Hey, you're listening to LGBTQ&A. I'm Jeffrey Masters, and today I'm speaking with Andrew Gersa,

who, among other things, is a disability rights activist. These last few weeks have been a sort of

unofficial LGBTQ sex ed series on the podcast, and we are capping that off this week with Andrew, who really seeks

to shine a light and clarify all the misinformation around the sex with those with disabilities.

So we discuss that as well as ableism in and out of the community, and how it's literally everywhere,

even in things I say on the podcast, as you'll hear.

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All right, without further ado, here's Andrew.

So you have a new tattoo that says queer cripple.

We talk a lot about labels on the podcast.

Can you talk about choosing to self-identify as a cripple?

I love that terminology so much because it is a really, really derogatory word from hundreds and hundreds of years ago that actually

longer than that when I think about it.

And it means, you know, invalid and bad and, like, lesser than.

And so I like playing with that.

For me, the whole word cripple means like, I'm taking it back.

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