“In his book _Crip Theory_ (2007), Robert McRuer aligns queerness and disability, and the result is a repositioning of signs and bodies, a rethinking of queer theory, and a paradigm shift within disability studies. It is counterintuitive to many that anyone would WANT to align with disability or queerness. And, historically, these identity categories have been defined against yet through one another: homosexuality or nonnormative sexuality as some terrible disease or genetic flaw, people with disabilities as sexually inappropriate, over or undersexed, as “freaks.” For instance, Margrit Shildrick argues that disability’s “exclusion from the very notion of sexual subjectivity is so under-problematized that it is taken almost as a natural fact” (2009b, 116).”
— Disability Rhetoric (Critical Perspectives on Disability) by Jay Timothy Dolmage. (Kindle Locations 1386-1391). Syracuse University Press. Kindle Edition.
