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'You have the right to love and be loved': participatory theatre for disability justice with self-advocates
- Source :
- Qualitative Research. 23:467-485
- Publication Year :
- 2021
- Publisher :
- SAGE Publications, 2021.
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Abstract
- Individuals with intellectual disability are often left out of and overlooked in discussions on sexual health and sexuality. Given this, we undertook a participatory theatre research project to better respond to the needs of the individuals with intellectual and developmental disability regarding their sexual agency and sexual citizenship. The project, entitled Romance, Relationships, and Rights arose when the executive director of a community living agency approached researchers at the University of British Columbia’s Canadian Institute for Inclusion and Citizenship to learn about how they, as an agency, could better support their community. To disrupt sexual ableism and traditional theatre hierarchies, we collaboratively turned to participatory and disability theatre with the aim to advance and promote the sexual citizenship of individuals with intellectual and developmental disability, who refer to themselves as self-advocates - those who speak and act with agency. The challenges of equitable co-creation arose throughout the theatre process; the themes of deconstruction/co-construction and uncertainty and liminality reveal the iterative process of centering self-advocate voices.
- Subjects :
- 030506 rehabilitation
business.industry
05 social sciences
050401 social sciences methods
Human sexuality
Gender studies
Citizen journalism
medicine.disease
Disability studies
03 medical and health sciences
0504 sociology
History and Philosophy of Science
Intellectual disability
medicine
Sociology
Justice (ethics)
0305 other medical science
business
Social Sciences (miscellaneous)
Reproductive health
Subjects
Details
- ISSN :
- 17413109 and 14687941
- Volume :
- 23
- Database :
- OpenAIRE
- Journal :
- Qualitative Research
- Accession number :
- edsair.doi...........b9bd394e05feae4022ec4db189e053db