The exploration of the intersection between queer identities and disability.
Ableism: Understanding the ways in which able-bodied individuals marginalize people with disabilities, and how it intersects with the queer community.
Accessibility: Examining how lack of access to physical spaces, technology, and communication affects people with disabilities.
Bisexuality: Exploring how bisexuality as an identity is impacted by societal attitudes towards both bisexuality and disability.
Crip Theory: Analyzing the ways in which disability shapes our understandings of body, identity, and society.
Gender: Understanding how the intersection of gender and disability shapes one's experiences and community.
Intersex: Understanding how intersex people experience marginalization and how their experiences intersect with queerness and disability.
LGBTQIA+ identity formation: Examining how queer and disabled people navigate identity politics.
Medicalization of disability: Analyzing the ways in which the medical establishment pathologizes disability and how this affects queer disabled individuals.
Neurodiversity: Examining the ways in which different cognitive abilities are valued in society and how neurodiverse people experience marginalization.
Sexuality: Understanding how queer and disabled people navigate sexual identities and the barriers that exist to sexual expression.
Social determinants of health: Analyzing how social factors such as poverty, stigma, and discrimination affect the health outcomes of queer disabled individuals.
Transgender: Understanding how disability shapes the experiences and identities of transgender people.
Trauma: Examining how trauma affects queer and disabled individuals and how community and social support can impact the healing process.
Universal design: Exploring the ways in which design can better address the diverse needs of people with disabilities.
Violence and abuse: Understanding the ways in which queer and disabled people experience violence and abuse, and how these experiences intersect.
Intersectionality: This field explores the intersection of disability and queer identities, examining how these identities interact and how society treats individuals who hold both identities.
Ableism: The study of ableism and its impact on individuals with disabilities, including those who identify as queer.
Crip Theory: This theoretical framework examines how the concept of "normalcy" is constructed and enforced in society, particularly with regard to disability and queerness.
Disability Justice: A social justice framework that emphasizes the need to center the voices and experiences of disabled individuals in all areas of life, including the LGBTQ+ community.
Transgender Disability Studies: This field explores the experiences of transgender individuals with disabilities, examining the unique challenges they face and how society can better support them.
Fat Studies: This area of study examines the stigmatization of fatness and how it intersects with disability and queerness.
Deaf Studies: An interdisciplinary field that examines Deaf culture, language, and identity, among other topics.
Neuroqueer Studies: This emerging field explores the intersection of neurodiversity and queerness, examining the experiences and perspectives of individuals who identify as both queer and neurodivergent.