Disability & Sexuality Lab

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What an incredible gathering at our last conference! 🌟 A huge thank you to everyone who attended and made this event possible.

Proof that our conference is reaching a wide audience (even Logo the turtle is here!)

That's a wrap on Day One of the conference! We are so grateful for all of the enthusiasm and care that everyone brought to today's sessions. We look forward to seeing you tomorrow for more incredible presentations, followed by a keynote from Andrew Gurza. #PowerToDisrupt

✨ Sexuality, Disability, and the Power to Disrupt Conference Spotlight ✨ Aniket Ojha is a UGC-Senior Research Fellow at Banaras Hindu University. He will be presenting "Blindness and the Sexuality Duality: Disability, Desire, and Morality in 20th-Century Hindiphone Fiction".

✨ Sexuality, Disability, and the Power to Disrupt Conference Spotlight ✨ Hailey Johnston is an Adjunct Research Fellow at Western Sydney University. They will be presenting "Across the Margins - Body Mapping LGBTQA+ Experiences of Sexual Health and Disability".

✨ Sexuality, Disability, and the Power to Disrupt Conference Spotlight ✨ Carmen Yau is a Lecturer in Social Work at Goldsmiths, University of London. She will be presenting "Crip Slut Erotica: Kink, Fetish, and Storytelling as Disrupting Power of Body Politics".

✨ Sexuality, Disability, and the Power to Disrupt Conference Spotlight ✨ Rebecca Engle, M.Ed., is an autistic educator, author, and inclusion specialist who will be presenting "Stimming, Rest and Resistance". 🗓 February 13 - 14 🕗 9:00AM - 4:30PM (MST)

What are you looking forward to at the 2026 Sexuality, Disability, and the Power to Disrupt Conference? Share your thoughts in the comments or and tag us in your posts! 💬✨ #PowerToDisrupt #DisabilityAndSexuality #UCalgary #ComingSoon #Conference

✨ Sexuality, Disability, and the Power to Disrupt Conference Spotlight ✨ Meggie Boyle is a 2nd year French PhD student at the University of Cambridge. She will be presenting "Tender Disruptions: Disabled Desire and the Radical Power of Intimacy Across Literature and Screen"

✨ Sexuality, Disability, and the Power to Disrupt Conference Spotlight ✨ Angela Molloy (she/her) is a congenitally disabled scholar-activist and second year PhD student currently. She will be presenting "Ego Eimi, Who I Am: Disrupting Normativity in the Queering of John 9".

✨ Sexuality, Disability, and the Power to Disrupt Conference Spotlight ✨ Carolina Tannenbaum-Baruchi is a nurse researcher and academic specializing in disability and health promotion. She will be presenting on "Ethics, Accessibility, and Deaf Culture in Sexuality Research."

✨ Sexuality, Disability, and the Power to Disrupt Conference Spotlight ✨ Katlyn Melcher (they/them) is a Master of Arts student at Wilfrid Laurier University. They will be presenting "Can Love Survive Biopolitics? Exploring Queer Futurity in Black Mirror’s San Junipero".

✨ Sexuality, Disability, and the Power to Disrupt Conference Spotlight ✨ Johanna Knebel will be presenting "They speak about our life, but they don´t live it” – Challenging hegemonic knowledge hierarchies in sexuality education for people with learning disabilities."

✨ Sexuality, Disability, and the Power to Disrupt Conference Spotlight ✨ Elizabeth Straus, Kate Ellis, and Blossom Cheng will be presenting "Reimagining Autistic Sexualities: Stories of Joy and Disruption". 🗓 February 13 - 14 🕗 9:00AM - 4:30PM (MST)

✨ Sexuality, Disability, and the Power to Disrupt Conference Spotlight ✨ Harley Stringham (xe/they) is a crip, queer, and kinky senior at Fairhaven College in Bellingham, Washington. Harley will be presenting "Masochism as Reclamation and Control of Chronic Pain ."

✨ Sexuality, Disability, and the Power to Disrupt Conference Spotlight ✨ Artemis C Guay will be presenting "Sexual Services for People with Disabilities: Supporting Legislative Reform for the Decriminalisation of Sex Work in Canada."

We are thrilled to announce Dr. Loree Erickson as a keynote speaker for the 2026 Sexuality, Disability, and the Power to Disrupt Conference! Dr. Loree Erickson will be speaking on "Glass Walls and Glitter Baths: Queercrip Porn, Flaunting, and Disruptive Joy". ✨

⌛ We are just ONE WEEK away from the 2026 Sexuality, Disability, and the Power to Disrupt Conference! Follow the link to register and engage with a global community of activists, community members, and more. Everyone is welcome! events.zoom.us/ev/Aj-hmQcmnLa…

✨ Sexuality, Disability, and the Power to Disrupt Conference Spotlight ✨ Megan Babiski and Serena D’Angelo are both students in the Master of Arts in Applied Disability Studies. They will be presenting "Construction of Neurodivergent Daters on Hiki’s Website."

✨ Sexuality, Disability, and the Power to Disrupt Conference Spotlight ✨ Chenxi Yang is a PhD candidate at The University of Hong Kong, presenting "Lived experiences of transgender and gender diverse people living with neurodivergence and disability in Hong Kong and Taiwan."