queercrip
queercrip adjective: belonging to, characteristic of, or related to both the disabled and LGBT communities.
Adjective
queercrip (not comparable)
- 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.2012, Robert McRuer, Anna Mollow, Sex and Disability, page 353
- In showing up and becoming visible as queercrip, we intentionally shift the frame of desirability.2020, Courtney Andree, “Sex, Love and Disability on Screen”, in Linda Mona, Russell Shuttleworth, editors, The Routledge Handbook of Disability and Sexuality, unnumbered page
Noun
queercrip (plural queercrips)
- 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.2014, Bob Guter, John R. Killacky, Queer Crips: Disabled Gay Men and Their Stories, unnumbered page
- […] 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, Alison Kafer, “Queer Disability Studies”, in Siobhan B. Somerville, editor, The Cambridge Companion to Queer Studies, page 103
Examples of queercrip in a sentence
- Second, by intentionally eliciting the shaming stare, Cubacub positions the queercrip body as an active agent rather than a passive object of the gaze.2022, Timothy Oleksiak, “On Taking The Bottom's Stance, Or Not Your Typical Submissive”, in Jacqueline Rhodes, Jonathan Alexander, editors...
- 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.2020, anonymous, quoted in Courtney Andree, "Sex, Love and Disability on Screen", in The Routledge Handbook of Disability and Sexuality...
Synonyms of queercrip
Forms of queercrip
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Origin of queercrip
From queer + crip.
Questions about queercrip
- What does queercrip mean?
- Queercrip means belonging to, characteristic of, or related to both the disabled and LGBT communities.
- How do you use queercrip in a sentence?
- Second, by intentionally eliciting the shaming stare, Cubacub positions the queercrip body as an active agent rather than a passive object of the gaze.
- What part of speech is queercrip?
- Queercrip can be an adjective or a noun.
Words near queercrip in the dictionary
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