Category: disability
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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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Book Review: CRIPTIQUES
I cannot talk about illness and how it affects me, without mentioning how it is tied to my immigration status, or my choices and access as a queer upper class woman. The axes of benefits and struggles at which I find myself leads to a particular set of options. From there, I make choices. There,…
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FilmFriday: Disability, Dating, Dancing and More
Today’s film is short, but long on great energy and ideas. Laci Green and her friend Olivia give us the lowdown on sex and disability, everything from dating, to dancing, to fetishizing. Two gems from Olivia: People who fetishize (are sexually aroused by and attracted to) disability aren’t wrong or bad. The problem with fetishizing…
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No Excuses For Abuses: This Support Worker Sexually Assaulted His Clients
Update Craig Handasyde Resources for Self-Advocates What Is Sexual Assault? Invisible victims: Sexual assault of people with an intellectual disability Sexual assault and adults with a disability: Enabling recognition, disclosure and a just response
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Film Friday: One Step Out Of Loneliness
Then my behaviour therapist called, I asked him how to get a girl friend, he said he’d draw up a plan with a step by step process. … Did you know that there are 176 steps that you need to climb in order to get out of loneliness. That’s a lot. Loneliness can feel like…
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Book Review: Hot, Wet, and Shaking by Kaleigh Trace
Honesty, self-awareness, a wicked sense of humour, an unflinching sense of the ridiculous. You generally need all of these to be able to talk as candidly about your sex life as Kaleigh Trace has done in Hot, Wet, and Shaking: How I Learned to Talk About Sex. These essays are about a lot more than…
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How do disabled people have sex, anyway?
Can we all agree that asking random people on the street (or in the mall, or anywhere, really) about their sex life is just plain creepy? People with disabilities are asked, much more often than you’d think, how, or if, we have sex. No, really, this happens all the time. If it’s not about sex…