Category: Intellectual Disability
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Sexual Abuse, Sexual Rights, and Intellectual Disability: A Messy Political Stew
It’s not every day that policy changes around sexual abuse reporting at an agency for people with developmental and intellectual disabilities are covered in that agency’s local newspaper. What’s not unusual is the amount of stuff there is to unpack around how disabled people’s bodies, sexualities, even our very lives are treated. You can double…
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What does coming out as LGBQ or trans mean for disabled people?
It’s National Coming Out Day, and I’m thinking about people with disabilities who are queer, gender nonconforming, or both. Queer and trans* people around the United States and Canada will celebrate this weekend. Some will come out for the first time ever. Some have been out for years. Some will never be or feel safe…
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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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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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Sexualities and People With Intellectual Disabilities
This was originally written and published in late August, 2014 after I attended Jessica Naslund’s workshop, Healthy Relationships and Sexuality: A Systemic Approach to Supporting People with Cognitive Disabilities, at The Woodhull Sexual Freedom Summit. Workshop description: As practitioners and educators we are guiding individuals through their unique sexual journeys. People with cognitive disabilities have…