Cripping and Queering Consent Education: Bridging Disability Justice, Queer Joy, and Gender-Based Violence Prevention

• In Event: Cripping and Queering Advocacy and Experience

Abstract

Drawing on findings from The Queer Sexual Joy Project, as well as scholarship from crip, queer, and BIPOC theorists, we reveal how Disability Justice principles, such as interdependence, collective access, and access intimacy, offer transformative understandings for anti-gender-based violence education. We crip and queer approaches to sexual consent education by learning from diverse 2SLGBTQ+, disabled trauma survivors’ affective experiences of queercrip sexual joy and the radically messy ways these youth establish care networks for deeply pleasurable sex through the principles of Disability Justice. In doing so we consider how these principles can be mobilized in gender-based violence prevention education to help foster more caring, just, sustainable sexual cultures for all young people.

Author

• JJ Wright, MacEwan University