Smashing Disability
Smashing Disability
Sexual Transgression and the Lady Boys of Bangkok
This chapter discusses an episode of the Internet reality television series The Specials, where a young-adult man with an intellectual disability expresses sexual desire for a group of Thai kathoey performers, The Lady Boys of Bangkok. I argue that intellectually disabled sexuality challenges sexually ableist, heteronormative understandings of sexuality.
Keywords: Disability, Sexuality, Intellectual Disability, Disability Studies, Sexual Ableism, Feminist Disability Studies, Reproductive Justice
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