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Mairs was born on July 23, 1943, in Long Beach, California. [1] She was diagnosed with multiple sclerosis (MS) when she was 28, and began using a wheelchair soon after. [1] She wrote several essays on her experiences as a self-described "cripple", including "On Being a Cripple," "Sex and the Gimpy Girl," and the memoir Waist High in the World. [1]
Cripple "A person with a physical or mobility impairment". Its shortened form ("crip") has been reclaimed by some people with disabilities as a positive identity. [6] [7] [17] [24] Confined to a wheelchair: Implies helplessness, and that someone is to be pitied. [7]
Nancy Mairs (1964– ) Carnal Acts (1990) On Being a Cripple; Terry Tempest-Williams (1955– ) The Clan of One-Breasted Women (1991) Minnie Bruce Pratt (1946– ) Gender Quiz (1995) Dorothy Allison (1949– ) Two or Three Things I Know for Sure (1995) Nomy Lamm (1976– ) self-described “fat-ass bad-ass Jew dyke amputee.”
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