Tag Archives: disability and sex
A Response to Guyland
TweetA Student Response to Guyland A woman, a white woman, at a feminist book discussion, once opined that all women, of all walks of life, have a common experience of female oppression. As the room nodded in agreement, one woman, a black woman, stood up, and said, ‘Well, no. What do you see when you [...]
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Sterilization of developmentally disabled women
TweetThis is in response to “How the war on reproductive freedom hurts women with disabilities.” I understand the dangers in assuming that developmentally disabled women cannot make their own reproductive choices, but my experience–or at least, the experience of my mother–makes me feel differently than the author of that post. It can be hard to [...]
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“Phantom Orgasms”: Cripping the “Evolutionary Mystery” of Female Sexuality
TweetCripping: like the analytic of “queering,” cripping centralizes disability in analyses that otherwise often remained “normed.” Importantly, through its critical deconstruction and analytical awesomeness, cripping also tries to make new meaning, or rather, help us understand meanings in other ways that do justice to marginalized experiences. How do we understand female orgasm? It is easy [...]
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Access to Parenthood: Canadian Couple May Lose Their Son Because They are Disabled