Consent. Identity. Pleasure. Blind people’s knowledge.
Find information for yourself, a young person, your family, or your work. Browse by topic below. Each listing describes its audience, format, and available access information. Public educational resources do not require BSAN membership.
External resources are shared for information. Listing does not mean BSAN endorses all content or certifies accessibility. Community reviews reflect contributors’ experiences; BSAN editorial reviews are labeled separately.
Bodies and pleasure
Explore Adult Pleasure and Intimacy for adult questions, or bodies and sexual health for young people. For nonvisual teaching, start with blindness and sexuality resources.
Dating and relationships
Start with setting boundaries, a young disabled writer’s perspective on dating, or Caitlin Hernandez’s personal writing about kissing. Each person’s preferences and experiences differ.
Identity and belonging
Explore blind positivity, LGBTQ+ resources, and disability justice. Find ways to connect with BSAN.
Accessible healthcare
Start with Reproductive Health and Rights and consent and bodily autonomy. Ask for information in the format you use, explanations before touch, and time to ask questions. Suggest an accessible healthcare resource.
How to read these listings
Resource summaries describe the publisher’s offering. BSAN notes and editorial reviews provide our analysis. Community reviews describe an individual’s experience. These are different kinds of information.
Check who a resource is for, what it offers, its format and cost, and what access features have actually been confirmed. “Not tested” means we do not know. A transcript is not proof that a video describes everything important.
Community ratings: No community ratings have been published yet. The optional six-point rating in the review form runs from 1 (not useful) to 6 (very useful). Future ratings will include numbers and words alongside any dot symbols. Share an experience without providing intimate details.
Blind Community: connection and participation · Read the BSAN blog · Events and workshops
Consent and bodily autonomy
Consent Academy: resources and learning
For: Adults, educators, and community or organizational leaders.
Resources on consent, responding to harm, accountability, and consent culture, alongside public workshops and self-paced courses.
Format and access: Free public resources; courses and services may have fees. Publisher overview checked; individual courses and nonvisual access have not been assessed.
Source checked October 5, 2026. Share a review, question, or access experience.
Consent belongs in everyday assistance, education, health care, relationships, and sexual experiences. Needing support does not remove your right to choices, privacy, or boundaries.
Planned Parenthood: All About Consent
Teens · Written information and video
Learn what sexual consent means, why asking matters, and how to make sure everyone wants the same thing.
Share a community review or access experience.
Access note: Written information and video; nonvisual completeness of the video has not been tested by BSAN.
love is respect: Setting boundaries
Ages 14 to 24 · Written guidance
Explore emotional, physical, and digital boundaries and find relationship support.
The site’s quick-exit button does not erase browsing history.
Share a community review or access experience.
Access note: Written guidance; screen-reader and Braille-display use have not been independently tested by BSAN.
RAINN: Consent 101
Free written guide
Examples of ongoing consent, recognizing pressure, changing your mind, and finding support after an unwanted experience.
Blindness note: Some examples refer to facial expressions or body language. Use clear words or another communication method everyone can access.
Share a community review or access experience.
Access note: Written guide; assistive-technology use has not been independently tested by BSAN.
Rooted in Rights: Consent and Kids with Disabilities
Disability perspective · Free video, written guide, and transcript
Daisy Wislar and her mother discuss boundaries during physical assistance, therapy, and everyday interactions. Includes practical ideas for supporting disabled children’s bodily autonomy.
Includes discussion of unwanted touch and sexual abuse.
Share a community review or access experience.
Access note: A transcript is provided; BSAN has not completed a full nonvisual review of the video.
Youth resources
AMAZE: videos and conversation guides
For: Young people with parents, caregivers, or educators.
Videos and discussion prompts about bodies, puberty, consent, relationships, gender, and sexual orientation. Select individual videos for the learner’s age and questions.
Format and access: Free videos and parent information. Some personalized or download features request registration or email. Audio description and nonvisual completeness vary or are unconfirmed; preview each video before using it.
Source checked October 5, 2026. Share a review, question, or access experience.
Information about bodies, puberty, friendship, dating, and boundaries. Audience labels distinguish material for young people from guidance for the adults supporting them.
Planned Parenthood: For Teens
Teens · Articles and videos
Explore puberty, bodies, relationships, contraception, STIs, gender, and sexual orientation.
Share a community review or access experience.
Access note: Articles and videos; accessibility varies by item and has not been independently tested by BSAN.
Sex, Etc.: Dating with a disability or chronic illness
Youth perspective · Written article
A young disabled writer discusses energy, support, dating, and choosing what to share about a disability.
Share a community review or access experience.
Access note: Written article; assistive-technology use has not been independently tested by BSAN.
Younger children and shared reading
C Is for Consent: National Braille Press edition
Young children · Board book with Braille addendum · Paid
Eleanor Morrison introduces choices about hugs, kisses, and personal boundaries. For shared reading with young children.
National Braille Press lists the book at $15. Check the product page for current price and availability.
Share a community review or access experience.
Access note: The publisher describes a Braille addendum; BSAN has not completed a hands-on review.
Blindness and sexuality
Nonvisual learning, puberty, communication, and sexuality education that takes blind people’s experience seriously.
Perkins: Puberty and the teen years with CVI
CVI-specific · Free written guide
Ideas for supporting teens with cerebral/cortical visual impairment through puberty, privacy, self-care, relationships, and accessible sexuality education.
Share a community review or access experience.
Access note: Written guidance; individual learning and format needs vary.
Perkins: Teaching sexuality to blind students
Blindness-specific · Free video and full written transcript
Jeff Migliozzi explains how parents and educators can make body concepts, puberty, and social information explicit instead of relying on visual observation. About 30 minutes.
The transcript includes descriptions of the video’s visuals.
Share a community review or access experience.
BSAN note: Needing assistance does not diminish bodily autonomy. When support involves touch, permission, privacy, and meaningful choices matter. This includes being able to pause, decline, or ask for a different approach.
Blind perspectives in audio
Hands On Safety: Do You Consent?
Blind-focused · Free audio with written show notes
Laura Millar and Bobbi Pompey discuss consent and boundaries in relationships and everyday life. Includes discussion of sexual abuse and harassment.
No full transcript was found on the episode page.
For first-person writing about intimacy, visit Blind Voices. For tactile learning and classroom practice, read BSAN’s resource review.
Disability and access
Sins Invalid: 10 Principles of Disability Justice
For: Community members, advocates, educators, and providers.
A framework for leadership by those most affected, interdependence, collective access, and recognizing disabled people as whole people.
Format and access: Free written original and plain-language versions; the publisher links PDF and ASL versions. Assistive-technology compatibility has not been independently tested.
Source checked October 5, 2026. Share a review, question, or access experience.
Disability-wide perspectives can add to blind-specific knowledge. Each resource should make clear whose experiences it addresses.
- Consent and Kids with Disabilities: consent during assistance, therapy, and daily life, for parents and educators.
- Dating with a disability or chronic illness: a youth perspective on dating, energy, support, and disclosure.
- Reproductive health and rights: BSAN’s page on bodily autonomy, care, and reproductive choices.
Suggest disability justice, collective access, or sexual ableism resources.
Blind positivity
Blind people are knowledgeable, capable, and entitled to sexuality, pleasure, relationships, and self-determination. Blind positivity includes high expectations, chosen support, interdependence, and challenging internalized ableism.
- Blind-positive and sex-positive education: Laura Millar explains these principles in BSAN’s published teaching review.
- Blind Voices: first-person writing and blind-authored analysis.
- BSAN’s history: people, experiences, and ideas behind the network.
Sins Invalid’s principles also offer disability justice perspectives on wholeness, interdependence, and collective access.
This collection is growing. Suggest a blind-created resource about identity, agency, belonging, or everyday life.
LGBTQ+ resources
The Trevor Project: LGBTQ+ Resource Center
For: LGBTQ+ young people and people supporting them.
Written resources about gender identity, sexual orientation, relationships, and supporting LGBTQ+ young people. This is a general LGBTQ+ collection, not blind-specific guidance.
Format and access: Free written resources. Screen-reader compatibility has not been independently tested.
Source checked October 5, 2026. Share a review, question, or access experience.
Explore sexual orientation, gender, identity, relationships, and belonging. Blind LGBTQ+ people belong throughout this collection.
Scarleteen: Sexuality and relationships
Young people · Written articles and guides
Inclusive information about sexuality, identity, and relationships, with room for questions, uncertainty, and choosing whether to be sexual.
Share a community review or access experience.
Access note: Written articles and guides; individual pages have not been independently tested by BSAN.
Planned Parenthood’s teen information also covers gender and sexual orientation. These are general sexuality resources; they are not presented as blind-specific or blind-authored.
Suggest blind LGBTQ+ writing, identity resources, or community information.
Blind Voices and community writing
Writing by blind people deserves a clear place of its own. Author names and publication links distinguish lived experience, independent opinion, and professional guidance.
Top Ten Things Sighted People Never Tell Us About Kissing
Blind perspective · Free written article
Blind writer Caitlin Hernandez shares personal experiences of kissing, communication, and details often left out of visual explanations. Published as a guest post on Catch These Words. Individual preferences differ.
Share a community review or access experience.
Access note: Written article; screen-reader and Braille-display use have not been independently tested by BSAN.
Building Better Sex Education for Blind Students
By Laura Millar. BSAN’s independent editorial review of APH’s sex-education chapter, with teaching recommendations on consent, accuracy, inclusion, and student choice.
This is a critical review, not a recommendation of the guidebook.
Read the BSAN blog or propose a guest article or recommend an existing piece of blind-authored writing. You do not need a professional title to contribute. Sharing an idea does not give automatic permission to publish your story.
Parents, teachers, educators, and providers
Visit Kids and Families for shared activities, Braille reading, and video guidance. Blind learners’ questions, preferences, and autonomy come first.
Start with consent and bodily autonomy, youth resources, nonvisual sexuality teaching, and puberty with CVI. Resource audiences are stated individually; youth learning and professional training serve different needs.
For adult learning, visit Adult Pleasure and Intimacy. For workshops, visit Events and Workshops.
Resource reviews
Read the APH chapter resource note and the full BSAN review and teaching recommendations. These explain contributions, concerns, and alternatives.
Help the collection grow
Suggest books, blogs, podcasts, videos, tactile materials, accessible tools, or recorded conversations. A resource can be relevant without meeting every reader’s needs. Share what you found useful, any concerns, and the formats available.
Write a community review or report an access barrier. Reviews are moderated before publication.
Community reviews and experiences
What was useful? What could be better? Share your experience of a resource, including access, relevance, consent, or how blind people are represented. You do not need to share intimate details.
Reviews go to BSAN for moderation. Your email stays private. Choose below whether BSAN may publish your comments. Submitting does not subscribe you to updates or publish your review automatically. Community opinions are not BSAN endorsements.
No community reviews have been published in this section yet.
Thank you for sharing your experience.
Suggest a resource or share information
Help this collection grow with accessible resources, community information, research, tools, or recorded webinars. Use the event submission form for an upcoming live event.
Suggestions are reviewed before publication. Required fields are marked. Say “not yet confirmed” when access or cost details are unknown. Your name and reply email are for BSAN’s review and will not appear in the public listing.
Thank you. Your suggestion has been sent for review.
Prefer email? Email BSAN a resource suggestion. Please include its title, link, description, audience, access details, and cost.