Disability Sexual Culture

Question 1

disability

Answer 1

heterogeneous and dynamic umbrella category for bodies and minds that defy shifting cultural norms of health, function, behavior, and appearance

Question 2

medical model of disability

Answer 2

dominant perspective on disability

Frames disability as a problem in need of correction

Disabled people positioned as patients first

Disability as a private matter rather than social

Question 3

compulsory able-bodiedness

Answer 3

expectation that all people must chase after and achieve able-bodiedness

Question 4

social model of disability

Answer 4

social constructionist approach that reframes disability as the product of the interaction between bodyminds and environmental factors

Looks outward to identify structural and ideological barriers as the problem in most need of correction

Question 5

ableism

Answer 5

system of oppression against disabled people- hypervaluation of ableness codified into law and social practices

Question 6

Hysteria

Answer 6

considered a psychological and physiological disorder in AFAB, remained in DSM until 1980

Thought to be caused by trapped menstrual blood to “roaming uteri”

Symptoms included depression, insomnia, irritability, anything deemed unmanageable about women in the Victorian era

Question 7

How does disability challenge dominant sexual scripts and discourses?

Answer 7

Opens opportunities for different modes of communication

Breaks down binary active vs. Passive expression

Using consent as an enhancer

Remaps erogenous zones of body