Advocacy Archives - Real Talk

Real Talk is Hiring a Peer Coordinator

Written by real.talk on January 20, 2023. Posted in News.

Real Talk is hiring a Peer Coordinator for our brand new, one-year project Real Talk: Connecting 2SLGBTQIA+ Communities.

Advocacy, consent, contract, education, health, hiring, LGBTQ, recruit, rights, support

Ask A Dude Zoom Hangout, Tues Jan 17, 2 – 4pm

Written by real.talk on December 21, 2022.

Guys with cognitive disabilities join over Zoom & talk with a Certified Sexual Health Educator about dating, love, and sex .

Advocacy, birth control, boundaries, consent, contraception, dating, disability, education, intimacy, LGBTQ, love, loving, Marriage, masturbation, pleasure, Relationships, rights, safer sex, Sex, sexuality

Classic Zoom Hangout, Wed Jan 4, 5 – 7pm

Written by real.talk on December 21, 2022.

Adults with cognitive disabilities join on Zoom to talk about dating, relationships, love, & sex with certified sexual health educators.

Classic Zoom Hangout, Tues Dec 13, 2 – 4pm

Written by real.talk on November 30, 2022.

Adults with cognitive disabilities join on Zoom to talk about dating, relationships, love, & sex with certified sexual health educators.

Advocacy, birth control, boundaries, consent, contraception, dating, disability, intimacy, love, loving, Marriage, masturbation, pleasure, Relationships, rights, safer sex, Sex, support

VCHA Guide to Supporting Sexual Health and Intimacy in Care Facilities

Written by real.talk on November 9, 2022. Posted in Resources.

Vancouver Coastal Health Authority published a pocket guide detailing how to support the sexuality of folks living in care facilities.

Advocacy, consent, education, health, pleasure, Relationships, rights, Sex, sexuality, support

LGBTQ+ Zoom Hangout, Tues Nov 8, 2 – 4pm

Written by real.talk on October 20, 2022.

This is an LGBTQ friendly event, hosted on Zoom.

Advocacy, autism, birth control, boundaries, consent, contraception, covid, dating, disability, education, intimacy, LGBTQ, love, loving, Marriage, masturbation, pleasure, Relationships, rights, safer sex, Sex, sexuality, support

Women’s Zoom Hangout

Written by real.talk on October 3, 2022.

Women with cognitive disabilities get together to talk about dating, love, relationships, and sex with a Certified Sexual Health Educator.

Advocacy, birth control, boundaries, consent, contraception, dating, disability, education, love, Marriage, masturbation, pleasure, Relationships, rights, safer sex, Sex, sexuality

What Can I do if my Doctor Doesn’t Listen to me?

Written by real.talk on July 12, 2022. Posted in Videos.

Advocacy, disability, doctors, human rights, medical professionals, rights

The Ups & Downs of Dating With a Cognitive Disability

Written by real.talk on December 13, 2021. Posted in News.

In this podcast, people share their stories & living experiences on this topic.

Advocacy, assault, boundaries, dating, intimacy, love, podcast, survivors

Andrew Gurza on Going Without Sex For a Year During COVID

Written by real.talk on February 8, 2021. Posted in News.

Writer and disability activist Andrew Gurza realized last week that because of COVID, its’ been a year since he’s had sex.

activism, Advocacy, covid, handi, pleasure, Sex, sex workers, sexuality, support, surrogates

Aaron Philip and ‘Beauty Isn’t Binary’

Written by real.talk on May 25, 2020. Posted in News.

Aaron Philip is the first black, transgender and disabled model to sign for a leading agency.

Advocacy, disability, LGBTQ, rights, sexuality

Satire Videos From Edmonton’s Self Advocacy Federation

Written by real.talk on November 20, 2019. Posted in News.

Edmonton’s Self-Advocacy Federation is an advocacy and support organization for adults with cognitive disabilities and their allies. Among many other activities, the Self-Advocacy...

Advocacy, advocate, dating, disability, Edmonton, federation, LGBTQ, love, loving, Relationships, self, Sex, sexuality, support

Guardian Article About Disability and the Right to Love

Written by real.talk on November 5, 2019. Posted in News.

The Guardian UK edition does a great piece about people with cognitive disabilities and sexuality. You can read it here.

Advocacy, dating, disability, Guardian, love, newspaper, Sex, sexuality, support, UK

“Queer enough to know what I want; disabled enough to be ignored”

Written by real.talk on July 11, 2019. Posted in News.

Yolanda Vargas is a proud Latinx disabled woman who is Queer/Bi/Pansexual. In this article, she discusses the ways she feels her queer sexuality is erased by those in her life...

Advocacy, dating, disability, LGBTQ, queer, Sex, sexuality

Romance, Relationships & Rights

Written by real.talk on April 25, 2019. Posted in News.

Join us for this theatre performance created by and with self-advocates supported by the Community Living Society and based on research from the UBC Centre for Inclusion and Citizenship. The...

Advocacy, boundaries, consent, dating, development, disability, loving, pleasure, Relationships, rights, Sex, sexuality, support

Catalogue of Adaptive Sex Toys & Technologies From Australia

Written by real.talk on February 20, 2019. Posted in News.

Many people use sexual devices to enhance sexual pleasure – either when masturbating by themselves or when having partnered sex. Many people do not experience orgasm (alone or during...

adaptive, Advocacy, Australia, catalog, catalogue, disability, orgasm, pleasure, Sex, technologies, technology, toys

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