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• The pressure to be cured –Both professional and popular psychology are focused on “curing” individuals of distress. But without looking at a person’s social and political context, the pursuit of a cure can do more harm than good.
• Migration has always been a disability justice issue –An interview with Ameil Joseph about the history and present of Canada’s discriminatory treatment of disabled migrants
• Walking with my mother –In 2017, my mother was diagnosed with Alzheimer’s. The city she once navigated with ease became dangerous and confusing, and I learned that it was worsening her symptoms. As a daughter and an urban planner, I wondered: what would a city built for disabled people’s safety and ease look like?
• What we need to be well –There’s a big overlap between communities of disabled people and illicit drug users. A safe supply of drugs should be considered a fundamental part of disability justice.
• Terry Fox, the Freedom Convoy, and disability politics –Terry Fox is the most famous disabled person in Canadian history, a figure who “united the country” during his cross-country marathon. Now, Fox’s iconography is being used to support the Freedom Convoy’s anti-vaccine, anti-mask agenda. What kind of unity does Fox really represent?
• Disability and war –Across the world, people are disabled in vast numbers by war, occupation, and imperial violence. How can disability justice confront the U.S. and Canadian war machines?
• What is disability justice? –Members of the Disability Justice Network of Ontario’s Youth Action Council discuss the present and future of the disability justice movement.
• Disabled leadership and wisdom –When we say we want disability justice, we don’t just mean wheelchair-accessible buildings and sign-language interpretation. We mean an end to the systems and structures that disable and debilitate us and a future where there is enough care, community, and support for everyone to thrive. 
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• Jarvis, Jayde –Jayde Jarvis is a dedicated educator who works across communities to help support children and their families with equity and access. She is currently completing her master of education in leadership and policy at the University of Toronto’s Ontario Institute for Studies in Education.
• Hladík, Bára –Bára Hladík is a Czech-Canadian writer, editor and artist. Her work can be found in EVENT Magazine, This Magazine, Hamilton Arts & Letters, and elsewhere. Her first book New Infinity was published by Metatron Press (2022). Photo by Colene AuCoin.
• Gray, Yasmine Simone –Yasmine Simone Gray is a disabled writer, artist, educator, and master’s student based in Toronto, Ontario. Find her on Twitter at @_yasminesimone.
• Jobson, Rachel –Rachel Jobson is a queer, disabled, neurodivergent student currently completing her PhD in sociology at Carleton University, where she is researching the socio-legal construction of the nuclear family as the only sanctioned site of care outside of paid care work and institutionalization. She is an active member of the Disability…
• Levack, Vicky –Vicky Levack is a Halifax-based disability and housing activist and spokesperson for the Disability Rights Coalition. She is currently institutionalized in a long-term care facility. In 2021, after years of advocacy, Levack won the right to live independently and receive at-home care from a support worker. Her release is pending.
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• quest, seeley –seeley quest is a trans disabled environmentalist living in Montreal since 2017. Working in literary and body-based composition, education and curation, sie was active with Sins Invalid from 2007 to 2015 and now gets emails at questletters.substack.com.
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• Joseph, Ameil –Ameil Joseph is an associate professor in the school of social work at McMaster University, where he currently holds a professorship in equity, identity, and transformation from the faculty of social sciences.