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- September/October 2022 –Our special 56-page Disability Justice issue features writing and art from disability justice activists across Canada. Inside, you'll find an article about drug use and the criminalization of disabled life, an interview about war and debility, a roundtable on long COVID, food reviews from inside institutions, a discussion about disabled…
- Kids review “We Move Together” –Five kids, from ages 6 to 13, review “We Move Together”, a children’s book about disabled people navigating their neighbourhoods and making friends along the way.
- The ghostwriter –A short story about a mysterious ailment
- Roundtable on long COVID in Canada –Three people living with long COVID discuss government responses to the pandemic, what doctors need to know, and how people can support long haulers.
- “There are disabled people in the future” –An interview with Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha about “crip doulaing,” the future of the disability justice movement, and understanding access and care as joyful.
- “We are fed the same way caged animals are” –To understand what life is like along the “continuum of confinement,” three people living in prisons and long-term care homes share the food they have eaten and eat every day.
- Fighting for the right to fuck –For more than a century, eugenicists have tried to eliminate disabled people through sexual sterilization. Today, disabled people’s sex lives are still surveilled, suppressed, and punished in institutions.
- Care without institutions –Four case studies of projects that are meeting disabled people’s needs through community care.
- 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.
