Poul Rohleder
Biographic Data
| ID | 1446731 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Poul Rohleder |
| GIVEN NAMES | Poul |
| FAMILY NAME | Rohleder |
| SIGNATURE | ROHLEDER P |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of East London |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-5052-0464 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 39 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 185 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 39 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2005 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 7 |
Research as relationships
One of the most enjoyable moments in my experience of being involved in research took place in 2015 at a research project planning workshop in Cape Town, South Africa. I was part of a research team that included Prof. Leslie Swartz, who was meeting with potential participants to discuss a new research project on sexuality and physical disability. At some point in the morning, I was in the process of explaining the proposed use of photovoice as a …
Homophobia, heteronormativity and melancholia
This paper explores the impact of homophobia, internalised homophobia and heteronormativity on the psychic lives of some gay men, as depicted in the film "All of Us Strangers". Themes of Oedipal rejection, alienation, melancholia, mourning and loss are explored
Gay men’s experiences of holding hands in public
For many members of the LGBTQ community, holding hands with their partners in public, and other public displays of affection (PDAs) is seldom a carefree and spontaneous act. Survey studies have previously indicated that a majority of LGBTQ individuals report that they never hold hands with their partner in public, out of a fear of possible negative or abusive reactions from others. To contribute to qualitative research in this area, in this artic…
Holding hands
Many LGBTQ individuals grow up with a sense of being ‘other’ in a heteronormative society. This is not just an internal psychological experience, as many LGBTQ individuals report being recipients of hostility, victimisation and harassment. Interpersonally, homophobia and transphobia (both actual and fear of) may play out between partners and inhibit partners from commonplace displays of affection (e.g. holding hands in public). Holding hands in p…
Berom cultural beliefs and attitudes towards mental health problems in Nigeria
Beliefs and attitudes are essential in mental health discourse. However, cultural beliefs and attitudes towards mental health problems (ATMHPs) among the Berom people of Nigeria are under-researched. The present studies made original contributions using the Cultural Identity Model (CIM) as predictors to investigate ATMHPs, and semi-structured interviews to further explain the potential impact of cultural beliefs on MHPs. In study-1, N = 140 parti…
Critical psychology perspectives on LGBTQ+ mental health
Sexual and gender minorities continue to face inequalities, discrimination and hostility, and in some parts of the world, significant threat. While in a country like the United Kingdom, many equalities for gay, lesbian and bisexual (LGB) individuals have been won (less so for, trans individuals), homonegativity and transnegativity remain significant issues. In other parts of the world, homosexuality is still considered a pathology and a crime, an…
Lols@stigma
This paper examines how, in the midst of changing political times, some characteristics of HIV activism are changing, and suggests the relevance of these shifts for other fields of health activism. Despite the UK achieving UNAIDS’s ‘90–90-90ʹ testing and treatment goals, many in the UK lack up-to-date HIV knowledge and retain stigmatising attitudes, and some areas of testing failure remain. In response, people with HIV and HIV organisations are g…
(Re)presenting the self
Photovoice is presented here as an emancipatory, participatory research method with the potential to put minority subjects in charge of their own representation. Drawing on research with disabled people conducted in South Africa, we argue that the meaning of images is often hostage to interpretations which reify untruths about the subject. We consider how photovoice projects may give rise to images that perpetuate the subjugation of their subject…
Impairment, socialization and embodiment
When it comes to HIV, that's when you find out the genuinity of that love
Despite a medical discourse of the 'normalisation' of HIV, it remains a highly stigmatising condition and makes the issue of disclosing one's HIV status particularly complex. This article reports on the experience of 18 people living with HIV in the United Kingdom of disclosing their HIV+ status in arguably their most important relationship, their intimate partnership. Five main themes arose: disclosure as the battlefield, preparing psychological…
Dating persons with physical disabilities
There is good reason to believe that the attitudes of persons without disability towards dating a person with a physical disability might be unfavourable. However, in general, and in the Global South in particular, there is a dearth of research in this area. This study sought to take the first step in addressing this lack of enquiry, by surveying the attitudes of a general population sample in South Africa towards dating people with physical disa…
I think if I had turned up sporting a beard and a dress then you get in trouble’
Research into the experiences of transgender students in the United Kingdom is extremely limited, despite surveys suggesting high levels of discrimination exist. This study aimed to explore the experiences of transgender students at UK universities, focusing on challenges and support. Six participants took part in semi-structured interviews which were analysed using thematic analysis. Two themes encompassing challenges and support experienced wer…
Ameliorating transnegativity
We demonstrate that pedagogic interventions utilising mediated contact and the parasocial contact hypothesis provide an effective means of instantiating both an immediate and long-term reduction in prejudice towards transgender people. Through application of the parasocial contact hypothesis, our quasi-experiment demonstrates that exposure to the combined intervention of a panel presentation and a trans-themed film resulted in a significant reduc…
Sexuality erased, questioned, and explored
The sexuality of people with disabilities has historically been a site of oppression and discrimination. The sexuality of people with disabilities remains relatively under-researched and poorly understood. As a result, many myths and misconceptions about the sexuality of people with disabilities may prevail. This paper reports on findings from a qualitative study exploring the experiences of 13 people with physical disabilities in South Africa. A…
Creative collaboration on a disability and sexuality participatory action research project
This article presents a team’s engagement with a creative collaborative project challenging the myths about the sexuality of people with physical disabilities in South Africa. The article is presented as a reflective diary account, which has been constructed from minutes of meetings, email correspondence, and personal reflections of the activities undertaken. We reflect on the work we have done and what we have learned as well as the decisions an…
Withdrawn, strong, kind, but de-gendered
The present paper examines stereotyping in relation to physical disability and gender in the South Africa. Cross-sectional data for the present study were gathered using free response items in a large survey (n = 1990) examining the attitudes of people without disability towards different facetsof sexuality and disability. The most prominent stereotypes found in thepresent study were those which characterised PWPD as withdrawn and shy, SuperCrips…
Intimacy, intercourse and adjustments
There is a growing recognition of the sexual and reproductive rights of people with disabilities, and since the World Health Organisation's World Report on Disability, increased international attention has been given to these issues. Past research, however, suggests that this group encounter barriers to sexual and reproductive rights, which are both physical and attitudinal. Against this backdrop, this article employs a sequential mixed qualitati…
Towards a psychology of sexual health
Increased attention has been made in recent years to issues of sexual and reproductive health in relation to broader social and political environments and human rights issues. The World Health Organization (WHO, 2015) has indicated that we cannot consider sexual and reproductive health concerns such as HIV and other sexually transmitted diseases, sexual violence, sexual problems, unwanted pregnancies and unsafe abortions, without considering disc…
The sexual lives of people with disabilities within low- and middle-income countries
BACKGROUND: Although approximately 80% of the global population of people with disabilities reside in low- and middle-income countries (LMICs), very little is known about their sexual lives due to a lack of empirical data. We aimed to provide a scoping review of English-language research conducted on disability and sexuality in LMICs. OBJECTIVE: Our research questions concerned what topics in disability and sexuality have (and have not) been inve…
The Sexual Health Knowledge of People with Intellectual Disabilities
Experience of sexual self-esteem among men living with HIV
Much of the focus on sexual health for people living with HIV has been on promoting safe sex behaviours. However, also important for sexual health is a positive sexual self-esteem. This article reports on an interpretative phenomenological analysis of interviews with seven men about the impact that having HIV has had on their sense of sexual self. Five overarching themes were identified: the 'destruction' of a sexual self; feeling sexually hazard…
Disability and HIV in Africa
Three decades into the HIV pandemic, the issues affecting people with disabilities remain less known. Increasing attention has been given to this overlooked population when it comes to HIV prevention, treatment and care. This is related to the significant unmet sexual and reproductive healthcare needs facing people with disabilities worldwide. This article discusses the barriers to sexual health for people with disabilities in Africa and presents…
The sexual and reproductive rights and benefit derived from sexual and reproductive health services of people with physical disabilities in South Africa
There is a body of theoretical work, and some empirical research, which suggests that non-disabled people assume people with physical disabilities are not suitable romantic partners, do not have sexual drives or desires, or are not sexually active. It has also been proposed that people with physical disabilities face barriers to sexual healthcare access which are structural as well as social. The present paper explores non-disabled South Africans…
Disability, sexuality and sexual health
This chapter discusses the enduring relevance of globalisation for understanding sexuality. It explores three general conceptual issues like language, place and time that often impede understanding relationships between globalisation and sexuality. The history of colonialism is important for understanding sexuality because sexuality was often a central technique of colonial rule. Interest in the gendering of globalisation connects as well to a gr…
Taking into Account the Quality of the Relationship in HIV Disclosure
Qualitative Research in Clinical and Health Psychology
1. Introduction: Qualitative Research in Clinical and Health Psychology Poul Rohleder and Antonia C. Lyons.- PART I: ISSUES IN QUALITATIVE RESEARCH.- 2. Epistemology and Qualitative Research Kerry Chamberlain.- 3. Ethical Issues in Qualitative Research Poul Rohleder and Charlotte Smith.- 4. Thinking about Culture and Language in Psychological Research and Practice Leslie Swartz.- 5. Ensuring Quality in Qualitative Research Gareth Treharne and Dam…
Ah, but the whiteys love to talk about themselves’
This article reports on an interdisciplinary and collaborative educational module prepared for fourth‐year Psychology and Social Work students at two higher education institutions in the Western Cape, South Africa. The aim of the module was to provide students with the opportunity to experience learning across the boundaries of institution, discipline, language, race and class, and to provide the team with data to enhance understanding of how stu…
Challenges faced by parents of children diagnosed with autism spectrum disorder
Few studies address the daily challenges faced by parents of children diagnosed with autism spectrum disorder. This article reports on a qualitative interview study with 20 parents exploring their experiences, challenges faced, and what has helped them to cope. A thematic analysis of the data identified five core categories: Dealing with challenging behaviour; dealing with judgements from others; lack of support; impact upon the family; coping an…
Providing Sex Education to Persons with Learning Disabilities in the Era of HIV/Aids
Research suggests that disabled people may be at increased risk for HIV infection, yet are excluded from HIV prevention campaigns. Historically people with learning disabilities have been constructed as either being asexual or sexually uninhibited, and sex education considered to be unnecessary or potentially harmful. This article reports on findings of a qualitative study exploring the challenges expressed by participants who provide sex educati…
We are Not Fresh’
Women have been identified as being at greater risk than men in South Africa's growing HIV epidemic. Stigma contributes to the epidemic, as it makes HIV-positive individuals reluctant to become identified and seek appropriate care. The purpose of this study is to begin to explore how women experience and deal with AIDS stigma under conditions where they have little formal support. In-depth, narrative interviews were conducted with ten HIV-positiv…
Ameliorating transnegativity
We demonstrate that pedagogic interventions utilising mediated contact and the parasocial contact hypothesis provide an effective means of instantiating both an immediate and long-term reduction in prejudice towards transgender people. Through application of the parasocial contact hypothesis, our quasi-experiment demonstrates that exposure to the combined intervention of a panel presentation and a trans-themed film resulted in a significant reduc…
Experience of sexual self-esteem among men living with HIV
Much of the focus on sexual health for people living with HIV has been on promoting safe sex behaviours. However, also important for sexual health is a positive sexual self-esteem. This article reports on an interpretative phenomenological analysis of interviews with seven men about the impact that having HIV has had on their sense of sexual self. Five overarching themes were identified: the 'destruction' of a sexual self; feeling sexually hazard…
I think if I had turned up sporting a beard and a dress then you get in trouble’
Research into the experiences of transgender students in the United Kingdom is extremely limited, despite surveys suggesting high levels of discrimination exist. This study aimed to explore the experiences of transgender students at UK universities, focusing on challenges and support. Six participants took part in semi-structured interviews which were analysed using thematic analysis. Two themes encompassing challenges and support experienced wer…
Broadening Psychology's Contribution to Addressing Issues of HIV/Aids, Poverty and Nutrition
HIV/AIDS, more than any other public health problem, challenges dominant models of the role of psychology in health promotion and prevention. This paper focuses on poverty and resulting food insecurity as a structural risk factor for HIV infection. The paper considers the role of health psychology in global health concerns and argues that, while individual-based interventions are important, health psychology needs to shift to playing a proper rol…
Holding hands
Many LGBTQ individuals grow up with a sense of being ‘other’ in a heteronormative society. This is not just an internal psychological experience, as many LGBTQ individuals report being recipients of hostility, victimisation and harassment. Interpersonally, homophobia and transphobia (both actual and fear of) may play out between partners and inhibit partners from commonplace displays of affection (e.g. holding hands in public). Holding hands in p…
Communities isn't just about trees and shops”
The question of what constitutes ‘a community’ or even ‘ the community’ takes on an extra salience in a divided society such as South Africa where the entire environment remains imprinted with the legacy of enforced segregation along racial lines. Higher education institutions need to prepare emerging health and social service students for the world of practice in a context of diversity, continuing segregation and marked inequality. As one step t…
(Re)presenting the self
Photovoice is presented here as an emancipatory, participatory research method with the potential to put minority subjects in charge of their own representation. Drawing on research with disabled people conducted in South Africa, we argue that the meaning of images is often hostage to interpretations which reify untruths about the subject. We consider how photovoice projects may give rise to images that perpetuate the subjugation of their subject…
Impairment, socialization and embodiment
Sexuality erased, questioned, and explored
The sexuality of people with disabilities has historically been a site of oppression and discrimination. The sexuality of people with disabilities remains relatively under-researched and poorly understood. As a result, many myths and misconceptions about the sexuality of people with disabilities may prevail. This paper reports on findings from a qualitative study exploring the experiences of 13 people with physical disabilities in South Africa. A…
Intimacy, intercourse and adjustments
There is a growing recognition of the sexual and reproductive rights of people with disabilities, and since the World Health Organisation's World Report on Disability, increased international attention has been given to these issues. Past research, however, suggests that this group encounter barriers to sexual and reproductive rights, which are both physical and attitudinal. Against this backdrop, this article employs a sequential mixed qualitati…
It Doesn't Matter Who or What We are, We are Still Just People’
South Africa, after decades of apartheid, continues to be a highly segregated society. Higher education institutions need to prepare students for work in such a divided society. Recent work on inter-group contact has stressed the importance of taking into account people's interpretation and meanings about contact in particular contexts, and the need for contact to involve dialogue about socio-historical situations. This article reports on a colla…
Withdrawn, strong, kind, but de-gendered
The present paper examines stereotyping in relation to physical disability and gender in the South Africa. Cross-sectional data for the present study were gathered using free response items in a large survey (n = 1990) examining the attitudes of people without disability towards different facetsof sexuality and disability. The most prominent stereotypes found in thepresent study were those which characterised PWPD as withdrawn and shy, SuperCrips…
Towards a psychology of sexual health
Increased attention has been made in recent years to issues of sexual and reproductive health in relation to broader social and political environments and human rights issues. The World Health Organization (WHO, 2015) has indicated that we cannot consider sexual and reproductive health concerns such as HIV and other sexually transmitted diseases, sexual violence, sexual problems, unwanted pregnancies and unsafe abortions, without considering disc…
The sexual and reproductive rights and benefit derived from sexual and reproductive health services of people with physical disabilities in South Africa
There is a body of theoretical work, and some empirical research, which suggests that non-disabled people assume people with physical disabilities are not suitable romantic partners, do not have sexual drives or desires, or are not sexually active. It has also been proposed that people with physical disabilities face barriers to sexual healthcare access which are structural as well as social. The present paper explores non-disabled South Africans…
Doing Time
In South Africa, graduating health professionals are required to do a compulsory year of community service before being able to register with their respective professional boards as independent practitioners. Community service posts for clinical psychologists were introduced in the Department of Correctional Services in 2005. The authors were among the first batch of clinical psychologists doing their community service within the Department of Co…
Homophobia, heteronormativity and melancholia
This paper explores the impact of homophobia, internalised homophobia and heteronormativity on the psychic lives of some gay men, as depicted in the film "All of Us Strangers". Themes of Oedipal rejection, alienation, melancholia, mourning and loss are explored
Critical psychology perspectives on LGBTQ+ mental health
Sexual and gender minorities continue to face inequalities, discrimination and hostility, and in some parts of the world, significant threat. While in a country like the United Kingdom, many equalities for gay, lesbian and bisexual (LGB) individuals have been won (less so for, trans individuals), homonegativity and transnegativity remain significant issues. In other parts of the world, homosexuality is still considered a pathology and a crime, an…
When it comes to HIV, that's when you find out the genuinity of that love
Despite a medical discourse of the 'normalisation' of HIV, it remains a highly stigmatising condition and makes the issue of disclosing one's HIV status particularly complex. This article reports on the experience of 18 people living with HIV in the United Kingdom of disclosing their HIV+ status in arguably their most important relationship, their intimate partnership. Five main themes arose: disclosure as the battlefield, preparing psychological…
‘What I've noticed what they need is the stats’
Counselling has been recognized as an important component of HIV and AIDS care, and an essential part of HIV testing. In South Africa, a commonly used model is for lay counsellors to be trained by non-governmental organizations and then to work alongside professionals in public health clinics. In studies of counselling in health care settings in the context of HIV, there has been a relative lack of attention to the organizational and systemic iss…
We are Not Fresh’
Women have been identified as being at greater risk than men in South Africa's growing HIV epidemic. Stigma contributes to the epidemic, as it makes HIV-positive individuals reluctant to become identified and seek appropriate care. The purpose of this study is to begin to explore how women experience and deal with AIDS stigma under conditions where they have little formal support. In-depth, narrative interviews were conducted with ten HIV-positiv…
Doing Time
In South Africa, graduating health professionals are required to do a compulsory year of community service before being able to register with their respective professional boards as independent practitioners. Community service posts for clinical psychologists were introduced in the Department of Correctional Services in 2005. The authors were among the first batch of clinical psychologists doing their community service within the Department of Co…
Communities isn't just about trees and shops”
The question of what constitutes ‘a community’ or even ‘ the community’ takes on an extra salience in a divided society such as South Africa where the entire environment remains imprinted with the legacy of enforced segregation along racial lines. Higher education institutions need to prepare emerging health and social service students for the world of practice in a context of diversity, continuing segregation and marked inequality. As one step t…
It Doesn't Matter Who or What We are, We are Still Just People’
South Africa, after decades of apartheid, continues to be a highly segregated society. Higher education institutions need to prepare students for work in such a divided society. Recent work on inter-group contact has stressed the importance of taking into account people's interpretation and meanings about contact in particular contexts, and the need for contact to involve dialogue about socio-historical situations. This article reports on a colla…
Providing Sex Education to Persons with Learning Disabilities in the Era of HIV/Aids
Research suggests that disabled people may be at increased risk for HIV infection, yet are excluded from HIV prevention campaigns. Historically people with learning disabilities have been constructed as either being asexual or sexually uninhibited, and sex education considered to be unnecessary or potentially harmful. This article reports on findings of a qualitative study exploring the challenges expressed by participants who provide sex educati…
HIV/Aids and disability organisations in South Africa
Despite the seriousness of the HIV epidemic globally, and in South Africa in particular, little is known about how HIV/AIDS affects disabled people. One important and little explored area is the role that organisations that represent disabled people or that work on behalf of disabled people, are playing in addressing the HIV/AIDS epidemic among the disabled people they represent or serve. This paper presents the findings of a nationwide survey of…
Ah, but the whiteys love to talk about themselves’
This article reports on an interdisciplinary and collaborative educational module prepared for fourth‐year Psychology and Social Work students at two higher education institutions in the Western Cape, South Africa. The aim of the module was to provide students with the opportunity to experience learning across the boundaries of institution, discipline, language, race and class, and to provide the team with data to enhance understanding of how stu…
Broadening Psychology's Contribution to Addressing Issues of HIV/Aids, Poverty and Nutrition
HIV/AIDS, more than any other public health problem, challenges dominant models of the role of psychology in health promotion and prevention. This paper focuses on poverty and resulting food insecurity as a structural risk factor for HIV infection. The paper considers the role of health psychology in global health concerns and argues that, while individual-based interventions are important, health psychology needs to shift to playing a proper rol…
Disabled persons’ knowledge of HIV prevention and access to health care prevention services in South Africa
The main research question in this article is how access to information about HIV/AIDS and level of HIV/AIDS prevention related knowledge are distributed among disabled people, and whether level of knowledge predicts access to HIV/AIDS related services. A survey was carried out among a sample of 285 disabled people from three provinces in South Africa. Analyses of the data revealed that gender and level of education, together with geographical di…
Critical Issues in Clinical and Health Psychology
This is a student-friendly, engaging textbook that covers all the main topics in health from a critical perspective. Each main topic is covered in-depth with its own chapter, and issues relating to disability as well as research methods are integrated throughout the book
Challenges faced by parents of children diagnosed with autism spectrum disorder
Few studies address the daily challenges faced by parents of children diagnosed with autism spectrum disorder. This article reports on a qualitative interview study with 20 parents exploring their experiences, challenges faced, and what has helped them to cope. A thematic analysis of the data identified five core categories: Dealing with challenging behaviour; dealing with judgements from others; lack of support; impact upon the family; coping an…
HIV issues and people with disabilities
Qualitative Research in Clinical and Health Psychology
1. Introduction: Qualitative Research in Clinical and Health Psychology Poul Rohleder and Antonia C. Lyons.- PART I: ISSUES IN QUALITATIVE RESEARCH.- 2. Epistemology and Qualitative Research Kerry Chamberlain.- 3. Ethical Issues in Qualitative Research Poul Rohleder and Charlotte Smith.- 4. Thinking about Culture and Language in Psychological Research and Practice Leslie Swartz.- 5. Ensuring Quality in Qualitative Research Gareth Treharne and Dam…
Disability, sexuality and sexual health
This chapter discusses the enduring relevance of globalisation for understanding sexuality. It explores three general conceptual issues like language, place and time that often impede understanding relationships between globalisation and sexuality. The history of colonialism is important for understanding sexuality because sexuality was often a central technique of colonial rule. Interest in the gendering of globalisation connects as well to a gr…
Taking into Account the Quality of the Relationship in HIV Disclosure
The sexual lives of people with disabilities within low- and middle-income countries
BACKGROUND: Although approximately 80% of the global population of people with disabilities reside in low- and middle-income countries (LMICs), very little is known about their sexual lives due to a lack of empirical data. We aimed to provide a scoping review of English-language research conducted on disability and sexuality in LMICs. OBJECTIVE: Our research questions concerned what topics in disability and sexuality have (and have not) been inve…
The Sexual Health Knowledge of People with Intellectual Disabilities
Experience of sexual self-esteem among men living with HIV
Much of the focus on sexual health for people living with HIV has been on promoting safe sex behaviours. However, also important for sexual health is a positive sexual self-esteem. This article reports on an interpretative phenomenological analysis of interviews with seven men about the impact that having HIV has had on their sense of sexual self. Five overarching themes were identified: the 'destruction' of a sexual self; feeling sexually hazard…
Disability and HIV in Africa
Three decades into the HIV pandemic, the issues affecting people with disabilities remain less known. Increasing attention has been given to this overlooked population when it comes to HIV prevention, treatment and care. This is related to the significant unmet sexual and reproductive healthcare needs facing people with disabilities worldwide. This article discusses the barriers to sexual health for people with disabilities in Africa and presents…
The sexual and reproductive rights and benefit derived from sexual and reproductive health services of people with physical disabilities in South Africa
There is a body of theoretical work, and some empirical research, which suggests that non-disabled people assume people with physical disabilities are not suitable romantic partners, do not have sexual drives or desires, or are not sexually active. It has also been proposed that people with physical disabilities face barriers to sexual healthcare access which are structural as well as social. The present paper explores non-disabled South Africans…
Dating persons with physical disabilities
There is good reason to believe that the attitudes of persons without disability towards dating a person with a physical disability might be unfavourable. However, in general, and in the Global South in particular, there is a dearth of research in this area. This study sought to take the first step in addressing this lack of enquiry, by surveying the attitudes of a general population sample in South Africa towards dating people with physical disa…
I think if I had turned up sporting a beard and a dress then you get in trouble’
Research into the experiences of transgender students in the United Kingdom is extremely limited, despite surveys suggesting high levels of discrimination exist. This study aimed to explore the experiences of transgender students at UK universities, focusing on challenges and support. Six participants took part in semi-structured interviews which were analysed using thematic analysis. Two themes encompassing challenges and support experienced wer…
Ameliorating transnegativity
We demonstrate that pedagogic interventions utilising mediated contact and the parasocial contact hypothesis provide an effective means of instantiating both an immediate and long-term reduction in prejudice towards transgender people. Through application of the parasocial contact hypothesis, our quasi-experiment demonstrates that exposure to the combined intervention of a panel presentation and a trans-themed film resulted in a significant reduc…
Sexuality erased, questioned, and explored
The sexuality of people with disabilities has historically been a site of oppression and discrimination. The sexuality of people with disabilities remains relatively under-researched and poorly understood. As a result, many myths and misconceptions about the sexuality of people with disabilities may prevail. This paper reports on findings from a qualitative study exploring the experiences of 13 people with physical disabilities in South Africa. A…
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