Queer & Trans Disability/Deaf Resources
This resource list is under continual development. Please send additions to:
eli (at) eliclare (dot) com.
Books // Zines // Websites // Blogs // Podcasts // Listservs // Films // Downloadable Resources
Books
Anthologies
• Victoria Brownsworth and Susan Raffo, editors,
Restricted Access: Lesbians on Disability (1999)
• Jennifer Clare Burke, editor,
Visible: A Femmethology, Volumes One & Two (2009) (significant disability content)
• 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, 2009)
• Kenny Fries,
Body, Remember (1997)
• Kenny Fries,
The History of My Shoes and the Evolution of Darwin’s Theory (2007)
• Terry Galloway,
Mean Little deaf Queer (2009)
• 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)
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Zines
• Jillian Bogater, editor,
Queer Zine Lit (an on-line zine with significant disability content)
• 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, editor,
Cripping Femme Zine, "by and for queerly feminine folks with dis/abilities" (e-mail Leslie at efemmera (at) yahoo (dot) com)
• 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)
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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)
• criperotica
• 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
• Mangos With Chili ("the floating caberet of QTPOC bliss, dreams, sweat, sweets & nightmares," co-founded and co-directed by
Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha, who has written and performed significantly about disability)
• Passing Twice (an informal social network of LGBT stutterers)
• Sins Invalid, a performance project on disability and sexuality that incubates and celebrates artists with disabilities, centralizing artists of color and queer and gender-variant artists
People
• Colin K. Donovan (activist, performer, educator, writer)
• Qwo-Li Driskill (poet, scholar, performer, activist)
• Loree Erickson (porn star academic)
• Kenny Fries (writer)
• Laura Hershey (writer, poet, activist, consultant)
• 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)
• Aurora Levins Morales (writer, artist, historian, and activist, healer, revolutionary)
• Peggy Munson (writer)
• Danielle Peers (wheelchair basketball player, Paralympian, speaker)
• Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha (writer, performer, teacher)
• Dylan Scholinski (artist, writer, speaker)
• Greg Walloch (comedian)
• Sharon Wachsler (writer, trainer)
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Blogs
• Ambrose's Blog, The Root Cellar
• Bethany Stevens' Blog, Crip Confessions
• Biodiverse Resistance's Blog
• Crip Chick's Blog
• Dave Hingsbuger's Blog, Chewing the Fat
• The Deal with Disability video blog by the founder of Queers on Wheels
• Irreverent Sarcastic Smartypants Disability Tour's (aka Colin Kennedy Donovan's) Blog
• Mia Mingus's Blog, Leaving Evidence
• Sweet Perdition's Blog
• To the Other Side of Dreaming, a tumblr by Stacey Milburn and Mia Mingus
• Venus Speaks Blog
• Wheelchair Dancer's Blog
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Podcasts
• Leslie Freeman, debut of the "Cripping Femme" series (Episode 8 of the
FemmeCast)
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Listservs
• Queer Disability listserv
• QueerAbility listserv
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Films
• Austin Unbound, Eliza Greenwood
• Crip Shots, John Killacky
• Double the Trouble, Twice the Fun,
Pratibha Parmar
• GIMP Boot Camp, Danielle Peers and Melisa Brittain
• 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
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Downloadable Resources