Useful Websites

[David Hosobuchi]

Use this thread for posting other websites relevent to this forum....:)

[Maxs9th]

Here are a few websites that might be interesting

http://www.lgbthealth.net/

http://www.curvemag.com/Detailed/401.html

http://www.disabilityhistory.org/dwa/library_k.html

http://www.gayhealth.com/templates/1161986741227337005082/index

http://www.gimpgirl.com/

[Yorb]

BENT: A Journal of CripGay Voices

http://www.bentvoices.org/1999/07/about_bent.html

"BENT is the place where disability and queerness meet head-on.

BENT is committed to bringing you one thing only: a mirror of your selves.

BENT is by and for cripgay men. Not every BENT feature will be written by a man who is disabled and gay, nor necessarily by a man at all. Writers of different identities and allegiances --women, straight writers, nondisabled writers, transgendered crips-- may have important things to say to us. When they do, you'll find that there's space for their ideas here.

BENT is the voice of cripgay men, but BENT also covers disability art and culture, gay and straight, to prove that our differentness and our need for inclusiveness can coexist. BENT was born of the cripgay experience, but BENT is not limited by the cripgay experience.

BENT aims to provoke, delight, amaze & offend you.

Get ready

Get BENT!"

[AncientWolf]

BENT: A Journal of CripGay Voices

http://www.bentvoices.org/1999/07/about_bent.html

"BENT is the place where disability and queerness meet head-on.

BENT is committed to bringing you one thing only: a mirror of your selves.

BENT is by and for cripgay men. Not every BENT feature will be written by a man who is disabled and gay, nor necessarily by a man at all. Writers of different identities and allegiances --women, straight writers, nondisabled writers, transgendered crips-- may have important things to say to us. When they do, you'll find that there's space for their ideas here.

BENT is the voice of cripgay men, but BENT also covers disability art and culture, gay and straight, to prove that our differentness and our need for inclusiveness can coexist. BENT was born of the cripgay experience, but BENT is not limited by the cripgay experience.

BENT aims to provoke, delight, amaze & offend you.

Get ready

Get BENT!"


I'm not too fond of the term "crip" personally. Maybe it's because I've heard it used waaaaaay too often as an insult towards a disabled person, maybe it's because I live in California and the first thing that comes to mind is the street gang "the Crips". I guess if people identify with that term and get strength from it I shouldn't complain, but I guarantee I will cringe everytime I hear that term used in this way.

Namaste,

Daniel

[graymalkin]

I hear you, Daniel, but my take on it is different. As a matter of fact, my first online name was "cripsie"...as in crippled pixie.

Some of us have co-opted the once negative name "crip" in the same way that we now use "queer," or as some in the African American community use the N word among themselves. It's a matter of taking back our power from those in the dominant society who sought (and still seek) to disrespect and marginalize us.

Oh, and BTW, I'm from California too. ;)

graymalkin