Editing Disability studies (section)

=== Queer theory ===
[[Queer studies]], which emerged from [[women's studies]], brings light towards the different kind of oppression [[queer]] and [[transgender]] people with disabilities have. Queer studies are commonly associated with people with disabilities who identify as "Crip" and is commonly believed that queer politics must incorporate crip politics.<ref>{{Cite web|last=McRuer |first=Robert |title=Cripping Queer Politics, or the Dangers of Neoliberalism |website=S&F Online |url=http://sfonline.barnard.edu/a-new-queer-agenda/cripping-queer-politics-or-the-dangers-of-neoliberalism/ |issue=10.1–10.2 |date=Fall 2011 – Spring 2012}}</ref> Alison Kafer describes a first-person experience of identifying queer and crip both reappropriated terms in Kafer's ''Feminist Queer Crip''. Kafer describes the politics of the crip future and "an insistence on thinking these imagined futures — and hence, these lived presents — differently".<ref name=Kafer13/>

An aspect of disability studies that is not often talked about is that of the perception of seeing disabled individuals as invisible.<ref name=":5">{{Cite journal|last=Pieri|first=Mara|title=The Sound that You Do not See. Notes on Queer and disabled Invisibility|url=https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007%2Fs12119-018-9573-8|journal=Sexuality & Culture|year=2019|volume=23|issue=2|pages=558–570|doi=10.1007/s12119-018-9573-8|hdl=10316/83472|s2cid=150327003|via=Gender Studies|hdl-access=free}}</ref> Also known as "queer/disabled invisibility".<ref name=":5" /> In disability studies the individuals who are disabled who make it into academic course work are usually the ones who struggle not only with being disabled and facing ableist norms of society but they also have to contend with other identities such as being queer, a woman or a person of another race other than cis-gendered white male in America. Queer/disabled invisibility can also come up in forms of negative perceptions about the way a disabled individual is being raised. For instance, queer mothers raising a disabled child are often viewed as the cause of the child's disability.<ref>{{Cite journal|last=Gibson|first=Margaret|date=2018|title=Subtle Neglect and Yuckiness: Queerness, Disability and Contagion in Mother Narratives|journal=Feminist Formations|volume=30|issue=1 |pages=117–140|doi=10.1353/ff.2018.0006|s2cid=149587802|via=Gender Watch}}</ref> Another example of queer and disabled negativity is highlighted in the life experiences of Josie, a young woman who does not identify as a particular gender, living with a lifelong illness and disability.<ref name=":4" /> This young woman describes how she experienced sexism, ableism, homophobia and transphobia in a number of ways at her university, the queer community and medical providers because of her disability. The discrimination the women in these examples is part of the heteronormative, ableistic perspective in societies around the world today but are rarely discussed in the literature or during disability studies courses.