Feminist, Queer, Crip

By: Alison Kafer

Narrated by: 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

Great Academic Text on Disability

As others have mentioned, this is very much in the weeds about theory. If you're looking for an academic read that expands your mind about disability, this is the book for you. I am writing a capstone on disability, and this book has been a wealth of knowledge for understanding and background for my hypothesis. Great book and has changed a lot of my ideas on disability.

A worthwhile read.

A very mind opening book. Many of the positions presented by the author are in alignment with the beliefs I already held, but she does give me more to think about. Some of the “cases” she presents are heartbreaking and/or horrifying. A worthwhile read.

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.