Genius Teatime with Rachel Ungerer
Channel: Opulent Mobility
Date: 2023-03-20

Rachel Ungerer:
Celebrating Disabled Sexuality through BDSM

A huge portion of the BDSM community is disabled and/or neurodivergent. Kink is made for disabled people, because it allows us to creatively explore our own pleasure, and BDSM naturally includes pre-negotiation to discuss desires and consent.

Rachel Ungerer is a Bay Area queer disabled artist. She earned a B.A. in Fine Arts from the University of California, Los Angeles with a focus on painting.  Her work has been shown in Los Angeles, Louisville KY, San Francisco, Mill Valley, Palo Alto, and Oakland. After developing a constant chronic pain condition that limits the use of both hands, Ungerer re-trained herself to paint by working with her disabled body.  She exaggerates human form and uses gestural brush strokes to capture fleeting feelings. By publicly identifying as someone with an invisible disability, Ungerer hopes to promote greater awareness and confront discriminatory social norms.

Her new paintings explore the intersection queerness and disability through sexuality. In the quiet intimate moments that we create for ourselves we are without the stigmas and expectations that call us abnormal.  We are beautiful and sensual as we are, in our unedited queer and disabled forms, accessibility needs and all.

Genius Teatime was conceived by Pamela Samuelson of Embodywork LA and A. Laura Brody of Opulent Mobility. We ask folks what they can give a talk on for 40 minutes without prep or notes, and they deliver talks full of wonderful information and community spirit! This talk benefited Diversability, our speaker, and the Opulent Mobility accessibility fund. 

Please join us for future Genius Teatime sessions each Saturday at 3:30-4:30 PM PST (teatime!) via Zoom on https://www.opulentmobility (dot) com/genius-teatime.html