Pushing the Limits: Disabled Dykes Produce Culture
Addressing the power and importance of language, graphically illustrating the misuse of power, corruption and convenience that governs the medical profession, and questioning the passive disinterest of our non-disabled sisters, Pushing the Limits is both painful and celebratory. Far from a rant about the inevitable oppression of living with societal "norms" and institutionalised "isms", this anthology is sensitive, intelligent and questioning. Each disabled dyke in her own unique way has...
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Addressing the power and importance of language, graphically illustrating the misuse of power, corruption and convenience that governs the medical profession, and questioning the passive disinterest of our non-disabled sisters, Pushing the Limits is both painful and celebratory. Far from a rant about the inevitable oppression of living with societal "norms" and institutionalised "isms", this anthology is sensitive, intelligent and questioning. Each disabled dyke in her own unique way has contributed to that developing phenomenon that we know is disabled dyke culture.
Acknowledgements13Introduction: We're Here. We're Disabled and Queer. Get Used to It15Mother/daughter27On Being29To the bone31Spoons32Untitled33Mastectomy35Mirror Image36Lost in the Swamp38The hand that grasps40Untitled45The good mother52Green Beans and the Blue Angel54Body Shield61Love Isn't65Her Gift To Me Is A Window67Full day70"...and I will have sex again"72Love Pain and the Fading of Orchids77Liberation81To My Other Bodies85Thursday Afternoon and the Laws of the Universe87Caretaker Nightmares91Snake Woman92Lament to the Medical-Industrial Division of the Capitalist Patriarchal95She worked99Asthmatic Conditions100Anger105Sleight of Hand106Stop Feeling or You'll Never Be Normal Again: My Life With Cancer Since Lump Day107Rejection131And yet such a small word132I Am Your Sister135Indomitable Spirits Unbroken136Mae Still Be Alive138Muscle Fetish141This Ability143Things That I Hear Too Many Times (Speaking of Fear)144Remedies148The Queen of Pain150Oxygenated Babe152Which map is not whose territory?154Poster Kids No More164Passing166Bird Spirit171And Still I Fight172Rain Woman188Hospital Green: The Psych Ward190Survival, Silence and the Obvious Remains192Homeless198Lockout203Connections204Seizure206Melody Heartbeat of a Black Deaf Woman211A Virtual Harvest212Aknoha219Clay Woman221Post-mastectomy Fantasy223Passages from A Burst of Light224Other Cultural Work of Interest to Disabled Dykes229Contributors237
