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Despite what magazines, billboards, television and film would have us believe, sexuality isn’t necessarily relegated to the “able-bodied.” People of all abilities are entitled to sexual wellness and happiness. All too often, people with disabilities are desexualized by doctors, care-givers, friends, family—and in many cases— themselves. CREGS believes that moving society closer to understanding the sexual realities of people with disabilities will result in greater freedom and expanded sexual literacy for all of us.

Primer Beso

El hecho de ser una persona discapacitada no le impidio a esta joven explorar su sexualidad..

The ABC’s of Sex After a Spinal Cord Injury

Hill Foundation president, Thea Flaum, discusses the resources that facingdisability.com has for people with spinal cord injuries.

Maneuvering Moral Panics: My experience at ASU’s Moral Panics of Sexuality Conference

Friday, October 7th, 2011: Moral Panics of Sexuality Conference at Arizona State University. This one day conference was packed full of presentations from various students, faculty, and independent researchers on a wide breadth of research dealing with emotional issues that challenge the predominant social order. The conference organization team was made up of various students and faculty from multiple

Sex and Disability....Do You Have A Story to Share?

Kristin Kelly, MS has worked as an educator, therapist, and expert on intimacy and sexuality issues for the past 10 years.  She is currently working on several self help books, writing articles to help educate others, and offers coaching and consultation through her website www.myintimacycoach.com.  Ms. Kelly is an alumna of the NSRC Summer Institute. 

Dreaming Sins, Cripping Sex: Talking to Sins Invalid

The 5th Anniversary Sins Invalid show happens this week - April 8-10 - at Z Space in San Francisco!

Anti-Homelessness and the Masking of Oppression

The city of San Francisco has once again taken upon itself to attempt to regulate its homeless population out of existence. Mayor Gavin Newsom has proposed two new laws against sitting and laying in public places, one for business corridors and another for residential areas.

Getting Emotionally Naked: Notes on an Activist Voice

I just submitted a paper to Atlantis with my good friend and colleague from SF State’s Sexuality Studies graduate program Sonny on coalitional politics and embodied scholar-activist efforts to further a theory we call bodiosexual justice.

Sex that Mind Forgot

A man with Alzheimer’s and his wife of many years finish lovemaking when he rolls over and tells her, “You’d better hurry up and get your things because my wife will be home soon."

El tabú de la sexualidad y la discapacidad...porque NO son personas ‘asexuadas’

La sexualidad en personas con discapacidades está siendo objeto de mucho interés en la actualidad.