Papers
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QD Conference Papers: Legal Perspectives: Carolyn Tyjewski
PAPERS Legal Confusions: Hybridity and the Politics of Identity In recent years, the United States’ court system has grappled with the question of who should and should not be protected…
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QD Conference Papers: (In)visibility, Recognition, and Marginalization: Queers with Non-Apparent Disabilities: Peggy Munson
PAPERS The Invisible Panelist Peggy MunsonStrickenbk@aol.com www.angelfire.com/ri/strickenbk Long before I became disabled at age 23, I had encounters with the unseen. Being queer gave me an innate sense of when…
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QD Conference Papers: (In)visibility, Recognition, and Marginalization: Queers with Non-Apparent Disabilities: Cal Montgomery
PAPERS Tangled in the Invisibility CloakPresentation for the Queer Disability 2002 conference, June 2002. Cal Montgomery – ckmont@aol.com [Moody] muttered, “Nice cloak, Potter.”Harry stared at him in amazement….“Can your eye —…
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QD Conference Papers: Opening Panel: Raymond Luczak
PAPERS Looking at all of you, I am struck by how much I’ve changed since the days I spent standing by the brick walls of the Ironwood Catholic Grade School…
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QD Conference Papers: Theorizing Queer Disabled/Deaf Experience: John B. Kelly
PAPERS “Your Sexuality, Your Body, Get Over It!: The Liberatory Ethic of Queer and Disability Theory.” Queer-Disability Conference, SF CA, June 2002John B. Kelly, Brandeis University Is dignity something that…
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QD Conference Papers: Writers Read Their Work I: Poetry and Memoir: Judith Grant
PAPERS Trauma and Separation “There comes a time when the operation of the machine becomes so odious, makes you so sick at heart, that, you can’t take part, you can’t…
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QD Conference Papers: Writers Read Their Work II: Poetry, Fiction, and Erotica: Leah Gardner
PAPERS Sewing Leah Gardner I used to watch my grandmother sew,The hum of her Singer coaxing troublesome seams in to place,Fitting cloth gently and meticulously to meet her design,Mental blueprints…
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QD Conference Papers: Sunday Night Performance: Terry Galloway
PAPERS “Out All Night and Lost My Shoes” a solo performance piece by Terry Galloway Besides making me deaf and hallucinatory, being a modern medical accident also gave me my…
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QD Conference Papers: All-Girl Action: Queer Crip Women in Performance
PAPERS “Deaf as a Post/Tough as Nails” When I was a kid growing up hallucinatory and deaf (deaf then being the catch all word for any kind of severe hearing…
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QD Conference Papers: Opening Panel: Vicky D’Aoust
PAPERS QD identity -What is QD? Identity: culture and community building, making spaces, celebrating selvesPolitics are personal; personal is politicalSex (doing it not being it) is importantIntersextions: liminality of queerness…