Pushing the Limits: Disabled Dykes Produce Culture

by Shelley Tremain (Editor)

Pushing the Limits is a path-breaking multi-media anthology of fiction, personal narrative, poetry, song, and artwork by disabled dykes. Taking cultural space for their language and art, Anne-Marie Alonzo, Sherree Clark, Laura Hershey, Audre Lorde, Mary Frances Platt, Sherry Shute, Shahnaz Stri, Frances Yip Hoi, and others, challenge exclusionary notions about who counts as a dyke, and subvert pervasive stereotypes about disabled people. In doing so, these writers and artists enrich queer communities, and contribute to the efforts of anti-ablest and other disability activists. Finally, an autonomous, self-contained collection of cultural work by disabled dykes, Pushing the Limits is compelling, provocative, and affirming.

Genres: Disability, Queer, Poetry, Nonfiction, LGBT

246 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 1996

Reviews

[Sucre · Rating 5 out of 5]

I highlighted and tabbed so much of this I might as well have highlighted every line. When I first picked this up in a used bookstore, I opened it to a random page and was moved to tears by a poem about living with arthritis. This is a necessary read for any disabled woman but especially disabled lesbians and bi women.

[Three O'Clock Press]

Pushing the Limits is a path-breaking multimedia anthology of fiction, personal narrative, poetry, song, and artwork by disabled dykes.