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Three Lessons from Disabled Mothers

By Sonja Sharp — 2021

If there’s one thing I wish nondisabled parents could learn from parents like me, it’s that their anxiety would be better spent elsewhere.

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9 Things to Keep in Mind When Dating a Person with a Disability

Tip #7: Be patient with us.

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Hannah Shewan Stevens
2021
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Please Don’t Call Me “Wheelchair-Bound.”

What I’m hoping to do here is help portray the incapacitated form in an optimistic light and defy the labels enforced upon us by society.

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Sandy Pennington
2017
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Dating With a Disability

Women with disabilities often begin to date much later in life, and they struggle in a dating culture that places a premium on physical appearance.

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Wendy Lu
2016
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Wheelchair Rapunzel: ‘Growing up, I never knew I was allowed celebrate my disabled body’

Alex Dacy is a strong voice on Instagram for disabled body compassion and equality.

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Geraldine Walsh
2020
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Disabled and Fighting for a Sex Life

How misperceptions about disability can prevent people with physical and cognitive impairments from being able to express their sexuality.

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Katharine Quarmby
2015
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‘I Want a World Where Disabled People Are Valid Sexual Partners’

New film The Sessions has put disability and sex in the spotlight. But is the focus on prostitution helpful?

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Frances Ryan
2013
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Disabled LGBTQ Activists Are Redefining Sex and Sexuality

Three LGBTQ people are leading a revolution in how we think about disability and sexual freedom.

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Jacob Anderson-Minshall
2020
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12 Things to Say to Your Daughter to Encourage Healthy Sexuality

The American Academy of Pediatrics recommends starting to teach children about sexuality as early as 18 months, which allows them to learn about themselves slowly and over time, just as they learn about absolutely everything else.

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Erin Feher
2019
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Being a Single Mother Made Me Embrace the Sex Drive I Thought Was Dead

Newly single moms can be horny as hell. I can testify.

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Sarah Bregel
2018
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Motherhood and Sexuality by Bette Gordon & Catherine Texier

Perhaps it is time to open the door on the secret, sexual lives of mothers, even if it is hard for children—and we, as readers, have all been children—to contemplate this taboo: our own mother’s sexuality.

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Bette Gordon, Catherine Texier
2000
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