Tag: Accessibility

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    Kids review “We Move Together”

    by Jayde Jarvis   Sep 7, 2022   6 min read

    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.

  • Three black-and-white illustrations, done in pen and ink, of the three roundtable participants. Each participant is shown from the shoulders up and is slightly smiling at the camera.
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    Roundtable on long COVID in Canada

    by Yasmine Simone Gray   Sep 7, 2022   14 min read

    Three people living with long COVID discuss government responses to the pandemic, what doctors need to know, and how people can support long haulers.

  • Two brown hands draw on a zine with a yellow pencil on a busy desk that is strewn with craft materials. Handwritten text on yellow blocks in the centre spread of the zine says:
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    “There are disabled people in the future”

    by Rachel Jobson   Sep 7, 2022   11 min read

    An interview with Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha about “crip doulaing,” the future of the disability justice movement, and understanding access and care as joyful.

  • A digital illustration showing assistive devices – a wheelchair, a cane, and a blood glucose monitor – floating against a light blue background.
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    Care without institutions

    by seeley quest and Briarpatch Staff   Sep 7, 2022   7 min read

    Four case studies of projects that are meeting disabled people’s needs through community care.

  • The cover of Briarpatch's Disability Justice Issue on a light blue background. On the cover, someone with light brown skin, who is wearing a mask and a black hoodie, is seated and looks ahead into the distance. On their right arm, just above the elbow, is a tourniquet. A person with light brown skin, curly brown hair, and a mask stands over them, inserting a needle into their arm.
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    Disabled leadership and wisdom

    by The Disability Justice Issue editorial collective   Sep 7, 2022   7 min read

    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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