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Dreaming of home care futures
Without a public home-care system, disabled people are forced to choose between living in a long-term care home, medical assistance in dying, and hiring an underpaid migrant home-care worker.
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Disability and the prison system
It’s not a coincidence that so many prisoners are disabled – the system was designed that way.
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“They don’t know how to fight for this”
In year four of the COVID-19 pandemic, will unions fight for workers’ right not to get sick on the job?
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Black radicalism has always included disability justice
In her new book “Black Disability Politics,” Sami Schalk highlights the Black disability justice activism overlooked by mainstream disability rights movements and writing.
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“Health is capitalism’s vulnerability”
An interview with Beatrice Adler-Bolton on her new book “Health Communism: A Surplus Manifesto”
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Class inaction
Survivors are speaking up about the abuse they endured in Canada’s government-run institutions for disabled people. Class-action lawsuits promise them justice – but can they deliver?
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Exiting the revolving door
Sheltered workshops for disabled people allow employers to evade labour standards and pay workers below minimum wage, all under the guise of never-ending “training programs.”
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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.
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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.
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“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.
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“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.
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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.
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Care without institutions
Four case studies of projects that are meeting disabled people’s needs through community care.
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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.
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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
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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?
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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.
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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?