Ep #6: "I am in love with this unpredictable body"

Femme FM

Disabled femmes & disabled femmes of colour speak about everything from racism in the disabled community to love and sex, and the buzz-wordiness of "accessibility" in progressive spaces/organizations. Co-Host Rebecca Stuckey shares her personal story and experience with disability. Masuma Khan speaks about the stigma of being a young person with a cane and accessibility at work and the mosque. Author Kaleigh Trace shares a NEW piece of writing and speaks with us about how navigating consent is complicated when your body is medicalized. Kate speaks about her experience doing care work, as a traumatized femme with a disability and how important it is for her activism and feminism to centre folks with intellectual disabilities. ~*~*~*~*~ Music on today's episode: Jay Som - Lipstick Stains Mitski - First Love/Late Spring Vagabon - Mal à L'aise Night Owl - Broke For Free ~*~*~*~*~ Masuma Khan is a third-year Dalhousie student majoring in international development studies. She’s the outreach and campaigns coordinator at the Equity and Accessibility office for the Dal Student Union. Kaleigh Trace is a queer, disabled writer and sex educator. She’s the author of the brilliant book Hot, Wet & Shaking: How I Learned To Talk About Sex and the blog The Fucking Facts. She used to work at Venus Envy in Halifax, where she led workshops exploring disability, desirability, resistance, sex toys and more. Now she’s living in Toronto, where she continues to do incredible work. Kate is a queer, femme, disabled, and traumatized spinster-cat-mom. She has been caring, supporting and holding space for folks with intellectual disabilities for nearly 5 years. This has left her fiercely passionate and angry about accessibility and recognizing, honouring and holding femme magic and labour close.