Building a Community for Queer Disability Studies: Lessons from the Snail

Humphrey, Harvey; Slater, Tig; Fountain, Edmund Coleman; Jones, Charlotte

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Building a Community for Queer Disability Studies: Lessons from the Snail

Harvey Humphrey

, Tig Slater, Edmund Coleman Fountain

, Charlotte Jones

Canadian Journal of Disability Studies, Volume: 12, Issue: 1, Pages: 1 - 26

Swansea University Author: Charlotte Jones

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This article describes the Queer Disability Studies Network, a space set up for Queer Disability Studies academics and activists to find solidarity, particularly those experiencing marginalisation due to queerphobia, transphobia, intersexphobia and ableism in Disability, Queer, Trans and Intersex St...

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Published in:	Canadian Journal of Disability Studies
ISSN:	1929-9192
Published:	2023
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