Our Body-Minds Are Not Apologies: How Systemic Oppression, Beauty Standards & Desirability Politics Impact the Body-Image & Sex Lives of Trans & Non-Binary People with Physical (Dis)abilities

• Main Author: Mack, Elm L
• Format: Text
• Language: English
• Published: PDXScholar 2024
• Subjects: Body-Image; Desirability Politics; Trans & Non-Binary; Disability; Sex & Intimacy; Disability Studies; Lesbian; Gay; Bisexual; and Transgender Studies; Other Feminist; Gender; and Sexuality Studies; Queer Studies; Social Justice; Alicia; Finley; sami
• Online Access: https://pdxscholar.library.pdx.edu/honorstheses/1468; https://pdxscholar.library.pdx.edu/context/honorstheses/article/2726/viewcontent/auto_convert.pdf

Due to the ableism, whiteness, and cisgender-heteropatriarchy in the US, people who are marked by racial, physical, neuro, and gendered differences are stereotypically considered to be less desirable. By applying a perspective informed by Disability Studies, Trans Studies, and Queer of Color Theory...