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This article offers a strategy for applying queer and critical disability theory to American political development (APD). Queer and critical disability theorists deconstruct the use of biological categories to organize human life. Both theories argue that difference is not immanent to the body, but, rather, humans are racialized, gendered, disabled, and made different through social processes for the purpose of legitimating differential treatment. How can APD scholars use their expertise in constitutional law, social policy, and institutional development to address the historical politics of biological essentialism? Briefly drawing from my research on early twentieth-century eugenics policies in the state of California, I demonstrate a shift in methodology that interrogates the effects and stakes of biological categorization in US political history. Acting to “aid and abet” the historical resistance of deviant people, I offer an alternative queer and crip timeline that may help us to unlearn the present.

Aiding and abetting the unruly past: queer and critical disability approaches to American political development