The Disability Book Archive

[ID: A book cover. The background is cream. A group of various unidentifiable shapes and colours is in the lower right corner, up to the centre. Text in the upper left corner reads:
The title “Feminist, Queer, Crip” in large red capitals, with each word on a different line,
The author’s name “Alison Kafer” directly below this in smaller black capitals. /end]

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Content Warning:

• Ableism
• Chronic Illness
• Medical Content
• Body Shaming
• Homophobia
• Sexism

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Summary:

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 pre-determined 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.

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Notes:

Kafer is an associate professor of Feminist Studies at the University of Texas.

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Archivist Comments:

I can’t tell what the shapes are supposed to be on the cover, so if anyone can tell me please do so.

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