ABSTRACT
This work starts from the assumption that the assurance of sexual and reproductive rights for disabled people is a human rights and social justice issue. Viewing disability as a category of analysis, the goal of this chapter is to characterise contributions from Critical Disability Studies in the achievement of sexual and reproductive rights for disabled people. Therefore, to begin with, some results from research carried out in Brazil will be briefly presented with the aim of showing the main barriers that disabled people face on a daily basis in practising their sexuality. Secondly, there is an attempt to set out the relationship of these barriers to the understanding of disability originating in the biomedical model, which, through the literature that establishes normative and deviating sexualities, delegitimises the sexual agency of disabled people. Finally, certain fundamental theoretical-methodological assumptions to be incorporated into professional practices, committed to ensuring the sexual and reproductive rights of disabled people, will be presented. These are: break with the normalisation processes; incorporate the intersectional perspective; consider the relations of dependence and interdependence; consider sexuality as a process of creation; and promote the participation of disabled people in issues concerning sexuality and reproduction.
(sexuality, disability, intersectionality, social justice)
