HOW TO ACHIEVE EQUALITY FOR PERSONS WITH DISABILITIES-PWDs
The
personal and private lives of the disabled should be treated equally
worthy as anyone’s life; the disabled are entitled to full human
rights. Sexual repression is one way of denying the disabled equal
access and enjoyment of human rights. If we end social seclusion and
the poverty that hits the disabled people, then we will have
automatically helped to solve the issues revolving around their
sexuality as well. When we talk about sex and love, we basically
mean acceptance, this acceptance is both on a personal as well as
being accepted by the significant others, and this will make life
full and enjoyable to live.
Matters
of sexuality can cause deep oppression and deep pain to any
individual, we often find that many disability movements find it easy
both to talk about and to come up with strategies of changing issues
concerning housing, employment, education and others matters. But the
same movements will not address issues relating to the exclusion from
sexuality and also exclusion from reproduction.
Many
people don’t acknowledge that sexuality is socially created, they
even don’t accept that sexuality is historically variable and has
turned to be deeply political and the trend is growing even further
and even deeper. Some of us give a lot of attention to disability as
a medical issue. They see it as individual as well. They even go to
an extend of seeing disability as natural and inexorable. On the
contrary, we need to understand that disability is the aspect where
the social and economic and also structural aspects of the individual
have been overcome. And these have nothing to with the deficit of the
person’s body or even brain. In short, the
society has disabled the persons living with disabilities more than
how their disabilities have disabled them. If we started by dealing
with the prejudiced attitudes, then we will be fighting a winning
battle for inclusion of the disabled into the society.
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