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Category: Monthly Round-Up

  • Ready, Sexy, Able: February and March Round-up

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    News and views on sex and disability for February and March. Here at Ready, Sexy, Able Sexual Abuse, Sexual Rights, and Intellectual Disability: A Messy Political Stew Sexual abuse policies at institutions for people with disabilities don’t usually make it into the news, so when they do, that is news. Here, I unpacked what was…

  • Ready, Sexy, Able: January Round-Up

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    Sex and Disability Portugal’s Plural&Singular Publishes Report on Sex and Affection it’s impressive that disability sports magazines are conducting and reporting on sex and disability research. Better still, the Portugese study investigated the experiences of both people with intellectual disabilities and people with physical disabilities. Earlier this month, Portugal’s disability sport magazine Plural&Singular published a…

  • Ready, Sexy, Able Round-Up: November

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    Sex, Sexuality, and Disability New study investigating how to support people with disability to have sex Facilitated sex has been a hot button issue for a long time, with concerns ranging from ensuring disabled people’s privacy to supporting a safe (including sexually safe) workplace for attendants and assistants. Lead researcher, Dr Russell Shuttleworth, says the…

  • Ready, Sexy, Able October Round-Up

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    Sexuality, Relationships, and Disability A Love Letter to My Neurotypical Husband, From Your Autistic Wife People often say marriage (or any long-term romantic relationship) is about compromise. I think it’s about understanding, showing that understanding, growing with a partner. This woman and her husband don’t – can’t – just go through the motions of a…

  • September Ready, Sexy, Able Round-Up

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    September brought us news and views on the state of sex ed in the United states (not good), disabled women’s access to sexual health care (also not great), the complex mathematical calculations that go into whether and how to reveal a disability in an online dating profile, and more. Here on Ready Sexy, Able, we…

  • Ready, Sexy, Able: August News and Views Round-Up

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    August brought us a lot of personal narratives, powerful, funny, sad, and thoughtful. Topics include respectful personal care, dating, not-so-accessible sex toys, a moving day-in-the-life of a support worker for disabled folks who’ve experienced sexual violence, and so much more. Disability Rights A Bill of Rights as an Autonomous Disabled Person No One Wants to…

  • Ready, Sexy, Able July News Round-Up

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    Welcome to the Ready, Sexy, Able news round-up for July. This month we have news and opinions from all over the world, about everything from sexual health rights for disabled people to the changes that can happen in a relationship after disability. I have also included some sex education articles that aren’t disability-specific, as well…