Sexuality for all abilities | Parvathy Gopakumar | TEDxMACE 

Parvathy's is a hard-hitting, yet absolutely necessary talk at the intersection of sexuality and disability. From chapters of her life, she sails into how difficult it gets for disabled persons to fall in love, or explore their sexuality. Disabled people have a right to sexual experience, but more importantly, to be respected, and seen for the individuals that they are, and not limited to their disabilities. A lawyer in the making, from National Law School of India University, Parvathy Gopakumar drapes her unapologetic, prudent persona with the finesse of a narrator articulating immersive stories from a book you can't put down. The becoming of the person she is, from the day she began to be showered with sympathetic glances, and then coming to terms with her body image, to the point where she paints her prosthetic nails and stashes chocolates in her prosthetic arm, she's a page-turner of a human book. This talk was given at a TEDx event using the TED conference format but independently organized by a local community. Learn more at www.ted.com/tedx