Individuals with intellectual disability are often left out of and overlooked in discussions on sexual health and sexuality. Given this, we undertook a participatory theatre research project to better respond to the needs of the individuals with intellectual and developmental disability regarding their sexual agency and sexual citizenship. The project, entitled Romance, Relationships, and Rights arose when the executive director of a community living agency approached researchers at the University of British Columbia’s Canadian Institute for Inclusion and Citizenship to learn about how they, as an agency, could better support their community. To disrupt sexual ableism and traditional theatre hierarchies, we collaboratively turned to participatory and disability theatre with the aim to advance and promote the sexual citizenship of individuals with intellectual and developmental disability, who refer to themselves as self-advocates - those who speak and act with agency. The challenges of equitable co-creation arose throughout the theatre process; the themes of deconstruction/co-construction and uncertainty and liminality reveal the iterative process of centering self-advocate voices.

在有关性健康和性行为的讨论中，智障人士经常被排除在外或被忽视。鉴于此，我们开展了一个参与式戏剧研究项目，以更好地满足智力和发育障碍人士在性机构和性公民方面的需求。当一个社区生活机构的执行董事与不列颠哥伦比亚大学加拿大包容和公民研究所的研究人员接触，了解他们作为一个机构如何更好地支持他们的社区时，这个名为浪漫、关系和权利的项目就出现了。为了破坏性能力主义和传统的戏剧等级制度，我们合作转向参与性和残疾剧院，旨在促进和促进智力和发育障碍人士的性公民身份，他们自称为自我倡导者 - 那些说话和行动的人。公平共同创作的挑战在整个戏剧过程中都出现了；解构/共建和不确定性和限制性的主题揭示了以自我倡导者声音为中心的迭代过程。