Reinventing Disability and Sexuality
Table of Contents
- Reinventing Disability and Sexuality
- Presenters
- Sugarloaf Mountain
- Scholarly support for this presentation
- Scholarly support for this presentation, Con't
- Today's discussion points
- Categories of literature on disability and sexuality
- Functional
- Discrimination
- Discrimination, con't
- Sexual Access
- Sexual access, con't
- Major dilemmas in current literature
- Major dilemmas, 2
- Major dilemmas, 3
- Verifiable claims
- Verifiable claims, con't
- Claims that are not verifiable
- Claims that are not verifiable, 2
- Claims that are not verifiable, 3
- Claims that are not verifiable, 4
- Result of Vague Thinking
- Result of essentialist thinking
- Results of essentialist thinking, con't
- Myth guides desired
affirmative and long-term responses - Removes discussion, analysis and promotion of "disability sexuality" from the diversity of sexuality relevant to all people
- Removes discussion, con't
- Removes discussion, analysis and promotion of "disability sexuality" from the diversity of sexuality theory and research relevant to all people
- Definitions
- Sexuality
- Disability
- Explanatory Legitimacy
- Description
- Typical-Atypical
- Explanation
- Legitimacy
- Disability as diversity
- Why does disability belong within a progressive diversity dialog?
- Why does disability belong within a progressive diversity dialog?, con't
- Diversity history in brief:
Looking backward - Contribution of nomothetic inquiry 1
- Contribution of nomothetic inquiry 2
- The normal curve:
"Normal Man" - Pluralism emerges
- Multiculturalism...
- Three approaches to multiculturalism
- Expansive view...
- Looking forward, not backward
- Looking forward, not backward - 2
- Conceptualizing difference...
- Reframe thinking
- "Reality" of binaries
- Current responses—
Make atypical people typical - Current responses—
Make atypical people typical - 2 - Our vision for the future-Flatten the Curve
- Flattening the curve...
- Inclusion
- Expansive Universal Ideology (DePoy & Gilson, 2006)
- Our vision in action today
- 2004 Ad for Colours Wheelchair
Woman in designer wheelchair - Performing artists - ndaf.org
- Becoming Her
- Becoming Her - 2
- Becoming Her - 3
- Becoming Her, Mark O'Brien
- Portrait, Mark O'Brien
- Mark O'Brien
- Contact information
- Thank You
Stephen Gilson (stephen_gilson@umit.maine.edu)
Elizabeth DePoy (edepoy@maine.edu)
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Diversity history in brief:
Looking backward
- Historically, discrimination and oppression have been conceptualized as population specific marginalization with a particular focus on race, class, ethnicity, and gender, and more recently, sexual orientation, disability, and age.