Pratisandhi

Tarini Agarwal

Tarini is a nineteen-year-old student of History at Lady Shri Ram College for Women with a passion for history and a penchant for writing about issues of contemporary relevance.

Re-imaging Disabled Desires: The Case of Isaac from Sex Education

The words disability and desire are hardly ever used in the same sentence. Convention relegates disability to the likelihood of asexuality which has been created and furthered by the epitomisation of able-bodied standards of beauty in popular media and culture. Issac Godwins’s portrayal on the British show Sex Education thus, appears almost revolutionary for its nuance. The character, in its essence, pushes us to re-conceptualize our understanding of disabled desire.