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By Naomi Jacobs, The Telegraph.co.uk
The Telegraph picked a particularly shrewd moment to pry into disabled people’s care plans.
We are currently are the disproportionate target of a cost-cutting campaign that has started with the poorest and most disadvantaged people in society. Continue reading
By Helen Croydon, TimesOnline
Dominic Webb, 45, fell from a multi-storey building 15 years ago, leaving him tetraplegic. He has no feeling or movement below his shoulders.
A year ago he was introduced to Sue Newsome, a tantric sex worker. Continue reading
Sins Invalid photo: David Steinberg
We are sexual creatures.
The show and photographs of David Steinberg illustrate the beauty of human sexuality is naturally part of the lives of those with
disabilities.
From San Francisco Chronicle photographs and content Erotic By Nature: David Steinberg
Warning – this article and the links contain explicit sexual content.
Who is sexy? Who is sexual? Who is sexually desirable? Who is sexually vibrant? Continue reading
By Jill Clark – The Sunday Times – When he first saw Anne it was in 30C Kenyan heat and he was drawn to her tall, slender frame, her smile and that flicker in her eyes. Norman made her laugh with a bad joke after noticing her callipers. Though his humour was a little off-colour they talked all night, and by sunrise this encounter — 10 years ago at a charity-work barbecue in Machakos, Kenya — was the start of a traditional courtship between two very different people: a black disabled teacher from western Kenya and a white ex-miner from Newcastle.
They were living 300 miles apart, volunteering in disadvantaged schools. With no telephones, they would send each other love letters, and when they were together, they slept in separate rooms. Once married, their romance would see Anne Wafula Strike become a Paralympian wheelchair-racer, a model, a motivational speaker and, perhaps most significantly, a mother. Continue reading