Introduction : No more inspiration porn / Raymond Luczak -- Truth or dare / Bex -- The politics of pashing / Jax Jacki Brown -- Disability made me do it, or, Modeling for the cause / Kenny Fries -- Eight ways of being disabled in love ; Who killed Frida Kahlo? / Barbara Ruth -- Curvature : learning to stand up straight, or, Growing up sideways / Travis Chi Wing Lau -- All I have is the body ; Meeting Emily ; I chant ; Agirl through a hoop of gold / Kristen Ringman -- When love touches me / Sara Ibrahim -- When you saw me ; Don't forget your badge ; That day ; What it means to fall / Mark Ellis -- Outcast : deaf, gay, Christian / Joel Gates -- An incomplete story ; F.U.C.K. / AshleyVolion -- "Can you feel that?" / Andrew Morrison-Gurza -- A prayer for the nonreligious autistic ; I do not wantchildren / Lucas Scheelk -- Prom dresses and popcorn / Monique Flynn -- Hear me out / Allison Fradkin--
How I got disabled / Donna Minkowitz -- Possession / D. Allen -- Limp / Gregory Villa -- Vagina resigning ; Spell for the hairy girl ; Prematurity ; SaraEve's skull ; Advice for the able-bodied poet entering a disability poetics workshop / Liv Mammone -- Missing what you never had : autistic and queer / Kit Mead -- Switch ; Scars ; Perfume of the desert ; Hidden ; Aerial view of the terrain ; Seeing bone ; tenderest of gifts / Arthur Durkee -- Deaf:Gay / Christopher Dempsey -- Torch ; He called me bear / Michael Russell -- The worst, most faithful friend / Nola Weber -- Bodylanguage ; Dressing the wound ; Beauty and variations / Kenny Fries -- Twenty-seven Nadines / Kristen Ringman -- The use of blindness in the text ; Shadowland / Marika Prokosh -- Love me, love my ostomy / Tak Hallus-- Flashback, porchlight, and rivers / Cyrée Jarelle Johnson -- They called it mercy / Jason T. Ingram --
Invisible within the ten percent / Maverick Smith -- Charité / Quintan Ana Wikswo -- The changeling / David Cummer -- Our son is a beautiful girl / Carl Wayne Denney -- Perspectiva ; With all due respect / Travis Chi Wing Lau -- Learning the words / Toranse Lowell -- On inheritance / Whittier Strong -- Hands ; Fellowship ; Scene ; Bent / James Schwartz -- The ides of April / Barbara Ruth -- lapse / The Poet Spiel -- The caretaker / Mark Ellis -- Necessary action ; Dreaming awake ; Night swimming / John R. Killacky -- A deaf sapiosexual's reflections / Beatrice Hale -- Love at first sight ; Mind's eye ; Blind porn ; If I were a boy ; A pulp fiction ; Want / Kathi Wolfe -- A collection of thorns / D. Allen -- Ancient pauses / Christopher Dempsey -- A girl for us / John Whittier Treat -- On what I didn't hear you say / Meg Day -- Gracious pain / Brenna Cyr -- Almost solstice / Stephanie Heit & Petra Kuppers -- The worst husband youcan imagine / Larry Connolly -- My first kill ; Savages/ Raymond Luczak -- How not to plan disability conferences, (or, How to be an ableist asswipe while planning a disablity conference) / Lydia Brown -- How much can you hear? ; What is the worth of my life? ; No longer an impossible dream / Donna Williams -- Learning to fall in love / Katharina Love -- Intersections ; I want to go down ; Unbend you straight ; Unrequited love (from my wheelchair to a shopping trolley) / Jax Jacki Brown -- Hands that work / Zak Plum
Featuring fiction, poetry, nonfiction, and comics by 48 writers from around the world, QDA: A Queer Disability Anthology proves that intersectionality isn't just a buzzword. 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. Here is a gathering of people with the transformative--and political--power of love that transcends gender and ability
