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Disability intimacy : essays on love, care, and desire / edited by Alice Wong.

Wong, Alice, 1974- (editor.). Queen, Khadijah, (author.). Nishida, Akemi, (author.). Samuels, Ellen (Ellen Jean), (author.). Piepzna-Samarasinha, Leah Lakshmi, 1975- (author.). Schalk, Samantha Dawn, (author.). Franklin, Tee, (author.). Ortiz, Naomi, (author.). Hamraie, Aimi, (author.). Shew, Ashley, 1983- (author.). Ware, Syrus Marcus, (author.). Nijkamp, Marieke, (author.). Bailey, Moya, (author.).

Summary:

"What is intimacy? More than sex, more than romantic love, the pieces in this stunning and illuminating new anthology offer broader and more inclusive definitions of what it can mean to be intimate with another person. Explorations of caregiving, community, access, and friendship offer us alternative ways of thinking about the connections we form with others--a vital reimagining in an era when forced physical distance is at times a necessary norm. But don't worry: there's still sex to consider--and the numerous ways sexual liberation intersects with disability justice. Plunge between these pages and you'll also find disabled sexual discovery, disabled love stories, and disabled joy. These twenty-five stunning original pieces--plus other modern classics on the subject, all carefully curated by acclaimed activist Alice Wong--include essays, photo essays, poetry, drama, and erotica: a full spectrum of the dreams, fantasies, and deeply personal realities of a wide range of beautiful bodies and minds. Disability Intimacy will free your thinking, invigorate your spirit, and delight your desires." -- Provided by publisher.

Record details

ISBN: 9780593469736
ISBN: 0593469739
Physical Description: xx, 363 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm
Publisher: New York : Vintage Books, a division of Penguin Random House, LLC, 2024.
Copyright: ©2024

Content descriptions

Formatted Contents Note:

Part I. Love and care -- Unspooling / Nicole Lee Schroeder -- Rosasharon teaches me to breathe : on animals, disabilities, and intimacies / Ada Hubrig -- Last walk / Melissa Hung -- My journey to motherhood : a parenting odyssey / Marie E. S. Flores -- To the you that used to be home : an anatomy of disabled heartbreak / Mia Mingus -- Care during COVID : photo essay on interdependence / Kennedy Healy and Marley Molkentin -- This is my solemn vow / Maria Town -- Exhaustion of pretense and the illusions of care / Khadijah Queen -- Most valuable thing I can teach my kid is how to be lazy / Elliot Kukla -- What getting my first Milwaukee back brace was like / Ingrid Tischer -- Igniting our power by reclaiming intimacy / Ashley Volion and Akemi Nishida -- Primary attachment / Yomi Sachiko Wrong -- Poem : elegy for a mask mandate / Ellen Samuels -- Part II. Pleasure and desire -- Skin hunger and the taboo of wanting to be touched / s.e. smith -- Know me where it hurts : sex, kink, and cerebral palsy / Carrie Wade -- Staring at curvature / Travis Chi Wing Lau -- republics of desire : disabled lineages of longing / Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha -- Strange love via crip with a whip / Robin Wilson-Beattie -- Pleasure is the point : on becoming a pleasure artist / Sami Schalk -- How I'm navigating play parties as a disabled, immunocompromised kinkster / Jade T. Perry -- Hi, are you single? / Ryan J. Haddad -- Poem : doppelganger / Cyree Jarelle Johnson -- Part III. Creativity and power -- Soa / Pelenakeke Brown -- My journey with beadwork / Sarah A. Young Bear-Brown -- Disabled queer love exists / Tee Franklin -- Letters I never sent / Sjal A. Shah -- "many of whom have never been and are like me and feel alienated by it" : access intimacy in archives / Gracen Brilmyer -- Love letter to London / Emilie L. Gossiaux -- Crip ecologies : complicate the conversation to reclaim power / Naomi Ortiz -- Poem : top secret club abjection / Ashna Ali -- Part IV. Everything and everywhere -- an incantation. / Aimi Hamraie -- Leg chapter / Ashley Shew -- First of all, I love you / Dr. Syrus Marcus Ware -- Profoundly together / The Redwoods -- Strange new worlds and other love languages / Marieke Nijkamp -- Crip class / Gabrielle Peters -- A tale of three hospitals / Jaipreet Virdi -- Dreaming of Black disability doulas : an imagining / Moya Bailey -- Thirteen considerations of the holy bug / Claude Olson.