Laura Millar ConsultingWriting on consent culture, bodily autonomy, boundaries, and the freedom to make choices.
Netflix’s Love Is Blind asks whether love can survive the reveal. As a blind sexologist, my question starts earlier: how do I know someone is interested if I cannot see them looking at me from across the room? Let’s talk about flirting, sexual ableism, consent, and what “blind” is really doing in that title.
Blind people are grabbed, steered, and redirected by strangers every single day, without consent. A blind public health professional explains why uninvited touch is a consent violation, what it actually does to us, and the one simple thing that helps: ask before you act.
Reflecting on disability justice, reproductive autonomy, and the work to combat sexual ableism in our society.
The harm does not end when the driver leaves. This three-part series names rideshare discrimination against blind service dog handlers as ableism, a pattern of consent violations, and a public health issue. It connects lived experience, survey data, and public health analysis to show how repeated service denials affect safety, autonomy, dignity, health, and full participation in everyday life.
Part 3 of a three-part series on rideshare discrimination, ableism, consent, and public health.
Part 2 of a three-part series on rideshare discrimination, ableism, consent, and public health.
Part 1 of a three-part series on rideshare discrimination, ableism, consent, and public health.
This post features a short clip from my time as a 2025 Carrie Buck Fellow at Brandeis University, through the Carrie Buck Fellowship at the Lurie Institute for Disability Policy. The clip comes from a live conversation with Rebecca Cokley, where I am asked a deceptively simple question: Why is Consent so Radical? What follows […]
This article was written for Dr. Adam Graves’s class at San Francisco State University’s Program in Visual Impairments, in preparation for a panel discussion on how to incorporate sexual health education, bodily autonomy, and consent into the Expanded Core Curriculum. Introduction: The Conversation We’re Not Having When I was first diagnosed with Retinitis Pigmentosa and […]