Category: commentary
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Disabled People, harassment, and Public Spaces
(Originally published on another blog in 2014. My writing voice has changed a lot since then, but I still agree with everything I said here! I have a lot more to say on disability and harassment, and am reposting this older piece here to get the conversation started.) *** Every time I leave my house…
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“Corrective” Surgery On Intersex Children is Medical Violence
These loving, affirming parents are suing the doctors who performed medically unnecessary surgery on their son before they met and adopted him. Their son was, like about one in two thousand children, born intersex. His doctors decided the baby should be a girl, and surgically altered his genitals to match this gender assignment. “MC” is…
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Disability and Beauty Standards
Cara Liebowitz of That Crazy Crippled Chick has some powerful things to say about beauty standards, expectations, and what many disabled bodies really looke like. IN her latest blog post, On Being “Ugly Disabled”, Cara tackles the idea that some disabled bodies are seen as acceptable, even beautiful (physical disability as a fetish is a…
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Sexuality. Disability. Not so different after all.
Talking about sexuality and disability is a big deal. Until recently, most of what we saw in mainstream media were reports of disabled people being abused and assaulted, or syrupy-sweet feel-good stories about a person with a disability in a romantic relationship which (gasp!) included sex. Sex, and disability, as experiences, are assumed to be…