Convenient Discrimination offers a thoughtful and timely investigation into the unconscious discourses – convenience chief among them – that perpetuate discrimination in the 21st century. D. Travers Scott asks us to challenge our reliance on discourses of convenience and examine the racism, ableism, misogyny, homophobia, and other forms of hate it so often masks. Ranging in subject matter from film to autoethnography to US presidential history, Scott reaches surprising conclusions, asking new and provocative questions about how convenience functions in our rancorous, divided culture.

Jennifer Natalya Fink, Professor of English and Core Faculty of Disability Studies, Georgetown University, USA

D. Travers Scott's Convenient Discrimination: Crips, Queers, and Other Misfits offers a highly original intervention into debates about crip and queer oppression and marginalization. Moving beyond the media fixation on spectacular violence and symbolic annihilation, Scott argues that the social exclusion of certain bodyminds – aging, neurodivergent, disabled, resistant to rehabilitation – is driven less by hatred than by inconvenience. Misfits are grit in the machinery of neoliberal capitalism by refusing legibility, taking too much time and effort, and thwarting business as usual. Through wide-ranging objects of analysis, from theories of insanity and the use of electrotherapy to vaccine skepticism, the book traces entanglements of refusal and desire, reimagining inconvenience as a mode of resistance.

Katherine Sender, Professor of Communication, Cornell University, USA