Tag: Dave Hingsburger
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Weekend Reading: When shopping for sex toys is a radical act.
The Internet is giant! It’s a library that will never get full (at least, I hope it won’t) and has decades of material. Most of us can barely get through news (fake or not) and opinions posted each day, let alone find the gems of the past. This week’s post is from Dave Hingsburger, published…
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Your Sexual Choices Shouldn’t Belong to Anyone Except You
It happens when parents send their gay children to “conversion therapy” to “turn them straight.” It happens when doctors withhold sexual health information, or sterilize a patient without that patient’s informed consent. It happens when the medical establishment performs medically unnecessary surgeries on babies because their genitals and other sex characteristics don’t match what medical…
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Direct Support Meets LGBTQ+ Folks With Disabilities
A week ago I snuck into the National Alliance for Direct Support Professionals Webinar on supporting people with intellectual disability who are lesbian, gay, bi, trans, queer, or something else under the label of LGBTQ+. It felt like sneaking because I don’t work with folks with intellectual or developmental disability, directly or otherwise, but, actually,…
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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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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…