Breaking Silences: Sex & Disability Conference
Wednesday, November 4, 8 am to Friday, November 6, 2015, 1 pm
Campus:
Dayton
Student Union, various rooms
Audience:
Future Students
Current Students
Faculty
Staff
Alumni
The public
Event Webpage:
This conference represents a proud claiming of disability identity as a natural and normal human experience that enhances, rather than diminishes, one’s sexuality.
Registration opens August 1! Now accepting conference proposals through July 15.
Audience
- members of the disability, Deaf, LGBTQ and gender nonconforming communities
- disability rights activists and allies
- disability scholars, writers, poets, and artists
- members of the professional community who serve the disability and/or Deaf communities (e.g. medicine, mental health professionals, education)
Topics
Sexual health, reproductive rights, images of beauty, LGBTQ, gender non-conforming, sexual assault, inter-ability relationships and more...
Goals
To celebrate disability identity and sexuality through the lens of Crip culture.
Learning Objectives
- Increase cultural competency related to disability and multiculturalism
- Explore the impact of ableism on sexuality and disability identity
- Consider sexual freedoms and expression as human rights for all people
- Identify what can be done to promote equity and disability justice around sexual freedoms
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