queercrip

One who belongs to both the disabled and LGBT communities.

Adjective

  1. 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...
    • 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...

Origin

From queer + crip.

Synonyms

cripqueer

Noun

  1. 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,...
    • […] 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...
    • 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,...

Forms

queercrips

Synonyms

cripqueer