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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…
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QD Conference Papers: The Politics and Experience of Coming Out
PAPERS The Disability Closet: Teachers with Learning Disabilities Evaluate the Risks and Benefits of “Coming Out.” Purpose: This study documents the lived experiences of special education teachers with learning disabilities…
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QD Conference Papers: Closing Plenary: Eli Clare
PAPERS I was scheduled, along with Diana Courvant, to speak at the closing plenary of the Queerness and Disability conference. That session turned into a townhall meeting about racism and…
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QD Conference Papers: Crossroads & Borderlands: Narratives of Intersecting Oppressions: Christopher Bell
PAPERS “To Act Is to Be Committed”:AIDS Activism and Identity Politics in an English Graduate Program “Someone who shouts alone is easily suspect. And that suspicion hurts.” – Pierre Seel…