Moja sprawa: o małżeństwie i prawach seksualnych osób z niepełnosprawnością intelektualną na scenie i na ekranie
My Business: Marriage and Sexual Rights of People With an Intellectual Disability on the Stage and Screen

Summary/Abstract: Taking Len Collin’s film Sanctuary and its impact on Irish society as a starting point, Ojrzyńska examines how various contemporary Polish cultural texts (the soap opera Klan [Clan], the performance Moja sprawa [My Business] by the theatre BRO, and Klauni [Clowns] by Teatr 21) address marriage and sexual rights of people with an intellectual disability. Using Jacques Rancière’s concepts of representational and aesthetic regimes of the arts and the tenets of contemporary critical disability studies, Ojrzyńska demonstrates that these works serve as a form of protest against the ableist status quo. The article examines the significance and effectiveness of such forms of protest and empowerment through art devised by people with an intellectual disability.

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