By Katharine Quarmby — 2015
How misperceptions about disability can prevent people with physical and cognitive impairments from being able to express their sexuality.
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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.
Body neutrality, I think, has the power to be really useful in particular to people with disabilities, especially those with chronic pain or people with progressive diagnoses.
Although body positivity urges acceptance of all kinds of bodies, the movement still has room for improvement. Notably, people with disabilities, who through inaccessibility and lack of representation are often made to feel “other” by non-disabled folks.
“Body positivity is all about having a good relationship with your body.” Well that’s what everyone keeps telling me. The only problem is, if I told anyone about the way my body treats me, they would tell me it’s a relationship I need to get the hell out of.
Body positivity has begun to leave behind some of the people who spoke it into existence — among them is the disabled community.
Often, body positivity and fat activism exclude disabled people. It’s past time to change that.
To say that fatphobia is not connected to anti-Blackism is to not understand the deep-rooted history between the two.
The removal of women's body hair has been a social requirement for as long as I can remember. At age 14, I was begging my mum to let me get my eyebrows threaded and my upper lip waxed, and for her to finally introduce me to "the razor.
Learn about the difference between body positivity and body neutrality.
Body neutrality is the idea of accepting your body as it is. Because that's easier said than done, this is a discussion of tools that will help.