Category: disability
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Disability, Desirability, and Resistance
Last month I attended the 37th Annual Guelph Sexuality Conference. The lineup was amazing, and I learned so much – about consent, about community-based research with youth who have HIV, about how to use gender-neutral language to talk about sexuality and relationships – and about sexuality and disability. Kaleigh Trace presented Desirability as Resistance: Reading…
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Sexual Expression Is a Meaningful Activity, Too
I wrote the following post in March 2014, after attending Mara Levy‘s talk, Problem-Solving Sex with Disability at the Catalyst Conference. Mara Levy is an Occupational Therapist (OT) in Washington DC. Occupational therapists help people who’ve experienced injury or illness to return to activities that are meaningful to them—activities like walking, driving, working, crafting, and…
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Love doesn’t always win for people with disabilities.
June 26 was a history-changing day. Marriage laws in the U.S. finally caught up with reality – many people’s reality, anyway. This ruling opens up a whole new world of fredoms. It solves some of the problems that transgender people wishing to marry have faced up until now and gives same-gender couples the option to…
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Ready, Sexy, Able June Round-up
Welcome to the Ready, Sexy, Able news round-up. June brings us news of a disability-inclusive orgy in Toronto, a sex and relationships magazine for people with intellectual disabilities in France, a “Sexpo” for disabled people in Australia, an advice column for young people experiencing anxiety, and so much more. Enjoy. If you know of a…
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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…