disabled sexuality

Disabled sexuality is more than what’s on our screens

by Alex Masse, Staff Writer It’s an understatement to say that disabled people and sex have a long, complicated history. In the past, we were victims of eugenics and sterilized against our will. In the present, we’re subjects of ridicule, pity, infantilization, and desexualization, particularly in media. I grimace every time I think about Sia’s new film Music and the “purity” she claims to see in disabled people, and cringe at the idea of yet another film where we’re infantilized by people who don’t care.  While there’s no single way to be disabled, and not all of us are interested…

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