2022’s Disability History Month theme was “Disability, Health and Well-Being”. I had initially written this blog back then to discuss the impact that accessibility (or lack there), views on disability and community can have on a disabled person’s well-being. Lack of accessibility has a massive impact on disabled people, especially our well-being. It can lead …
Disabled & Online Dating: Love it or Hate it
Jan 2022, the time of year that many people look back on the state of their love life with clouds of devastation. They start thinking about their childhood plans of being settled down. Being married and having the first out of the bunch of their kids before their 30s. I have no doubt that there …
Sex, Disability & All the Inbetweens
Desexualisation of Disabled People Sexuality and disability in the same sentence appear to be a rarity in mainstream conversations. The most common association of the two words are often negative. They relate to the context of disabled people not being sexual, fetishised, or disabled people’s risk to sexual abuse. Non-disabled people assume that we don’t …