The Electricity of Wanting: An Intimate Portrait of Queer, Crip Sex

There is a prevalent social myth that disabled people are void of sexual desire. This article, written from the perspective of two disabled, queer humans, offers an intimate portrait of queer crip sex. This portrait, constituted through queered, cripped sensual ways of knowing, utilizes autotheoretical artistic methods. It offers analysis of an art artifact which relays the lived experiences of its authors—through poems, photos, doodles, journal entries, and more—put in conversation with disability scholarship concepts, including interdependency/dependency and crip time, to illuminate the cripistemological thread that weaves its way across time, space, bodies, and our desires so share this essential knowledge.