Irving Kenneth Zola was a mentor of mine in the Sociology department at Brandeis even though I never took a class with him. He died while I was in my second year of graduate studies there, and while I never took a class with him I did have two weeks of proseminar with him and I was moved by several things he taught us.

One piece of writing he shared had to do with sex and disability. It was an intensely personal piece narrating a sexual encounter at the same time as giving the history of a relationship. I was thrilled to be reminded of it by your question, TracyA, so I googled one the one complete phrase I remembered from it -- "I fairly shout I love you" -- along with his name, and was even more thrilled when it turned up at the top of my google search. Here is the link to the piece, called "Sing a Song in Silence":

http://irvingzola.com/song.htm

The other writings on that web site are well worth checking out. Zola was a pioneer in disability studies. Oh, and he was also the husband of Judy Norsigian, one of the founders of the Boston Women's Health Book Collective, which publishes the amazing Our Bodies Ourselves. In fact it was Judy Norsigian who put the irvingzola.com web site together so that some of Zola's previously unpublished work would be accessible.

...because public space really matters!

Elizabeth