Sexy Like Us

Disability, Humor, and Sexuality

Teresa Milbrodt

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University Press of Mississippi
27 July 2022

Social issues & processes; Disability: social aspects; Folklore, myths & legends; Sociology: sexual relations; Sexual behaviour

Sexy Like Us: Disability, Humor, and Sexuality takes a humorous, intimate approach to disability through the stories, jokes, performances, and other creative expressions of people with disabilities. Author Teresa Milbrodt explores why individuals can laugh at their leglessness, find stoma bags sexual, discover intimacy in scars, and flaunt their fragility in ways both hilarious and serious. Their creative and comic acts crash, collide, and collaborate with perceptions of disability in literature and dominant culture, allowing people with disabilities to shape political disability identity and disability pride, call attention to social inequalities, and poke back at ableist cultural norms.

This book also discusses how the ambivalent nature of comedy has led to debates within disability communities about when it is acceptable to joke, who has permission to joke, and which jokes should be used inside and outside a community’s inner circle. Joking may be difficult when considering aspects of disability that involve physical or emotional pain and struggles to adapt to new forms of embodiment. At the same time, people with disabilities can use humor to expand the definitions of disability and sexuality. They can help others with disabilities assert themselves as sexy and sexual. And they can question social norms and stigmas around bodies in ways that open up journeys of being, not just for individuals who consider themselves disabled, but for all people.

By: Teresa Milbrodt
Imprint: University Press of Mississippi
Country of Publication: United States
Dimensions: Height: 228mm, Width: 152mm, Spine: 16mm
Weight: 151g
ISBN: 9781496838926
ISBN 10: 1496838920
Pages: 278
Publication Date: 27 July 2022
Audience: Professional and scholarly , Undergraduate
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

Teresa Milbrodt is a creative writer, disability scholar, and assistant professor at Roanoke College. She is author of three short story collections, a flash fiction collection, and a novel, as well as several critical articles in disability studies.

Reviews for Sexy Like Us: Disability, Humor, and Sexuality

Sexy Like Us is a unique contribution to the field of disability studies that can help us rethink, even with a laugh, the meaning of sex, humor, and disability in electronic platforms, on the comedy stage, and more generally on the stage of everyday life.--Tanya Titchkosky, author of Reading and Writing Disability Differently: The Textured Life of Embodiment