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Care Work (2018) 4 stars

"In their new, long-awaited collection of essays, Lambda Literary Award-winning writer and longtime disability justice …

During a brunch hangout the day after the show, some of us started talking about feedback Black, queer wheelchair dancer Alice Sheppard had written on her blog after seeing the show—that while she appreciated the hotness of the performance, she wanted more than positive portrayals of disabled sexuality. She wanted someone to do a piece about what it was like when your catheter falls out during sex and you spray your partner in the face with urine. E.T. and I became friends and artistic collaborators, and began to write and dream some of those real-life, complicated crip sexuality stories that hover between joy, shame, and just being.

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