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Love & Disability

Love & Disability

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Love and Disability is a podcast about love and sex from a disabled perspective, with host Alice Edwards.


Produced by Filt

Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Artur Leczycki
Parenting & Families Relationships Social Sciences
Episodes
  • Brittney: "You can fantasize anything"
    Oct 17 2023

    Brittney Neunzig is thirteen years old when her life changes forever.


    She’s in love with a boy in school, and with romance novels. She constantly fantasizes about being swept up in passionate whirlwind romances. But after an accident that renders her paralyzed from the chest down, she thinks those fantasies are forever out of reach.


    Little did she know that her imagination would be central in her sexual journey.


    Participants: Brittney Neunzig, Katherine Sellors, an occupational therapist and a researcher for Enhance the UK.

    Host: Alice Lee Edwards

    Produced by Filt


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    25 mins
  • Leon: "I was that cracked egg"
    Oct 17 2023

    Leon Harris is the goofy guy who grows up with a protective mother and in 2007 her worst nightmare comes true. He almost dies, becomes paralyzed from his chest down and loses about 70 percent of his feelings in his arms. Never wanting to see him hurt again, she protects him from everything, including love.


    But this isn't a story about loss, this is a story about restoration.


    Participants: Leon Harris, Jen Dainty, a clinical psychologist practicing in the UK.

    Host: Alice Lee Edwards

    Produced by Filt

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    31 mins
  • Gem: "OMG I got a match"
    Oct 17 2023

    England is on lockdown, the Covid pandemic is forcing people into isolation. And alone in her apartment in West Yorkshire, Gem Turner is facing off with her inner demons.

    After almost 30 years of being programmed into thinking that she doesn’t belong in the dating world, Gem finally musters up enough courage, and downloads a dating app.


    And quickly, she meets three clear categories of men: : The “I don’t even see your disability”, the “You teach me so much”, and “ The Fetisher”.


    Participants: Gem Turner, Rhoda Olkin a distinguished professor of clinical psychology at a graduate school that trains therapists at alliant university in the US.

    Host: Alice Lee Edwards

    Produced by Filt

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    27 mins

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