Upcoming Resource Spotlights
Resource Spotlights hosted by the Learning Network feature Ontario-based resources, trainings, and organizations that focus on gender-based violence.
Disabled Sexuality and Pleasure Access
Presented by: Rachele Manett
Date | Time: Thursday, May 30, 2024 | 1:00 to 2:30 pm Eastern Time (ET)
This Resource Spotlight features That Sex Show on AMI-tv which focuses on the intersections of disability, sex, and sexuality more broadly. We’ll discuss the importance of disability-focused and disability-inclusive sexuality education, connections between gender-based violence and disabled sexuality, and best practices for disability inclusion in relation to sexuality education.
This Resource Spotlight will have ASL interpretation and English closed-captioning.
Learning Objectives
In this session, participants will:
- Gain a preliminary understanding on disability justice politics and its relationship to sexuality and pleasure.
- Identify gaps in current sexuality education practices and their effects on disability communities.
- Consider ways to better incorporate a disability focus into current work around sexuality and violence prevention education.
Speaker
Rachele Manett (they/she) is a queer and disabled educator, certified therapeutic recreation specialist (CTRS), and the host of That Sex Show on AMI-tv. Their work focuses on sexuality, disability and access, and they are currently the education coordinator for Venus Envy; an education-based sex shop and bookstore with locations in Halifax, Nova Scotia and Ottawa, Ontario.
[Visual description of speaker image: A pale, white person with dark, curly hair is smiling brightly and looking off to the side of the camera. They are wearing a black t-shirt that says "the future is accessible" in white writing. The backdrop is a city street.]
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