This paper considers young disabled women navigating ableist and heteronormative constructs of adult womanhood. We consider adult womanhood at the embodied intersection of gender, sexuality and dis/ability (categories themselves mediated by race, class, coloniality, etc.). For young disabled women, questions of gender and sexuality were more often than not denied. Gendered and sexual identities were therefore politically and strategically used to claim “adult” and “woman.” Yet, such identities often felt restricted to binary gendered frameworks. Already positioned through ableism as non-normative, to exist outside of heteronormativity felt dangerous, risking paternalism and non-consensual bodily intervention. Drawing on the cases of Ashley X and Marie Adams, we argue that these dangers are often more severe for those with labels of intellectual impairment and/or considered to have the most “severe” impairments. Adulthood needs to be understood, not as a natural state of development (the endpoint of youth), but as a heteronormative and ableist socio-cultural-political construct, as well as a complex site of negotiation, conflict and resistance, which (differently) restricts how young people are able to become in the world. We fill a gap in scholarship by exploring the intersection of critical disability studies, crip theory and youth studies from a feminist perspective.

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成为懂事的女人：青年边缘地带的性别、残疾和抵抗

本文考虑了年轻的残疾女性在成年女性的能力论和异性恋建构中的运用。我们在性别、性取向和残疾/能力（类别本身以种族、阶级、殖民等为中介）的具体交叉点上考虑成年女性。对于年轻的残疾女性来说，性别和性取向的问题往往被否认。因此，性别和性身份在政治上和战略上被用来声称“成人”和“女人”。然而，这种身份常常被限制在二元性别框架中。已经通过能力主义定位为非规范性，存在于异性恋之外感到危险，冒着家长作风和未经同意的身体干预的风险。借鉴 Ashley X 和 Marie Adams 的案例，我们认为，对于那些贴有智力障碍标签和/或被认为具有最“严重”障碍的人来说，这些危险通常更为严重。成年需要被理解，而不是作为一种自然的发展状态（青年的终点），而是作为一个异性恋和能力主义的社会文化政治建构，以及一个复杂的谈判、冲突和抵抗场所，这（不同地）限制了年轻人如何成为世界上的人。我们通过从女权主义的角度探索批判性残疾研究、瘸子理论和青年研究的交叉点，填补了学术上的空白。以及一个复杂的谈判、冲突和抵抗场所，这（不同地）限制了年轻人如何成为世界上的人。我们通过从女权主义的角度探索批判性残疾研究、瘸子理论和青年研究的交叉点，填补了学术上的空白。以及一个复杂的谈判、冲突和抵抗场所，这（不同地）限制了年轻人如何成为世界上的人。我们通过从女权主义的角度探索批判性残疾研究、瘸子理论和青年研究的交叉点，填补了学术空白。