eff-able
eff-able is conceived and run by myself and George Parker, and funded by a National Lottery Project Grant from Arts Council England.
The project aims to shine a spotlight on the lives and experiences of queer disabled people in the field of sexual play, desire, and sensuality from a positive perspective. Too often this marginalised community (within an already marginalised community) is portrayed as ‘less than’, unable, incapacitated and unsexy. We know this is not true!
eff-able is a project in two parts – an anthology of poetry from the best contemporary poets identifying as queer and disabled, and a touring showcase of this work partnering with local queer disabled community groups and performers – bringing our sexy a.f. LGBTQIA+ disabled bodies into queer spaces.
We will use this showcase as an opportunity to highlight good accessibility and practice in queer venues and spaces, as well as provide resources and links on this site to promote good accessibility and inclusion for disabled people in the queer community.
eff-able the anthology is OUT NOW from fourteen poems.
We have a whole host of fabulous events planned to celebrate this book and spotlight queer crip voices. You can find out more about them, the project as a whole and our marvellous (and sexy a.f.) contributors here: https://effable.uk/
Advance Praise for eff-able
“A delicious anthology that reasserts what we always knew: queer crips are hot as hell.”
— Lucy Webster, writer, journalist, Disability Rights Activist
“Whilst the government continues to fuck us from all angles, this anthology serves as a reminder that our disabled, queer, crip sex is an act of resistance. As a deaf, disabled trans person who thinks desire is at the heart of our existence, I am delighted by these pages of raunchy, liberated, unapologetic crip sex. This queer, deaf, trans person is unapologetically horny for this anthology.“
— Em Prendergast, actor
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