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Sndrake et al - this is showing this Friday night (here) and sounds very interesting.
quote: Produced by Sex TV, a Candian company, Willing and Able: Love, Sex and Disability features a dozen or so articulate, intelligent people with physical disabilities from the US, Canada and Australia, all of whom have some angry and occasionally confronting words for the rest of us, berating us for burdening them with crushing stereotypes and ignoring their humanity because we can't get past their socially defined ugliness. The result is that sex and disability is a taboo topic. American Anne Finger, disabled from birth, puts it succintly: "I was like this Barbie doll with nothing down there."
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quote: Melburinan Katie Ball... married, had children and ran a website on which she proudly displayed sexually explicit photographs of herself: "porn with a political edge", she calls it. But she still has to plough through the stereotypes, such as being asked how she had children ("Well, d'oh, I had sex") and her husband is treated as a saint for shouldering such a burden ("Where does that leave me?" asks Ball).
Have any of you heard anything about it? I'm not sure when it was made.
I'll definately be watching.
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I forgot to mention that I know Anne Finger. She's the current president of the Society for Disability Studies. I wonder who else in the film I might know.
Is there a link for those excerpts you posted?
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Though I do find "Sex and disabilities for Dummies" slightly incongrous. (And the advice slightly inane.)
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Following the Canadian link, it looks like it has already screened in Canada - on Citytv, in February.
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