At the Limits of Pleasure
An online conference on disabilities, arts, and sexualities
Dublin City University | EROSS | March 11 - March 13, 2021
Professor Robert McRuer, George Washington University, United States of America
Chair: Dr Kit Fryatt, Dublin City University, Ireland
Professor Therí A. Pickens, Bates College, United States of America
Chair: Dr Briege Casey, Dublin City University, Ireland
Panel 1: Erotics & Transformations: Queer/ Crip Epistemologies
Schizo* is Sexy: The Eroticism and Exoticism of the "Mysterious Madness"
Perverting Liberation
‘Shade[s] of Queer’: Autism and the Inventiveness of Sexuality
Chair: Mr Jean-Philippe Imbert, Dublin City University, Ireland
Ren Koloni, George Washington University, USA
Dr Johnathan Smilges, Texas Woman's University, USA
Abby Stannard Ashley, University of Bristol, University of Exeter, UK
Panel 2: Disabled Be-Cummings: Porn and Fanfiction
Fucking, not Fetishising: Agency, Devotees and Representation of Disabled People in Porn
Blind Fingering, Hurt/Comfort, and other Tropes: How Disability is Used in Explicit Fanfiction
On Queer Disability and Sex
Chair: Mr David Carroll (IRC), Dublin City University, Ireland
Dr Caroline West, Independent Scholar, Ireland
Lindsay Mixer, Widener University, USA
Andrew Gurza, Disability Awareness Consultant and Cripple Content Creator, Canada
Panel 3: Reclaiming & Imag(in)ing Subjectivities
Disabilities, Subjectivities and Sexualities (Reclaiming and Celebrating)
A Room with a Lesbian, Autistic View: A Queer, Transdisciplinary Perspective of Great Art
Reclaiming the Viral Body: Eroticism, HIV, and Danez Smith’s Poetry
Chair: Dr Michael Hinds, Dublin City University, Ireland
Denise Beckwith, Western Sydney University, Australia
Dr Suzanne van Rossenberg, Independent Researcher, UK
Alex Torres, University of Bristol, UK
Panel 4: Visual & Queer Deconstructions of Compulsory Able-bodiedness
Challenging Devaluation! – Cinematic Portrayals of Disability and Queerness
Disabled Sexualities and Neoliberal Values in Orange is the New Black
Disability and Sexuality in the movie Sanctuary
Chair: Dr Alicia Castillo Villanueva, Dublin City University, Ireland
Dr Petra Anders, University of Bamberg, Germany
Irena Jurković, University of Zadar, Croatia
Dr Paul McNamara, Mary Immaculate College, Ireland
Panel 5: Interrogating Stigma & Marginalisation: Practicalities and Realities
Tactile Art-Based Teaching and Sexual Behaviours in Young Adults with Dual Sensory Impairment: Perspectives of Professionals Working with Them
“They Were Shaving My Head and It Was Even More Upsetting than the SCI Itself”: Liminality and De/sexualization of the Disabled Body
Chair: Dr Briege Casey, Dublin City University, Ireland
Supriya Das & Dr Atul Jaiswal Perkins India, India & Université de Montréal, Canada
Laura Sanmiquel-Molinero & Dr Andrea García-Santesmases Fernández Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, Spain & Universitat Oberta de Catalunya, Spain
Panel 6: Subverting the Heroine through Visual Modalities
Crippin’ the Disabled Heroine: Queer and Enabling Futures in Shonali Bose’s Margarita with a Straw (2014)
Visual Art as Visual Literacy: Interdicting the Delusion with Reference to ‘Sexualities, Desires, and Emotions’ of Disabled Humans
Chair: Anindita Bhattacharya, Dublin City University, Ireland
Shabnam Rathee, Murdoch University, Western Australia
Dr Amodini Sreedharan, Independent Researcher, India
Panel 7: At the Limits of Pleasure: (Un)desirability & Representation
Disabling Desire and Reading Barthes’ The Pleasure of the Text
The Sexual Model of Disability
Chair: Dr Sarah Meehan O’Callaghan, Dublin City University, Ireland
Dr Geraldine Cuddihy, Independent Researcher, Ireland
Dr Anna Mollow, Independent Scholar, United States of America
With Dr Sarah Meehan O’Callaghan, Dublin City University, Ireland
With Dr Olga Springer, Dublin City University, Ireland