I am incredibly grateful to the Autostraddle writers who contributed to this roundtable. Reading stories from other people with similar experiences helped me start to love these parts of myself, even when sometimes my chronic illnesses make me feel like my body definitely doesn’t love me. I spent a long time being ashamed of both my queerness and my disabilities. I wanted to host this roundtable to bring visibility to the wide variety of ways disability shows up in the queer community and how it intersects with other identities and experiences. Ableism is entrenched in every facet of society, from language to physical access needs and work and fitness culture. Like queerness, coming to terms with a disability can require confronting your internalized oppression and finding a way to love yourself in the face of systemic ableism. Disability is more than a legally protected class, it includes a complex range of ways that bodies, minds, and spirits can exist in and engage with the world, from neurodiversity to mental illness to physical, sensory, digestive, learning, and other differences.ĭisability Pride can be complicated. Disabled people are said to make up more than one-third of the LGBTQ community, but that includes a wide range of experiences. July is Disability Pride Month, in its 32nd year after the first celebration following the passage of the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) in July 1990. The 200 Best Lesbian, Bisexual & Queer Movies Of All Time.

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