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What do you do when you can’t do it?
Welcome back to Caring About Sex and Disability, dear reader! Well, hello dear reader. I have a bit of a story for you this blog, in order to set the scene. A few weeks ago, I had a session with my favourite sex worker. We were in the throes of our session; me in bed,…
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Marriage equality – part two
Welcome back to Caring About Sex and Disability, dear reader! Welcome back, dear Reader! Last time we explored how the Disability Support Pension is inextricably tied to marriage rights in Australia. We learned that even if your paramour got down on bended knee at Taylor Swift’s Aussie Eras tour to ask you to take the…
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Marriage equality – part one
Welcome back to Caring About Sex and Disability, dear reader! I want you to imagine something for a minute. Imagine that one of your clients has met their soulmate–that one true person that they want to spend the rest of their life with. Now imagine that they have been proposed to in one of the…
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Consent and Disability is A LOT more nuanced than you might think: How do we foster a culture of consent in a care setting, and outside of it too?
Welcome back to Caring About Sex and Disability. Over the past couple of years, discussions of consent have become a touchstone of the world around us. Pop onto any social justice followers Instagram or Twitter and it won’t take you long to see some version of “consent is sexy” on someone’s post. Funnily enough though,…
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Good care is hard to find… Literally. How do you find, hire and keep good personal support workers, and what to do if it doesn’t work out
Welcome back to Caring About Sex and Disability. We talk about care in the disability space a lot, but one of the areas that we rarely talk about in the space is how we, as disabled folks, find, hire and keep good care staff. What should you consider when recruiting? What boundaries are good…
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When is disability disclosure “too much” on a date, and how can we disclose about our disabilities with confidence?
Welcome back to Caring About Sex and Disability. One of the hardest parts of dating while disabled is the act of disclosing our disabilities (and all that they may entail) to a prospective partner. I can tell you from experience how absolutely nerve-wracking it is to know that a partner is okay with you being…