ABSTRACT
Unbreaking Our Hearts: Cultures of Un/desirability and the Transformative Potential of Queercrip Porn was a research project that brought together a small group of queercrips interested in the operation of cultures of undesirability and participating in the collaborative production of queercrip porn. This project sought to interrogate and illuminate cultures of undesirability and explore the ways that the collaborative production of queercrip porn presents opportunities for disruption and transformation. This chapter shares some of this research by first discussing four interrelated aspects of cultures of undesirability: in/visibility, shame, exclusion and control. I then take up the ways that queercrip porn responds to these manifestations of cultures of undesirability. Vital to this work is Mingus’ conceptual framing of both “access intimacy” and “leaving evidence.” This research shows how enacting radical access, generating moments of access intimacy, and working to build interdependent community through practices of shared storytelling—all key components of disability justice—are needed for creating queercrip porn that makes necessary epistemological and political interventions. Interventions that open opportunities to build, live and flaunt otherwise, pushing against the harm, erasure and exclusion of cultures of undesirability.
(disability justice, access intimacy, interdependence, queercrip porn, intersectionality, resistance, cultures of undesirability)
