Feminist, Queer, Crip

One of the most important and innovative works in critical, intersectional disability studies. Kafer's work is highly accessible, interdisciplinary and foundational to the futures of the field. She deals with the way disability operates in our imagines futures and the lack of futurity imagined for disabled people. Kafer engages literature, popular advertisements, the Ashley X case, cyborg theory, environmentalism and so much more. Essential for any disability studies student or scholar as well as intersectional feminist and queer theorists.

Feminist Queer Crip is a scholarly book about disability, gender, and sexuality, and how, together, they shape our ideas about who has a future worth living for. The book is smart, cogently-argued, and very perceptive about different kinds of disabled embodiments. It covers issues ranging from bioethics (e.g. the case of Ashley X) to gender-neutral bathrooms to nature and environmental justice. If you're interested in coalitional politics and nuanced analysis of complicated issues, this is the book for you.

This book changed the way I think about life. Kafer is an outstanding scholar and writer who offers astute and challenging insights from her feminist queer crip perspective. This is not a book only for certain groups of people. Kafer's manuscript de-centers how we think about life in general and invites readers to consider new, and in my view liberating, perspectives. Each chapter (and in some cases each page) stirred for me new ideas, questions, and challenges. I am grateful to this offer. Her book has de-centered and thus changed me.

This book was interesting, accessible, and absolutely life-changing. Whether or not critical disability studies is of particular interest to you, you will become passionate after reading this book.

I only made it about 70 pages in.The theory/ideas seem--oddly--disembodied. The author seems bent on denying the physical realities and losses of disability. As a disabled person, I don't want an analysis that forgets my material experience.

It's a book that I needed to get for a class and read a chapter and I haven't been able to stop thinking about it so I'm buying another copy for a friend with interest in the topic.

For lesbian/gender-queer people with physical disabilities. It's not about a feminist queer that becomes a "crip" (that sounded more interesting). They might want to clear that up. This is not a novel.- Andrew

A fascinating and thought-provoking book, with some challenging analysis that will have you questioning your inner ableism. Genuinely a page-turner!

A strong argument for disabled people in an ableist world. I am particularly taken with Kafer’s use of crip time, and the ways in which disabled people have to bend to fit into a world that wasn’t designed by them, and isn’t prepared to alter for them. Her discussion of “pillow angels” is a great read for anyone looking to re-affirm their notions of the embodiment of disability, and who gets to “own” their body, which is particularly relevant as Robert Latimer’s case appears in the news again.