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Queer Theory and "Cripping Incest Discourses(s)"

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The Unchoosing Disability of Humans

The prohibition of incest is an example of a strategy that works to ensure the unchosing of disabledness. The power of the incest taboo suggests that choosing and unchosing are not even options. Choosing disabledness results in reactions of disgust, shock,. horror and disbelief at a who's of hatred and practices of stigma, marginalization and violence. We cannot select which examples of choosing and unchose dis slash abledness we should fight for. Rather, we must fight against the creation of monocultures of abledness across all guises. Make room for our weirdo reflections and possibilities. Disabled bodies like all bodies are changeable, revizable, unruly and cryptetherium

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