Alex Cowan's guest appearances

Alex Cowan

Strong Voices - overcoming speaking challenges

The Pleasure Podcast

Gemma Cairney

Emma Thompson

Mike Wilson

Sara Pascoe

Anna Jordan

Flo Perry

Sarah Perry

Neil Patterson

Jen Brister

Paapa Essiedu

Candice Brathwaite

Kate Lister

Chad Scott

Susan Wokoma

Alix Fox

OwlTail

Today we welcome Alex Cowan, a leading disability activist, performer and writer challenging the sexual erasure of differently abled people around the world. Alex has been a real pioneer, In 2014 she appeared in Alternative Miss World - their first contestant in a wheelchair, and appeared on Channel 4 discussing her relationship with her husband. She was the first disabled person to attend the world-renowned European Society of Sexual Medicine Summer school and has worked with Alistair Morrison, photographer to Hollywood royalty, reinterpreting the iconic Christine Keeler photos replacing the Arne Jacobsen chair with her wheelchair. Alex developed Multiple Sclerosis in her late teens and documents her journey (with the man that eventually became her boyfriend and now husband) as the effects of illness changed and challenged her body, her self-view and her relationships. Alex describes what that has meant for her ability to physically navigate sex when disability meets ageing. We talk about the frustration of friends presuming she’s celibate as if disability changed who she was as a person and shares how a really low point triggered the need to shock herself out of her despair - and so she jumped out of a plane! We discuss the importance of sex workers in helping provide intimacy and physical contact when the dating scene can be significantly more challenging to negotiate, let alone finding suitable accessible spaces for disabled people to meet.Read her writing for Good Housekeeping and see more of those Alistair Morrison photographs here: https://100stories.leonardcheshire.org/changing-perceptions/Thank you to Alex for this inspiring conversation that reminds us again to see the person rather than the disability and providing practical tips on how to keep a sexual relationship going with a differently abled body.Just a little note that Naomi had to pop out for the last part of the interview, in case you’re wondering why she goes quiet later on!Alex kindly supplied the following list of super-helpful books and links (on GoogleDrive for convenience!):https://tinyurl.com/yaye8xq5We would love to continue the conversation and hear from you: email us at hello@thepleasurepodcast.com or tweet us @ThePleasurePod.Please do rate, review, and share the podcast, it helps other people find us!*Social Media:Naomi Sheldon: @NaomiSheldon1Anand Patel: @therealdranandFollow us at @ThePleasurePod and visit us at www.thepleasurepodcast.com Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Today we welcome Alex Cowan, a leading disability activist, performer and writer challenging the sexual erasure of differently abled people around the world. Alex has been a real pioneer, In 2014 she appeared in Alternative Miss World - their first contestant in a wheelchair, and appeared on Channel 4 discussing her relationship with her husband. She was the first disabled person to attend the world-renowned European Society of Sexual Medicine Summer school and has worked with Alistair Morrison, photographer to Hollywood royalty, reinterpreting the iconic Christine Keeler photos replacing the Arne Jacobsen chair with her wheelchair. Alex developed Multiple Sclerosis in her late teens and documents her journey (with the man that eventually became her boyfriend and now husband) as the effects of illness changed and challenged her body, her self-view and her relationships. Alex describes what that has meant for her ability to physically navigate sex when disability meets ageing. We talk about the frustration of friends presuming she’s celibate as if disability changed who she was as a person and shares how a really low point triggered the need to shock herself out of her despair - and so she jumped out of a plane! We discuss the importance of sex workers in helping provide intimacy and physical contact when the dating scene can be significantly more challenging to negotiate, let alone finding suitable accessible spaces for disabled people to meet.Read her writing for <a href="https://www.pressreader.com/uk/good-housekeeping-uk/20180501/281870118985736" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" target="_blank">Good Housekeeping</a> and see more of those Alistair Morrison photographs here: <a href="https://100stories.leonardcheshire.org/changing-perceptions/" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" target="_blank">https://100stories.leonardcheshire.org/changing-perceptions/</a>Thank you to Alex for this inspiring conversation that reminds us again to see the person rather than the disability and providing practical tips on how to keep a sexual relationship going with a differently abled body.Just a little note that Naomi had to pop out for the last part of the interview, in case you’re wondering why she goes quiet later on!Alex kindly supplied the following list of super-helpful books and links (on GoogleDrive for convenience!):<a href="https://tinyurl.com/yaye8xq5" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" target="_blank">https://tinyurl.com/yaye8xq5</a>We would love to continue the conversation and hear from you: email us at <a href="mailto:hello@thepleasurepodcast.com" rel="noopener noreferrer">hello@thepleasurepodcast.com</a> or tweet us <a href="https://twitter.com/ThePleasurePod" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" target="_blank">@ThePleasurePod</a>.Please do rate, review, and share the podcast, it helps other people find us!*Social Media:Naomi Sheldon: <a href="https://twitter.com/NaomiSheldon1?ref_src=twsrc%5Egoogle%7Ctwcamp%5Eserp%7Ctwgr%5Eauthor" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" target="_blank">@NaomiSheldon1</a>Anand Patel: <a href="https://twitter.com/therealdranand?lang=en" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" target="_blank">@therealdranand</a>Follow us at <a href="https://twitter.com/ThePleasurePod" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" target="_blank">@ThePleasurePod</a> and visit us at <a href="http://www.thepleasurepodcast.com/" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" target="_blank">www.thepleasurepodcast.com</a> Hosted on Acast. See <a href="https://acast.com/privacy" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" target="_blank">acast.com/privacy</a> for more information.

S3, Ep 9 Alex Cowan: Sex and Skydiving - Looking Beyond Disability

Kate Salkeld

"Life, love and relationships” -  Part 2 with Alex Cowan and Kate Salkeld.Episode 38 digs deeper and explores the road to their relationship, the advantages and disadvantages of two people living together with the same speaking challenge and a peek into the future.Please sit back and enjoy this honest, heartfelt and heartwarming story.Search and subscribe to “Strong Voices - overcoming speaking challenges” in Apple or Google podcasts, your favourite podcasting app, or click onto the link below.https://soundcloud.com/user-709642316Have a great day Strong Voices production team.svpodcast@yahoo.com——Strong Voices - overcoming speaking challenges podcast provides a platform for those with speaking challenges to tell their stories. Topics discussed may be highly personal in nature and may lead to an expression of genuinely held opinions. The opinions expressed in this podcast are not necessarily the opinions of the Strong Voices production team and opinions are solely of the interviewee. Opinions expressed by interviewees are or have been expressed based on specific facts, under certain conditions, and subject to certain assumptions, based on facts/assumptions known at the time.This podcast is available for private, non-commercial use only. You may not edit, modify, or redistribute this podcast.The information provided on this podcast is general in nature, intended for  entertainment purposes only, is not intended to be relied upon nor to be a substitute for, specific professional speech therapy or speaking coaching advice. —-

"Life, love and relationships” - Part 2 with Alex Cowan and Kate Salkeld. Episode 38 digs deeper and explores the road to their relationship, the advantages and disadvantages of two people living together with the same speaking challenge and a peek into the future. Please sit back and enjoy this honest, heartfelt and heartwarming story. Search and subscribe to “Strong Voices - overcoming speaking challenges” in Apple or Google podcasts, your favourite podcasting app, or click onto the link below. <a href="https://soundcloud.com/user-709642316" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://soundcloud.com/user-709642316</a> Have a great day Strong Voices production team. svpodcast@yahoo.com —— Strong Voices - overcoming speaking challenges podcast provides a platform for those with speaking challenges to tell their stories. Topics discussed may be highly personal in nature and may lead to an expression of genuinely held opinions. The opinions expressed in this podcast are not necessarily the opinions of the Strong Voices production team and opinions are solely of the interviewee. Opinions expressed by interviewees are or have been expressed based on specific facts, under certain conditions, and subject to certain assumptions, based on facts/assumptions known at the time. This podcast is available for private, non-commercial use only. You may not edit, modify, or redistribute this podcast. The information provided on this podcast is general in nature, intended for entertainment purposes only, is not intended to be relied upon nor to be a substitute for, specific professional speech therapy or speaking coaching advice. —-

Episode 38 - Life, love and relationships -  Part 2 with Alex Cowan and Kate Salkeld.