The Feminist Porn Book: The Politics of Producing Pleasure (61 page)

After I screened
want
at a queer conference in Massachusetts, a young woman with a disability thanked me and told me she had never had a romantic relationship. She told me that before she saw my film, she never even thought it was a possibility for her.

This is the kind of porn I want more of. I want to keep making porn that opens up who and how we love and lust; opens up the ways we experience and understand bodies. I also want more people to make porn that tell our stories of resilience, resistance, and systemic change.

Notes

1
. Femmegimp and queercrip are reclaimed words, perspectives, experiences, and sometimes self chosen identities. For one articulation of what being a femmegimp means to me, see Loree Erickson, “Revealing Femmegimp: A Sex-Positive Reflection on Sites of Shame as Sites of Resistance for People with Disabilities,”
Atlantis
31, no. 2 (2007): 42.

2
. Tanya Titchkosky,
Reading and Writing Disability Differently: The Textured Life of Embodiment
(Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2007), 6.

3
. This is true of many experiences of marginalization. An easy comparison is made when looking at laws regarding marriage in the prohibition of interracial marriages, same-sex marriages, and so on.

4
. Lisa Blumberg, “Public Stripping,” in
The Ragged Edge: The Disability Experience from the Pages of the First Fifteen Years of the Disability Rag,
ed. Barrett Shaw (Lousiville, KY: Advocado Press, 1994), 77–81.

5
.
Willing and Able: Sex, Love and Disability,
directed by Lina Cino (Toronto: SexTV, 2003), videocassette.

6
. Abby Wilkerson, “Disability, Sex Radicalism, and Political Agency,”
NWSA Journal
14, no. 3 (2002): 45.

7
. Loree Erickson, “Revealing Femmegimp: A Sex-Positive Reflection on Sites of Shame as Sites of Resistance for People with Disabilities,”
Atlantis
31, no. 2 (2007): 42.

8
. Sarah Ahmed,
Queer Phenomenology: Orientations, Objects, Others
(Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2006).

9
. Janet Price and Margrit Shildrick, “Bodies Together: Touch, Ethics and Disability,” in
Disability/Postmodernity: Embodying Disability Theory,
eds. Mairian Corker and Tom Shakespeare (New York: Continuum, 2002).

10
. Samuel Lurie, “Loving You Loving Me: Tranny/Crip/Queer Love and Overcoming Shame in Relationships,” lecture, Queerness and Disability Conference, San Francisco State University, San Francisco, CA, June 2–3, 2002,
http://www.bentvoices.org/bentvoices/lurie_loving%20you.htm
.

11
. Eli Clare, “Sex, Celebration, and Justice: A Keynote for QD2002,” keynote speech, Queerness and Disability Conference, San Francisco State University, San Francisco, CA, June 3, 2002,
http://www.disabilityhistory.org/dwa/queer/paper_clare.html
.

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