By blind people, for blind people
Our bodies.
Our choices.
Our community.
Access to information. Access to pleasure. Access to community.
Blind people belong at the center of conversations about our sexuality, relationships, and consent. Together, we can shape what access looks like.
From the BSAN blog
Blind perspectives on sexuality, relationships, access, and community.
Building Better Sex Education for Blind Students: A Review of APH’s Guidebook
BSAN’s independent editorial review recognizes the chapter’s contributions, explains specific concerns, and offers practical teaching alternatives.
Help shape what comes next
Your experience belongs here.
A useful resource. A workshop that opened a conversation. A person whose work matters. You do not need a professional title or all the answers to contribute.
Resources and access materials
Books, podcasts, videos, Braille materials, tactile models, and tools that help us learn and make choices.
Workshops and conversations
Recommend an event, share a workshop, or suggest a question you want people to explore together.
People and professionals
Help connect blind educators, practitioners, researchers, writers, organizers, and peers.
Stories and photographs
Offer a memory, a photograph, or a correction. Help give the people who built this work their place in the story.
Collaboration
Bring an idea for accessible education, research, professional learning, or community partnership.
Our purpose and values
Blind leadership, autonomy, consent, sexual positivity, disability justice, and room for joy.
Start with our reviewed youth resources and general adult resources. Event and professional listings are still in development.
A history made together
From living rooms to a wider network.
BSAN grew through LightHouse workshops, university collaborations, tactile anatomy projects, friendships, and conversations that reached across borders during the pandemic.
Our fuller history names the people, questions, and shared work that brought us here.
This history is incomplete and growing.
Help us get it right. Send changes, edits, corrections, or additions to info@sexualityaccessnetwork.org.
Access begins with how we learn
Knowledge you can put your hands on.
Tactile anatomy models are one part of BSAN’s history of blind people helping create the tools and education we need.
Access includes the format, the questions being asked, and who gets to make decisions.
Explore access materials · Reproductive Health and Rights · Adult Pleasure and Intimacy, ages 18 and older
Building the next chapter
BSAN is expanding its network, growing accessible resources, building organizational capacity, and strengthening ways for blind people and community partners to connect, contribute, learn, and find support. See what BSAN is building now and where you can find us.
Need immediate support?
In the United States, call 911 for immediate emergency assistance. For suicide or emotional crisis support, call or text 988.
Find emergency and crisis support options. BSAN is not an emergency response service.
A question, an idea, a connection.
Start with a note to info@sexualityaccessnetwork.org, or use the contact form. If you encounter an access barrier, tell us what happened and what works better for you.
For Young People
Find information about bodies, puberty, consent, relationships, sexuality, and getting support. No BSAN signup or age confirmation is required to read these resources. Explore For Young People.