Queercrip

Non-devotee versions of such imagery might be easier to access for amputees involved in queercrip communities.

In showing up and becoming visible as queercrip, we intentionally shift the frame of desirability.

Second, by intentionally eliciting the shaming stare, Cubacub positions the queercrip body as an active agent rather than a passive object of the gaze.

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.

[…] 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 pleasures.

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.