Forced Intimacy: An Ableist Norm
Mingus names the structural experience of disabled people being forced to disclose bodies, needs, medical histories, and vulnerability in order to access basic survival.
Mia Mingus / 8 minsFeminist analysis, commentary, and research
Explore feminist perspectives through in-depth analysis and commentary.
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Mingus writes from disability justice to critique how beauty, normality, and desirability organize bodily value, proposing a liberatory politics of moving toward the ugly.
Mia Mingus / 9 minsMia Mingus introduces access intimacy: the bodily ease, trust, and relational safety that can emerge when someone deeply understands and respects a disabled person's access needs.
Mia Mingus / 8 minsMia Mingus explains why social justice movements must move from treating disability as an individual problem or single-issue rights concern toward understanding it as political experience, community history, and a framework for collective liberation.
Mia Mingus / 8 mins