Articles
Relationships and Sex with Disability and Chronic Illness
- Sex and Chronic Pain: How Pleasure Can Be Your Secret Painkiller (Fierce)
- The Best Starter Sex Toys for People With Disabilities, According to Experts (Well + Good)
- Love: a Powerful Solution to Chronic Pain (US News)
- Chronic love: Dating, sex and living with illness (Healthing)
- Righting misrepresentation: Folx with disabilities can be romantic, sexual partners (The Daily Cardinal)
- How To Have An Awesome Sex Life When You’re Ill Or Disabled (Folks - A Pillpack Magazine)
- Having a Chronic Illness Doesn't Mean Giving Up Sex (Broadly)
- Marriage Institutions Aren’t Just Sexist — They’re Ableist And Disrespectful To People With Disabilities (Everyday Feminism)
- Why Sex Education for Disabled People Is So Important (Teen Vogue)
- Disability shouldn’t limit your sex life – here are some of the sex toy industry’s most innovative solutions (Metro UK)
- Smart sex toys are transforming the lives of people with disabilities (Sex Tech Guide)
- Love and Mental Illness [print]/My Spouse Struggles with Mental Illness [online] (Women's Health Magazine)
- Meet the Stigma-Busting Disabled Sex Bloggers (Hot Octopuss)
- Guelph Sexuality Conference explores sex ed through the theme of pain (The Ontarion)
- We Asked Women with RA to Review the Vibrator from Netflix’s ‘Grace and Frankie’ — This Is What They Said (Healthline)
- Arthritis Doesn’t Mean Saying Goodbye To Sex – Here’s Why (HelloFlo)
- These 14 hashtags are helping people with disabilities share their stories (Mashable)
- Chronic Sex - Improving Quality of Life by Improving How We Talk About It (Medicine X talk)
- #ChronicSex: Creating a Safe Place to Talk about Sex and Chronic Illness (Health Central)
- Why BDSM could allow anyone disabled to enjoy sex (Disability Horizons)
- The Incredible Pain-Killing Powers of Orgasm (Health Central)
Health & Medical
- Why trans people need to be included in the abortion fight (Mashable)
- Abuse, discrimination, exclusion: Transgender men explain domino effect of losing reproductive care post-Roe (The 19th)
- Birth control, gay and interracial marriage, and more may be at risk if Roe v. Wade falls (Prism Reports)
- Grocery Worries: Shoppers express frustration with Kroger reorganization, lack of mask enforcement (The Athens Post)
- The Last Straw: Eco-Ableism and The Need to Include the Disabled in Conversations about Environmentalism (Serendip Studio)
- How 'Spoon Theory' Can Help You Monitor and Manage Your Mental Wellbeing During Turbulent Times (The Root)
- The latest hashtag trend is a harsh look at how mental health is perceived (Revelist)
- Can you trademark an identity? The Invisible Disabilities Association thinks so (Daily Dot)
- Info & Resources for #StrawBan #SuckItAbleism Advocates (Rambling Justice)
- Ken Jennings Blasted for Tweet He Chose Not to Delete (Newser)
- Uber’s Drivers and Riders Are Locked in a Pine-Scented Battle (The Atlantic)
- 29 Women On What They Wish People Understood About Their Chronic Illnesses (Bustle)
- Has Your Doctor Told You About Skipping Your Period for Good? (Rewire News)
- 8 Things You Should Never Say To Someone With A Chronic Health Condition (Bustle)
- La Niebla Cerebral (El Mercurio)
- The 10 Best Arthritis Blogs to Keep You (and Your Body) Moving (Everyday Health)
- Chronic Illness Bloggers to Follow (Kate the Almost Great)
- #WhatTheHealthCare Moments and your #WTFix for healthcare (WEGO Health)
- Then & Now: Grown Up Thoughts on Juvenile Arthritis (Health Stories Project)
- Living and Thriving With More Than One Chronic Illness (Health Central)
- Starbucks is releasing a black Phantom Frappuccino for Halloween and it's vegan (PopBuzz)
Sexuality & Gender
- Why LGBTQ+ Representation Matters to Me: Celebrating Diversity and Inclusion in Health Care (Global Healthy Living Foundation)
- How to make Pap tests more comfortable for queer and trans patients (Xtra Magazine)
- Nothing for Us Without Us: Building Inclusive Clinical Trials for the LGBTQ Community (Clara Health)
- Best Sex Positions for People with Vulvas (Blood & Milk)
- Painful Sex Isn't Normal—Let's Put This Damaging Myth to Bed (Self)
- How to Have the Gentle Sex Your Doctor Ordered (Broadly)
- What Finally Made Women Orgasm (Ask Men)
- By and for Us: How Marginalized Communities Are Redesigning Sex Ed Online (Cameron Glover)
- JoEllen’s 2017 Favorite Things (Redhead Bedhead)
- And when it all goes to hell… (Dangerous Lilly)
- Tantus, Woodhull, and the Larger Sex Blogger Community (Ace in the Hole)
- A lot of people think jokes about Trump and golden showers are 'kink-shaming' and offensive (joe.co.uk)
Interviews & Solo Features
- Voyage Ohio
- Be Inspired
- Voices: Are You Grateful for Your Arthritis? (Arthritis Today)
- Kirsten Schultz: A Path to Independence (Kids Get Arthritis Too)
- Kirsten Battles Fibromyalgia, SJIA, and More (Healthivibe)
- They're Back in the Game (Health Central)
- A Tumultuous Path (Invisible Project)
Interviews + Podcasts
Podcasts
- QueerCME Vodcast
- April 2023 Conversations About Health Equity
- The Great Health Debates: Ep 1: Disability Culture and Visibility by The Boston Congress of Public Health Inc.
- Dragon Talk: #342
- In Sickness & In Health Podcast (2 episodes)
- Paniac Episode 12
- All We Cannot Say Episode 13
- Love Bites Radio
- Life Effects podcast from Slate and Teva
- Healthcare is Hilarious (appearances 1, 2, and 3)
- Fat Chicks on Top Episode 14
Radio
- Sex City Radio
- W Radio in Colombia (head to 16:45)
Videos
- QueerCME Vodcast
- April 2023 Conversations About Health Equity
- The Great Health Debates: Ep 1: Disability Culture and Visibility by The Boston Congress of Public Health Inc.
- #WTFix Virtual Patient Panel 2020
- Masturbation, Chronic Illness & Queerness with Eva of What's My Body Doing
- Sex Talk With Kelly on Rogers TV
- WIP 2016: 'Getting Away in the Bedroom' Panel with Dr. Kilgore, Schultz & Dobson
Citations
Books
- Young, Disabled and LGBT+ Voices, Identities and Intersections edited by Alex Toft & Anita Franklin
- Becoming Disabled: Forging a Disability View of the World by Jan Doolittle Wilson
- Aftermath: Life in Post-Roe America, edited by Elizabeth G. Hines
Academia & Research
- "Real People. Real Stories.”: Self-Advocacy and Collective/Connective Action on the Digital Platform, The Mighty by Sarah M. Parsloe, PhD
- Sharma AE, Mann Z, Cherian R, Del Rosario JB, Yang J, Sarkar U. Recommendations From the Twitter Hashtag #DoctorsAreDickheads: Qualitative Analysis [published correction appears in J Med Internet Res. 2020 Nov 9;22(11):e25511]. J Med Internet Res. 2020;22(10):e17595. Published 2020 Oct 28. doi:10.2196/17595
- EDEC 575: Critical Disability Studies for Education Syllabus by Prof. Elizabeth Patitsas
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