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Queer Disability through History (Hardback)

The Queer and Disabled Movements through their Personalities

P&S History > Social History

By Daisy Holder
Imprint: Pen & Sword History
Pages: 248
Illustrations: 24 mono illustrations
ISBN: 9781399050579
Published: 8th November 2024

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Persecuted, outlawed, imprisoned, shunned. You might think this refers only to the LGBTQ+ community, but their experience is remarkably closely aligned to the experience of the Disabled community.

This book examines the histories of these two movements are they ran alongside each other often intersecting. Both the Disabled and the LGBTQ+ movements have rich and intriguing pasts that date back beyond recorded history. As Holder explores the journey of these movements the journey highlights their shared history through the stories of the people who brought both into modern consciousness. They represent vital landmarks in the little-explored intersections between the two groups’ past and present.

Turn-of-the-century Mexican bisexual painter, Frida Kahlo, was Disabled by both polio and injury; Michelangelo turned his artistic talents toward homoerotic poetry to manage his arthritis. The iconic Marsha P Johnson lived with and cared for those with AIDs, and Dr Fryer, the psychiatrist with depression, has been credited with planting the seed that led to the removal of homosexuality from the American diagnostic manual of mental disorders. While many of these events seem small, they shape our Queer and Disability cultures and shared history, to show just how far we've come and how far we still have to go.

An enjoyable and informative book. There were a range of individuals discussed - both ones I had heard of and ones that I hadn't. Out of those that I had heard of before, there was a ton of information about them that I was unaware of. The book does a solid job of putting the individuals and their experiences into a greater context as well. Even as someone who has read about/engaged with disability advocacy for some years now, there were sections that helped me grasp areas of theory better than previously.

NetGalley, Nick Aucoin

Starting off, I loved that the book included a definition for disability at the beginning that was widely inclusive. It is such an interesting premise to dive into history through specific queer Disabled peoples’ lives! Immediately, they touch on how queer Disabled peoples’ identities are often separated into “queer” or “Disabled”, but both aspects are rarely examined together. They also mentioned how their own coverage of the issues may be biased and I appreciated how the author confronted their own biases this way. They did a wonderful job weaving in a lot of basic queer and disabled history to fill out the stories that this book told and it added some interesting context! All together, it made an enthralling read about disabled queer history!

NetGalley, Sarah Loyd

Rating: 5 out of 5 stars

This is an amazing book that focuses on The intersections between several groups, but predominantly those with disabilities that are also lgbtqia+.
Covering topics from Guardianship, Ethics in care, access issues and more it is a definitive guide to understanding these groups intersecting history and I feel should be a mandated read for all.

>From platforming icons both known and previously unknown (at least to me) for their contributions to policy, societal change, pride as we know it and so much more it is a fountain of knowledges.
Additionally it highlights Impacts on those in several minorities ie queer and disabled or BIPOC/and disabled.
One event which particularly stuck out to me was the Capital crawl. This being as it was such a visual and un-ignorable representation of the community and the need for Policy around queerness and disabilities to change to better protect them.

This includes fighting against past DSM psychotherapy definitions on homosexuality and transgenderism and ADA policy failing protecting those who were intersectional.
>From Deafness to chronic illness, To those disabled by events we see a broad range of disabilities and identities represented and it has an intersection with art as well as policy.

NetGalley, Jade Husdan-Hicks

Rating: 5 out of 5 stars

This is genuinely a must read. It talks about important queercrips in history and their importance but also connects it with other, queer and/or crip, history. As a queercrip who has talked about historical queercrips in the past, this anti-erasure book gave me so much joy.

NetGalley, Jax Davis

Rating: 5 out of 5 stars

This was a really poignant and important read. The way the author structured this book lead the reader through the intersection of disability and queerness -which has not previously been really talked about together even though the term intersectionality has been coined for a while. I liked how the author started with more famous queer folks - Frida and Marsha - and then expanded with other figures that might not have been well known in either the disability or queer communities but are now more understood. This is a great book for anyone who wants to learn more about queer or disability history (and will learn about both).

NetGalley, Lauren B

About Daisy Holder

Daisy Holder is a researcher, writer and archivist who specialises in disability history. Their work has focused on making disabled people's stories accessible to the community; online as well as in magazines, podcasts, books and museums. Daisy is a skilled communicator of the past and a passionate advocate of archiving and preservation, having set up Disability History Snapshots and the Covid Disability Archive and worked on numerous projects to raise awareness of disabled people's history and spread knowledge among the community. Born and raised in the west country of the UK, they can often be found playing social deduction games, crocheting and dressing as a 1990s Children's TV presenter, usually all at the same time.

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