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Jan. 14th, 2011 10:19 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
sasha_featherI am reading Crip Theory: Cultural Signs of Queerness and Disability by Robert McRuer, which is an academic text. Therefore, a bit dense, and I don't have the academic background for it (I am a scientist), but I love it.
I am on page 23 and he just excoriated the film As Good as it Gets. I heart you, Robert McRuer. He took a few shots at Titanic as well.
He's talked about the invisibility of heterosexuality and able-bodiedness, and both of those have been defined by their opposites. Thus, compulsory heterosexuality is analogous to compulsory able-bodiedness. He's making an argument that queer theory and disability theory are intertwined areas of study, are informed by and need each other.
There is lots more of this to come.
ETA: If you know of blog posts that examine queerness and disability, especially things that are good for 101-level and for undergraduates, please recommend them to me!
I am on page 23 and he just excoriated the film As Good as it Gets. I heart you, Robert McRuer. He took a few shots at Titanic as well.
He's talked about the invisibility of heterosexuality and able-bodiedness, and both of those have been defined by their opposites. Thus, compulsory heterosexuality is analogous to compulsory able-bodiedness. He's making an argument that queer theory and disability theory are intertwined areas of study, are informed by and need each other.
There is lots more of this to come.
ETA: If you know of blog posts that examine queerness and disability, especially things that are good for 101-level and for undergraduates, please recommend them to me!
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