Reviews

QDA: A Queer Disability Anthology by Mark Ellis, Andrew Morrison-Gurza, Gregory Villa, Donna Minkowitz, John Whittier Treat, Lucas Scheelk, John R. Killacky, Arthur Durkee, Christopher Dempsey, Beatrice Hale, Jax Jacki Brown, Monique Flynn, Meg Day, Brenna Cyr, Barbara Ruth, Kit Mead, Travis Chi Wing Lau, Toranse Lowell, Larry Connolly, Sara Ibrahim, Quintan Ana Wikswo, D. Allen, Liv Mammone, James Schwartz, Kathi Wolfe, Donna Williams, Carl Wayne Denney, Kristen Ringman, Katharina Love, Marika Prokosh, Zak Plum, Kenny Fries, Tak Hallus, Jason T. Ingram, Michael Russell, David Cummer, Lydia Brown, The Poet Spiel, Nola Weber, Stephanie Heit, Raymond Luczak, Bex, Petra Kuppers, Cyrée Jarelle Johnson, Ashley Volion, Joel Gates, Allison Fradkin, Maverick Smith, Whittier Strong

andymoon's review

3.0

I didn't care for any of the longer works. Enjoyed the poems though. And always nice to read about people similar to and also different from me.

mxpringle's review

challenging informative reflective slow-paced

2.75

I think I enjoyed this overall, and I love the concept of having an anthology filled with queer disabled voices, however, some of the actual quality of the pieces was highly variable for different authors and works within the anthology. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Ableism

Moderate: Emotional abuse, Terminal illness, Sexual harassment, and Sexual assault

sjbshannon's review

5.0

4.5/5. Some pieces are better reads than others.

ecnolte's review

challenging dark emotional funny informative reflective sad slow-paced

A great book to read as a whole or to pick and choose a few works from some of your favorite artists and/or activists 

tyler_j's review

emotional hopeful informative reflective

3.75

A mix of nonfiction, fiction, poetry, a comic .... 48 contributors, 97 stories. I did rate each one and it equaled out to 3.62, i'll round up to 3.75 because some of these really struck me hard and personally. All by people who are queer *and* disabled ... like I am. I am so very glad I read this and highly recommend it. 

aquaboi's review

challenging emotional funny hopeful informative reflective sad fast-paced

4.25

gay's review

medium-paced

3.0

moonbook's review

3.0

TW: sex sence
I enjoy it but the main issue is that some of them felt weird to rate due being about their life, also if you going to read the e-book (like I did) some stories or poetry look different than the physical copy and they said every time (I don't what is the difference).
But I think important to see people who are queer but also with disables

aimiller's review

informative reflective slow-paced

3.0

An interesting collection; I think in some ways the huge, huge reach of it was helpful (you get many perspectives, a ton of different ways that people understand themselves in their own disabilities, as well as their own relationships to queerness) and in other ways it was kind of a hinderance. There was just so much and a lot of it felt a little whiplash-y. I'm not sure it's a collection I would recommend reading all together, though I think it can definitely be a resource for folks looking to add queer disabled writing to like a syllabus or something like that. Some of it I really enjoyed, some of it was thought provoking, and some of it was kind of just okay, but I think worth having read across the board.