Feminist, Queer, Crip

A solid text about disability and especially its intersections with queerness and feminism. Alison Kafer makes several astute points about contemporary society’s offensive use of disabled people as inspiration porn as well as the exclusion of disabled people from certain feminist texts. A main takea......more

5 / 5 stars I've always had qualms with the social model of disability. For those who don't know, it poses inaccessible areas as disabling and acknowledges the person's 'problem' as an impairment. Yet, as a chronically ill person, I see inaccessibility as what it is, inaccessibility, and my body as t......more

This book at times felt like a series of close readings with simultaneously too much and not enough analysis. (N.b. Part of my challenge with getting through it was that it was hard to access the footnotes on the Kindle version -- the links weren't going to the specific notes, so I started reading t......more

So, I loved this book. I also found parts of it really problematic. But I'm an academic reader, and I think that I'm no longer capable of not finding a book of any substance "really problematic" in parts.......more