Category: Physical Disability
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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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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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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…
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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,…
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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…