It’s not buyer’s remorse if people warned you the whole time.

Notes From A Queer Cripple: How to Cultivate Queer Disabled Joy (and Be Hot While Doing It!) Amazon.com: Notes From A Queer Cripple: How to Cultivate Queer Disabled Joy (and Be Hot While Doing It!): 9781839978180: Gurza, Andrew: Books

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on this first anniversary of my book, could i ask you all (who have read it) to leave a review on goodreads, netgalley or amazon. this would help the book get read

Andrew Gurza: Consultant, Speaker, Podcaster & Author Andrew Gurza is an award-winning disability awareness consultant, speaker, podcaster, and author of the book Notes From a Queer Cripple: How to Cultivate Queer Disabled Joy (and Be Hot While Doing It!...

let me re-introduce myself

* severely disabled, power wheelchair user
* former canadian tv celeb
* author / public speaker / podcaster
* queer / non-binary
* fights for sexuality and disability
* nerdy as fuck
* disability justice for all
* hot

find out more at www.andrewgurza.ca

Happy 1 year anniversary to my book Notes From A Queer Cripple. I’m so proud of this book, and its subject matter. When do we ever hear about queer disabled people and their sex? Hardly ever. In my book, you do.

you havent been with the best disabled guy lol

been with a disabled guy before?

yes please big bro

room for me?

If you want to make your experience of disability a “teachable moment” every time, I’m happy for you; go, do it, enjoy. But, do not put that expectation or requirement on another person with disabilities. Disabled people with lower support needs need to listen to those with higher support needs.

please listen

Thank you so much for sharing this!! I really appreciate it!!

Astronauts Victor Glover and Christina Koch in their orange astronaut suits as they sit inside the side of a helicopter after it has landed

LOL, trying to stay offline and do my work, and friends are sending me

"LOOK AT THIS NEW PIC!" texts ....

This one is worth it.

First PoC and first woman to go around another world. Don't stop talking about this point. It's important.

#ArtemisII

i'd love to chat more

we all have a lot of work to do to see disabled people as human beings. how do I know this? the amount of times I have been asked, "can you have sex?" or been told, "you've inspired me to change my life".

disabled people have intimacy... AND are flawed, hard, annoying, not just inspiring.

i like your face

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Not even a little bit

Update: My benefits case worker ‘accidentally’ added an extra $1,000.00 to my file last month, totaling $3,000.00 when I only made 2,000.00... most of which has gone to pay for things like eating and rent. He “doesn’t know how that happened”, and I had to ‘prove’ I didn’t report it. Non-disabled people should never have been put in charge of benefit systems. *laughs in legislated poverty*

read this

Andrew smiling and holding a copy of their signed book. They are in their wheelchair wearing a bright orange jacket.

I got to sign copies of my book at @comeasyouareco.bsky.social with @nillinlore.bsky.social and @andreazanin.bsky.social

So cool.

If you're in Toronto, they have a few signed copies.

The concerning thing is that he thinks this makes sense and is a good point.

I am a freelancer. Last month I made an extra $1,000 doing the work I do. I reported this to my benefits caseworker. He advised last week that while my benefit amount for next month would be lower than usual, as expected, I’d still get the benefit. Last night, I see that my file has been put on hold because I made “too much”. Conveniently, I can’t get hold of my worker today. The limbo disabled people on benefits have to go through trying to work is exhausting and dehumanizing.

benefit systems are dehumanizing.

April 8 🧳 Unpacking Internalization, dialogue with Mx. Nilln Lore, And Mx. Nillin Lore in conversation with Andrew Gurza, hosted by Andrea Zanin at Come As You Are, 254 Augusta Ave in Toronto on Wednesday April 8, 7-9PM!  Join Mx. Nillin Lore and Andrew Gurza for an inti...

#Toronto pals! Wednesday night, April 8, 7 pm, come to @comeasyouareco.bsky.social to hear readings from @nillinlore.bsky.social and @andrewgurza.ca on internalized transphobia, queerphobia and ableism, and take part in a discussion moderated by me! Plz share! 💚
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"Andrew disability isn't your whole personality though."

[gestures wildly at my power wheelchair, my spastic hands, my inability to independently do much of anything for myself]

me: "oh, it sure fucking is".

It's okay to make your disability your whole personality. Promise.

#ICYMI From fan music videos and AIM screen names in college to her brand new album (Story’s End), Maria Taylor’s music has been such a soundtrack to my life. I really enjoyed our intimate (and outdoors!) conversation on See Jurassic Right: podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/p...

can we just admire how fucking hot you are please

My therapist asked me last week, “What are the key things that I wanted to focus on in therapy?” and it was so refreshing to say, “Right now, I just like having a place to say things.” In the first two weeks, I have already felt less anxious.

Severely disabled people deserve access to spaces too... and so much of accessibility doesn't account for their access needs at all.

My next pick up line:

"I need some physical therapy.... wanna help?

there’s always going to be other disabled people who don’t fully support the way some disabled people exist. Exist anyway.