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Already Doing It: Intellectual Disability and Sexual Agency

Michael Gill

Print publication date: 2015

Print ISBN-13: 9780816682973

Published to Minnesota Scholarship Online: January 2016

DOI: 10.5749/minnesota/9780816682973.001.0001

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Smashing Disability

Smashing Disability

Sexual Transgression and the Lady Boys of Bangkok

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(p.173) 7 Smashing Disability
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Already Doing It
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Michael Gill

Publisher:
University of Minnesota Press
DOI:10.5749/minnesota/9780816682973.003.0008

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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