WGST 1413 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Antisexualism, Environmental Racism, Medical Model

• School: Acadia University
• Department: Women's and Gender Studies
• Course: WGST 1413
• Professor: Sarah Rudrum

Document Summary

Buying beauty products can make you feel like you"re empowered. Democratization of sex: the idea that within the sexualization of culture, the idea is that people have access to sexualization/sexuality (class/race) Social conditions of disability: war, terrorism, medical intervention + care practices, pace of life. Inspiration porn : change (people with disability in charge) if disability is constructed, it can be deconstructed environmental racism. Reading individual productivity + performance as disabling (pace of life) Desexualization of people with disability (queer, sexy)