Disability Intimacy

The multifaceted experiences of intimacy as lived by disabled people, encompassing not only sexuality and romantic relationships but also emotional well-being, support networks, interpersonal trust, family planning, self-connection, communication in relationships, and bodily autonomy. Disability intimacy challenges narrow definitions that reduce intimacy to sex, and pushes back against deficit-oriented frameworks that treat disabled people's intimate lives as problems to be fixed. It recognizes intimacy as a fundamental human right shaped by intersecting identities including disability, gender, sexuality, race, and culture.