Acsexxxable
Building anti-oppression and sex-positive communities

About us

The Acsexxxable Working Group is a collective of people with disabilities and their allies who promote and create sex-positive spaces. We are creating politicized spaces that value bodies, identities and experiences that are typically excluded from sex-positive spaces and generally sexually oppressed.

We work to challenge assumptions about people with disabilities. We also work to challenge assumptions about sex. We believe that all people, with all kinds of bodies, are sexy. We think that sex should not be shameful.
Currently, Acsexxxable is organizing an accessible sex party as well as sexy make-out parties to raise money necessary for the party and to warm up for our first sex party. We hope this will become a regular event in the future!

If you are interested in getting involved with organizing these parties, if you have money you can donate towards them or if you are interested in hearing announcements about our events, please contact us.

Acsexxxable is also organizing "A is for Acsexxxable", a series of workshops designed with community building, anti-oppression politics, and good "old fashioned" sex ed in mind. These sexy "how-to" skill-building, discussion-based and anti-oppression workshops are part of creating an accessible sex party that is fun, respectful, thoughtful and hot! Find out more about our workshop series on our upcoming events page.

Why create sex-positive spaces that are accessible?

Western culture has a history of sex negativity resulting in shame, body hatred and being disconnected from others and ourselves. This serves the interests of dominant groups by disempowering, misrepresenting or outright erasing the sexualities and sexual expressions and experiences of members of marginalized communities.

For those of us with disabilities, additional barriers further exacerbate this reality. These include but aren't limited to physical barriers (e.g. stairs, inaccessible washrooms, areas or equipment), communication barriers (dim lighting, loud music, overcrowding, unfamiliarity with sign language, lack of interpreters, interveners and facilitators), and attitudinal barriers (biases, myths, assumptions regarding what is sexy, ignorance, fear).

These are human rights violations we already face on a daily basis. They also result in the often-unavoidable prioritization of some basic needs (e.g. food, housing, attendant care, transportation, employment) over others, such as sexuality, entertainment, spontaneity and pleasure. This contributes to the reasons why mobilizing around sexuality can be overlooked in disability communities, despite the interconnectedness of lived experiences, but also reflects the internalization of the "lessons" learned living in a sex-negative and ableist culture.

Perceptions of persons with disabilities as non-sexual, undesirable and unimportant can change through the creation of spaces where the full beauty, complexity, agency and desirability of all people is respected, celebrated, and fucked silly.

We challenge existing sex-positive communities to take up this important work as well.

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