Feminist, Queer, Crip

De: Alison Kafer

Narrado por: Sarah Beth Pfeifer

In Feminist, Queer, Crip, Alison Kafer imagines a different future for disability and disabled bodies. Challenging the ways in which ideas about the future and time have been deployed in the service of compulsory able-bodiedness and able-mindedness, Kafer rejects the idea of disability as a predetermined limit. She juxtaposes theories, movements, and identities such as environmental justice, reproductive justice, cyborg theory, transgender politics, and disability that are typically discussed in isolation and envisions new possibilities for crip futures and feminist/queer/crip alliances. This bold book goes against the grain of normalization and promotes a political framework for a more just world.

©2013 Alison Kafer (P)2021 Tantor

Very theoretical

This book was a lot more theoretical (as in heavily rooted in theory) than I expected. It is dense and theoretical, but also very thought-provoking. I'm glad I stuck with it, but it is very, very theory-based. My background with having taken several literary theory classes helped. It's similar to those classes.

If you're looking for a theory, this is a good one. If you're looking for a general nonfiction or a more essay based, personal experienced based read, this one is not that.