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“‘The market needs a high-end voice,’ says Maria O’Sullivan-Abeyratne, CEO and founder of Adaptista, a fashion-forward adaptive platform launching in November. ‘In the history of the internet, disabled people have never been able to go to a luxury brand’s website and buy anything, really, unless it’s a candle.’ Adaptista will offer a range of adaptive items at different price points, but the overall feel will be significantly more elevated than most adaptive platforms out there…
“Adaptista is sponsoring a disabled student to complete a degree in fashion design next year, and O’Sullivan-Abeyratne has two adaptive collections of her own in the works: a wedding collection, inspired by her own struggle to find a wedding dress that worked for her, as well as a fetish and bondage line, ‘because people just don’t think that anyone with a disability has a sex life!’ she says.” (via Emily Farra/Vogue)
“Sex was my first form of meditation — my first place of play and emotional exploration. Its power is so potent to my person that while I respect and admire those that can turn it into performance art — my body refuses. My system demands authentic carnal connection because as an assumed autistic — I can smell a facade (and to me it smells like processed food farts.)” (via TeenyTinyTaylor/MakeLoveNotPorn)
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“Currently, only three states in the [United States] explicitly include special ed students in their sex-ed requirements. Six other states provide optional resources adapted for more accessible sex-ed curriculums. Thirty-six states fail to mention students with special needs at all…A glance at a radically different approach taken in Britain shows us that it is possible to do better for all our children.
“In Britain, this mandate includes special-ed students and offers a whole gamut of specific recommendations for them: encouraging a “spiral curriculum,” in which topics are revisited regularly in greater depth; avoiding euphemistic language (like “sleeping together”) that can confuse children with disabilities, especially those on the autistic spectrum; using experiential learning, including field trips to health clinics; and role-playing during which students are given a chance to practice saying “no.”(via Cammie McGovern/The New York Times Opinion)
Image source: Adaptista
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