Queer and crippled : a novel

Nicola Griffith's novel So Lucky (2018) exemplifies Queer-Crip theories through the portrayal of Mara, a lesbian woman diagnosed with multiple sclerosis. This dissertation claims that lesbian identities affect the formation, exposure and expression of selfhood of an impaired individual. In particular, it analyses queerness and impairment as victims of violence and hate crimes. I argue that Mara shapes the experience of her degenerative illness through previous events of assault and discrimination. Mara is unwilling to be defined as a weak woman after she is beaten up by two men. Similarly, she rejects the role of passive sufferer that society imposes on her after she is diagnosed with multiple sclerosis. Thus, this dissertation offers an insight to the life experience of Mara as a lesbian impaired woman