Category: Films
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Film Friday: IN The Eye Of The Beholder (The Diane De Vries Story)
diane De Vries was born without arms and legs. This fast-paced, hard-hitting and beautifully honest documentary takes us through Diane’s life, through the ways the fear of her devoutly religious grandmother and the physical neglect of her mother shaped her childhood, through the ways being physically different impacts her interactions with others as an adult…
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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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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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Film Friday: An Invitation to Jam
This week’s film gives us a fresh way to look at sex. A sexual “jam” is for everyone. It’s a way of looking at sex and sexuality that makes room for different bodies and minds, as well as different desires, needs, and preferences. Karen B.K. Chan proposes that we look at having sex as like…
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Film Friday: Disability and Sexuality Pride
Highlighting the many different voices of and experiences with sexualities, relationships, and disabilities – that’s our main goal here at Ready, Sexy, Able. So, every Friday we’ll post a video or podcast that explores a different aspect of the connections between sexualities and disabilities. We’ll keep it accessible, with links to alternate formats when available,…