Disability, sexuality, gender and violence: Chat with @saysnidhigoyal

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

the sad part is that the myths are so strong and everywhere that pwd internalise it #prajnya16d16 #sexdis

— Nidhi Goyal (@saysnidhigoyal) December 3, 2016

Read the full chat, storified here.

#SexTalk: Tweetchat with Bishakha Datta

On Day 7 of the 2016 Campaign, we went on Twitter for a chat with Bishakha Datta, the founder of PoV Mumbai, on gender, sexuality, technology and violence.

.@busydot So straight in - First question is, where do gender, sexuality, technology and violence intersect? #sextalk #Prajnya16d16

— Prajnya Initiatives (@prajnya) December 1, 2016

Here goes @prajnya! Since we live our lives on and offline now, we use tech to explore our sexuality, express it, have sex, surf porn etc >

— Bishakha Datta (@busydot) December 1, 2016

and that's how we want to keep it @prajnya but online violence is a big threat to doing so. Stalking. Verbal abuse. Morphing images >

— Bishakha Datta (@busydot) December 1, 2016

We discussed why working class men watching porn disturbs people so much.

Just shifting the subject a little, .@busydot much of the #MoralPanic around porn is also a class issue. (1/2) #sextalk #Prajnya16d16

— Prajnya Initiatives (@prajnya) December 1, 2016

Rich/middle class have problems with porn consumption of working class men, "who go out and rape our women." Your thoughts? (2/2) #sextalk

— Prajnya Initiatives (@prajnya) December 1, 2016

Uff @prajnya. Partly b/c sex between different classes a taboo in the wealthy mind and porn breaks down class barriers >

— Bishakha Datta (@busydot) December 1, 2016

Interesting that fantasies of sex b/w different classes permissible but not reality @prajnya. >

— Bishakha Datta (@busydot) December 1, 2016

We talked about sex, porn, consent, technology, surveillance, and the whole chat has been storified here.