In this newsletter I have collected ideas in literature and art that helped me to understand its effects on me over the years before I had a name for it. I’m also including anecdotes and illustrations from people who suffer from it, and a visual soundscape I made to describe how it feels.
Curriculum Resource for German and Anti Racism
In advance of Disability History Month 2021, whose double focus is on invisible disabilities, and sex and relationships, I’d like to invite some representatives from the Beschwerdechor Heidelberg’s recent successful accessible Festival Fringe kid’s film You can…
UKDHM 2021 Launch Event
Powerpoint presentation and videos from the launch of UKDHM 2021
Michael MacEwen interviews young disabled people about relationships and sex
Interviews conducted for UKDHM 2021
Mik Scarlet on sex and relationships
Mik Scarlet
Disabled Activist, Journalist, Musician, Actor, TV Presenter
Interview conducted for UKDHM 2021
Disabled Activist, Journalist, Musician, Actor, TV Presenter
Interview conducted for UKDHM 2021
Research on sex and relationships for disabled people
So little was known about disabled people and sex and relationships a number of research projects were carried out in the 90’s and 00’s to build up a picture. Surprise surprise, Disabled People in the main had Sex lives as good or as bad as most people.
Here we reproduce a series of texts on the subject.
Historian Simon Jarrett talks about his research on disabled people’s history
Interview conducted for UKDHM 2021
Historian Dr Rosemund Oates on life for disabled people in the early modern period
Interview conducted for UKDHM 2021
Penny Pepper on sex and relationships
Penny Pepper
Disability Activist, Writer, Poet, Speaker, Musician
Interview conducted for UKDHM 2021
Disability Activist, Writer, Poet, Speaker, Musician
Interview conducted for UKDHM 2021
Hidden impairment interviews for UKDHM 2021
Interviews with Katy Farrell on epilepsy, Yasmin Omar on being a teacher with MS, visually impaired barrister Christina Warner and Emma Charters on dyslexia.