![]() As Dean explains, “queer” is not opposed to heterosexuality but to hetero normativity, and similarly, “crip” is not so much opposed to able-bodiedness as it is opposed to the norms of ability or compulsory able-bodiedness. In its derogatory usage, “queer” simply meant that a person deviated from the norm, whether this was in virtue of their body, mind, gender presentation, or sexual orientation.Īs Dean points out, while it is primarily LGBTQ activists and scholars who have transvalued “queer,” taking it up as an identity and a source of pride, disability activists and scholars have done similar work with the term “crip.” Crip theory, like queer theory, is fundamentally anti-normative. In this short keyword essay, Tim Dean explains that although “queer” is now primarily associated with non-normative sexuality, it was historically a pejorative label applied to disabled as well as non-heterosexual people. ![]()
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