On December 3, World Disability Day, we spoke to disability and gender rights activist Nidhi Goyal (@saysnidhigoyal) about sexuality, disability and violence. Some snippets:
disability sexuality and violence intersect in the in everyone's life who is disabled. befcaue is a cross cutting thing #prajnya16d16— Nidhi Goyal (@saysnidhigoyal) December 3, 2016
disabled people PWD are considered asexual and / or hypersexual and that is completely a socially constructed idea of them #prajnya16b16— Nidhi Goyal (@saysnidhigoyal) December 3, 2016
so in our country where girls r nt allowed to share rooms with male relatives disabled girls are made to #prajnya16b16— Nidhi Goyal (@saysnidhigoyal) December 3, 2016
the funniest questions get asked to us bcz of the myths- a friend gets asked everytime on dating apps-"how do u do it?" #prajnya16d16— Nidhi Goyal (@saysnidhigoyal) December 3, 2016
Read the full chat, storified here.the sad part is that the myths are so strong and everywhere that pwd internalise it #prajnya16d16 #sexdis— Nidhi Goyal (@saysnidhigoyal) December 3, 2016
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