993)
• Raymond Luczak, editor, Eyes of Desire 2: A Deaf GLBT Reader (2007)
• Robert McRuer and Abby Wilkerson, editors, Desiring Disability: Queer Theory Meets Disability Studies (2003)
• Peggy Munson, editor, Stricken: Voices from the Hidden Epidemic of Chronic Fatigue Syndrome (2000)
• Shelley Tremain, editor, Pushing the Limits: Disabled Dykes Produce Culture (1996)
Fiction
• Persimmon Blackbridge, Prozac Highway (2000)• Audre Lorde, Zami: A New Spelling of My Name (1983)
• Peggy Munson, Origami Striptease (2006)
Non-fiction
• Julie Andrzejewski and Karen Thompson, Why Can't Sharon Kowalski Come Home? (1988)• Gloria Anzaldua, Borderlands/La Frontera (2007)
• Persimmon Blackbridge and Sheila Gilhooly, Still Sane (1986)
• Eli Clare, Exile and Pride: Disability, Queerness, and Liberation (1999)
• Kenny Fries, Body, Remember (1997)
• Kenny Fries, The History of My Shoes and the Evolution of Darwin’s Theory (2007)
• Firdaus Kanga, Heaven on Wheels (2000)
• Susan Griffin, What Her Body Thought (1999)
• Firdaus Kanga, Trying to Grow (1991)
• Miriam Kaufman, Cory Silverberg, and Fran Odette, The Ultimate Guide to Sex and Disability (2007)
• Raymond Luczak, Silence Is a Four Letter Word: On Art and Deafness (2005)
• Audre Lorde, Sister Outsider (1984)
• Audre Lorde, The Cancer Journals (1980)
• Robert McRuer, Crip Theory: Cultural Signs of Queerness and Disability (2006)
• Joan Nestle, A Fragile Union (1998)
• Connie Panzarino, The Me in the Mirror (1994)
Poetry
• Eli Clare, The Marrow’s Telling: Words in Motion (2007)• solidad decosta, The Litmus of Desire (2007)
• Qwo-Li Driskill, Walking with Ghosts (2005)
• Kenny Fries, Anesthesia (1996)
• Kenny Fries, Desert Walking (2000)
• Raymond Luczak, St. Michael’s Fall (2001)
• Peggy Munson, Pathogenesis (2008)
Zines
• Jillian Bogater, editor, Queer Zine Lit (an on-line zine with significant disability content)• Dan Dumont, Sexability (2006)
• Colin Kennedy Donovan and Qwo-Li Driskill, editors, Scars Tell Stories: A Queer and Trans (Dis)ability Zine (2007)
• Colin K. Donovan, Fuck Pity (#1 2000, #2 2003)
• Leslie Freeman, Essence and Artifice, on dis/abled femme identity (e-mail Leslie at efemmera (at) yahoo (dot) com)
• Hellery Homosex, Ring of Fire
• Emi Koyama, IntersexCritiques: Notes on Intersex, Disability, and Biomedical Ethics
• billie rain, editor, sick! a zine about chronic illness (PO Box 30169, Seattle, WA 98113, $4-6 or trade)
Websites
Information
• Bent Voices (a webzine for and by disabled gay and bi men)• Closing Panel of Queerness and Disability Conference (includes important statements from the people of color and mixed race caucus and the people with psych disabilities caucus)
• Crip Commentary (Laura Hershey's essays, commentary, and poetry)
• Gayscape's list of LGBT disability websites
• Disabled Women on the Web (includes significant information about lesbians, bi, and queer women)
• Lesbians and Queers with Disabilities
• Peggy Munson’s Resources about MCS and CFIDS
• Queerness and Disability Conference of 2002
Organizations
• BFLAG (network of Blind and visually impaired LGBT People)• Deaf Queer Resource Center
• Michigan Disability Rights Coalition's project on bridge building between disability communities and LGBT communities
• Passing Twice (an informal social network of LGBT stutterers)
• Queers on Wheels
People
• Raymond J. Aguilera (editor of Bent Voices)• Diana Courvant (founder of the Survivor Project)
• solidad decosta (performer, author, video artist)
• Colin K. Donovan (activist, performer, educator, writer)
• Qwo-Li Driskill (poet, scholar, performer, activist)
• Kenny Fries (writer)
• Emi Koyama (multi-issue intersex activist, founder of the Intersex Initiative, writer)
• Sandra Gail Lambert (writer)
• Nomy Lamm (musician, writer, performance artist, self-described "badass fatass jew dyke amputee")
• Riva Lehrer (painter)
• Raymond Luczak (writer, filmmaker)
• Peggy Munson (writer)
• Danielle Peers (wheelchair basketball player, Paralympian, speaker)
• Margaret Price (writer, scholar)
• Greg Walloch (comedian)
• Sharon Wachsler (writer, editor of Breath and Shadow: A Journal of Disability Culture and Literature)
Blogs
• Biodiverse Resistance's Blog• Crip Chick's Blog
• Dave Hingsbuger's Blog, Chewing the Fat
• Fibrofog's Blog, Livin' in an Ableist World
• Irreverent Sarcastic Smartypants Disability Tour's (aka Colin Kennedy Donovan) Blog
• Laura Hershey's Blog
• Poetic Overthrow Blog by Erin Ambrose
• Sweet Perdition's Blog
• Uppity Disability Blog
• Venus Speaks Blog
Listservs
• Queer Disability listserv• QueerAbility listserv
Films
• Austin Unbound, Eliza Greenwood• Crip Shots, John Killacky
• Double the Trouble, Twice the Fun, Pratibha Parmar
• F**k the Disabled, Greg Walloch
• Self Preservation: The Art of Riva Lehrer, Sharon Snyder and David Mitchell
• Southern Comfort, Kate Davis
• Want, Loree Erickson