Disabled: Dating And Sex In The Body You Have
Anita hears from people with physical disabilities in the trenches of online dating.
Embodied · Anita Rao, Grant Holub-Moorman, Kaia Findlay, Charlie Shelton-Ormond, Jenni Lawson
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Show Notes
Anita surprised herself with judgements she made about others with only a photo to go on during her years of online dating. Such bias and misconceptions are something folks with physical disabilities contend with every day on the apps...and IRL.
Meet the guests:
- Julie-Ann Scott-Pollock, a performer and communication studies scholar, talks about living with spastic diplegic cerebral palsy and what non-disabled people can learn about consent and communication from the disabilities community.
- D'Arcee Charington, a disabilities advocate and English doctoral student, shares stories about online dating as a wheelchair user and talks about how ableism shows up in romantic relationships.
- Ariella Barker, an attorney and communications specialist, talks about how her approach to online dating has evolved and the intersection of gender discrimination and disability discrimination.
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