Crip Theory: Cultural Signs of Queerness and Disability by Robert McRuer is a queer reading of disability studies (or is it a disability reading of queer theory?...not sure, but so interesting!).
Here's a quote cited in the first chapter from Gloria Anzaldua, a black feminist, from her 1981 book This Bridge Called My Back:
"We are the queer groups, the people that don't belong anywhere, not in the dominant world nor completely within our own respective cultures. Combined we cover so many oppressions. But the overwhelming oppression is the collective fact that we do not fit, and because we do not fit we are a threat."
Jon has complained about "not fitting." I wonder if he has ever considered this as a form of power.
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