Cripping Intersex

Cripping Intersex explores the political, discursive, and embodied connections between intersex and disability to develop a radically innovative approach to intersex studies and activism.

Celeste E. Orr is a research associate at the University of Ottawa. Their research has been featured in Feminist Theory; From Band-Aids to Scalpels: Motherhood Experiences in/of Medicine; Boyhood Studies: An Interdisciplinary Journal; Mothering, Mothers, and Sport: Experiences, Representations, Resistances; and Connecting, Rethinking and Embracing Difference. Orr was a finalist for the Pierre Laberge Prize for Achievement in the Humanities.

I am rarely as excited about a text as I am about this one. It provides a corrective to the usual narratives inside the humanities and social sciences when they pick up intersex as a “shiny toy” used to make (usually essentialist) arguments for the liberation of other groups, only for intersex itself to end up neglected. The book invites conversation instead of foreclosing upon it. It is outstanding.

David A. Rubin, author of Intersex Matters: Biomedical Embodiment, Gender Regulation, and Transnational Activism:

Conceptually sharp, theoretically capacious, meticulously researched, and wonderfully written, Cripping Intersex demonstrates the possibilities and promises of a crip approach to intersex.