Resources for Students
Sexuality, Disability, and the Power to Disrupt: Transforming Intimacy and Access
February 13-14, 2026
Held via Zoom
Call for Abstracts
We invite scholars, activists, artists, community members, and practitioners to submit proposals for a two-day virtual conference focused on the rich, complex, and often marginalized intersection of disability and sexuality. This event seeks to center disabled voices, challenge assumptions, and open space for conversations about love, desire, pleasure, and intimacy.
The conference aims to "crip" - or transform - dominant sexual narratives and reimagine what desire, love, and connection can look like through lived experiences of disabled people.
We strongly encourage submissions from disabled presenters and those from underrepresented communities, including BIPOC, Indigenous, 2SLGBTQ+ folks, and neurodivergent people.
Topics may include (but are not limited to):
- Disabled 2SLGBTQ+ sexualities
- Access intimacy and care relationships
- Online dating, hookup culture, and digital sexual fields
- BDSM and kink as sites of access, power, and transformation
- Sex education and reproductive justice
- Cultural and media representations
- Pleasure activism and erotic justice
- Asexuality, aromanticism, and other marginalized or non-normative sexual and relational identities
- Intersectionality and interlocking oppressions (e.g., race, class, gender)
- Ethical considerations in research on sexuality and disability
Submission Deadline: October 15, 2025
Notification of Acceptance: November 15, 2025
Our sponsors:
University of Calgary, Cumming School of Medicine, Department of Community Health Sciences
The University of Winnipeg, Disability Studies Program
Centre for Sexuality; University of Calgary, O'Brien Institute for Public Health, Health Equity Hub; SGWH* research hub; Disability and Sexuality Lab
Our partners:
Community Rehabilitation and Disability Studies Student Association (CRDSSA)
Visit the conference website or download the call for papers
Email: disabilitysexualityconference@gmail.com
X: @DisSex_Lab
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The University of Winnipeg is committed to being an inclusive and welcoming space for all 2SLGBTQ+ students, staff, faculty, and community members. We are committed to gender inclusivity, countering homophobia and transphobia, decolonizing gender and sexuality, and building community by, with, and for UWinnipeg members with diverse gender identities, gender expressions, and sexualities.
Access information here about opportunities to connect, resources, services, and learning opportunities for 2SLGBTQ+ faculty, staff, and students, and their allies.
This resource guide was developed specifically for trans and gender diverse students at The University of Winnipeg. It provides information and resources for navigating aspects of UWinnipeg’s systems and campuses, as well as links to services and supports outside of UWinnipeg that are relevant for trans and gender diverse students. This guide may also serve as a resource for those supporting trans and gender diverse students.
This guide will continue to be updated to reflect accurate information on our programs, facilities, systems, and services and how they help to meet the needs and priorities of trans and gender diverse students.
The Sexual Violence Response Team is a small group of senior staff who coordinate accommodations and resources for students who have experienced sexual violence. They can be reached at 204-230-6660 (call or text) or at svrt@uwinnipeg.ca
Available during University business hours (Monday to Friday 8:30am-5:00pm).
Learn more about the Sexual Violence Response Team and the supports available to the UW community