| Title | : | QDA: A Queer Disability Anthology |
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| ISBN | : | 1941960022 |
| ISBN-10 | : | 9781941960028 |
| Language | : | English |
| Format Type | : | Paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 376 |
| Publication | : | First published November 12, 2015 |
It’s a penetrating and unforgettable look into the hearts and souls of those defiant enough to explore their own vulnerabilities and demonstrate their own strengths.
“Queer sexuality and disability places me so far outside the realms of the everyday that it renders people silent.” —Jax Jacki Brown
QDA is a gathering of people with the transformative—and political—power of love that transcends gender and ability. Ignorance is the biggest barrier.
“I feel exhilarated that you might actually accept me as a sexual being; that you might see the deliciousness that is my disability.” —Andrew Morrison-Gurza
“An anthology often creates a community. In this respect, QDA is truly groundbreaking because it brings two wonderful communities together. There is not a single style, genre, or opinion in the book, but an orchestra of voices. Their seminal works mirror—and do not mirror—each other. Taken together, they light a brilliant path of honesty.” —Jennifer Bartlett, co-editor of Beauty Is a Verb: The New Poetry of Disability
QDA: A Queer Disability Anthology Reviews
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An interesting collection; I think in some ways the huge, huge reach of it was helpful (you get many perspectives, a ton of different ways that people understand themselves in their own disabilities, as well as their own relationships to queerness) and in other ways it was kind of a hinderance. There was just so much and a lot of it felt a little whiplash-y. I'm not sure it's a collection I would recommend reading all together, though I think it can definitely be a resource for folks looking to add queer disabled writing to like a syllabus or something like that. Some of it I really enjoyed, some of it was thought provoking, and some of it was kind of just okay, but I think worth having read across the board.
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4.5/5. Some pieces are better reads than others.
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I'm a little biased, but I think this book is awesome. So many different stories of how disability and queerness are woven together in the lives of others... So good!
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Full disclosure, I expected this book to be different in composition than it was and that has likely affected my experience with it. The positives of this book is that there is representation of voices sometimes unheard in anthologies like this such as Deaf queer folks, folks without super academic or radical backgrounds, and others. That said, I expected more essays than there were. I am not a big poetry person nor do I understand what makes poetry good and bad. When I found most of the entries in this book to be poetry, I was disappointed. There are also fiction and nonfiction stories told in here and sometimes it is difficult to tell which is which. I found a couple of the stories to be downright detestable (especially the one which is basically a woman talking about how ugly everyone is, the story of the developmentally disabled man's parents setting him up on a date with an abled pedophile woman, and various stories heralding assimilationism.) I don't know... I am a queer and trans disabled person who was hoping to read something I'd relate to or gain something from more than I did. The entries that I did enjoy- which tended to be the more radical of the bunch such as Jax Jacki Brown and others- I enjoyed a lot, which is why this gets the middle-of-the-road rating. If you're a person who really enjoys poetry, you will probably like this better than I did.
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Brutal, honest. Not an easy read. Some entries are direct and powerful, which others are more artistic, surreal and abstract.
TW for many, including: rape, suicide idealation, mental illness/depression, instances of homophobia, and the many, many illnesses and levels of disability the book covers. I’m glad to have read it. -
jag störde mig på introt som jämförde funkofobi och rasism på ett väldigt förenklat sätt (från en vit persons perspektiv) och vissa texter var såklart bättre än andra men överlag en så himla viktig bok!!!
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I didn't care for any of the longer works. Enjoyed the poems though. And always nice to read about people similar to and also different from me.
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305.90808 Q11 2015
