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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Inclusion
- Inclusion, although used to denote multiple meanings in varied domains, in the model that we propose, means the relocation of diversity beyond category membership to the larger domain of varied beliefs, ideas, and experiences that are part of human sexuality.