NSVRC Blogs by Dr. Erin Pritchard

Why we need to take sexual assault towards disabled men seriously

July 19, 2023 Dr. Erin Pritchard

Last October, Aubrey Taylor and his friend were at a New York deli grabbing something to eat, when a woman came over and began to grope him. Most victims of sexual assault don’t report their experience for of a number of reasons Aubrey recorded the incident on his cell phone and reported it to the […]

The Intersection of Disability and Gender with Online Harassment

April 6, 2022 Dr. Erin Pritchard

I am a lecturer in Disability studies. I am also a woman with dwarfism, who since childhood has been called ‘midget’ by strangers who find my dwarfism funny and unacceptable within society. Here, I explore the online harassment I received as a disabled, female academic after successfully campaigning to remove the word midget from a […]

Whispers on Social Media: Online Sexual Harassment in Spaces for People with Dwarfism

December 2, 2021 Dr. Erin Pritchard

Lockdown, as a result of the global pandemic, has not changed much for me, except to make me reflect on my own behaviours. Non-disabled people protesting about lockdown restrictions, do not know how privileged they are. After lockdown they can go back to normal, but this is my normal. For a long time I have […]