Social Welfare
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From  Can People Be Addicted to TechnologyFrom: About Face |
The readings in the second section of the book discuss other forms of addictions that are not narcotics based. These include sex, video games, gambling and social media. The readings in this … | Lisa Pont | 9 | 2019 | $0.90 Add |
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From Canadian Center for Addictions (CCFA)From: About Face |
The final section of the book discusses a variety of organizations that work to help people suffering from addictions. | Seth Fletcher | 7 | 2019 | $0.70 Add |
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From  Community PerspectiveAngela Crockwell From: Rock Paper Sex |
This interview with Angela Crockwell, who works in St. John’s Newfoundland in community outreach, discusses systemic barriers to poverty and ideal services to alleviate poverty and increase … | Keri Cull | 12 | 2017 | $1.20 Add |
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From Community PerspectiveSafe Harbour Outreach Project From: Rock Paper Sex |
This chapter is an interview with Safe Harbour Outreach Project and it touches on the challenges sex workers face, including criminalization and stigma of it, and how those challenges can be … | Keri Cull | 8 | 2017 | $0.80 Add |
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From Community PerspectiveGovernment/Outreach Employee From: Rock Paper Sex |
This interview with an anonymous government worker discusses homelessness and its connection to sex workers and human trafficking. | Keri Cull | 4 | 2017 | $0.40 Add |
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From Community ResourcesFrom: Rock Paper Sex |
This chapter provides a list of services helpful to those connected to sex work. | Keri Cull | 4 | 2017 | $0.40 Add |
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From Concave ManFrom: About Face |
The readings in the third section of the book discuss food related mental illnesses including body dysmorphia and eating disorders. The readings in this section include firsthand accounts from … | Andrew Dreschler | 9 | 2019 | $0.90 Add |
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From  Connections Between Nature and HealingFrom: Field Excercises |
Readings in this book consist of case studies of programs that use outdoor activities such as farming and gardening to help veterans cope with PTSD and disability. This reading explores the ways … | Stephanie Westlund | 25 | 2014 | $2.50 Add |
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From  Creating Crip-Centric Liberated ZonesFrom: Crip Kinship |
Topics discussed include crip-centric approaches to activism and community, Crip-Centric Liberated Zones, Disability Justice, madness, decolonizing our bodyminds, institutionalisation of the … | Shayda Kafai | 15 | 2021 | $1.50 Add |
 Criminalizing Race, Criminalizing PovertyWelfare Fraud Enforcement in Canada |
The criminalization and penalization of poverty through increased surveillance and control of welfare recipients in recent years has led many poverty advocates to claim that “a war against … | Kiran Mirchandani; Wendy Chan | 102 | 2007 | View |
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From Criminalizing Welfare Recipients of Color |
Kiran Mirchandani; Wendy Chan | 15 | 2005 | $1.50 Add | |
Crip KinshipThe Disability Justice & Art Activism of Sins Invalid |
The remarkable story of Sins Invalid, a performance project that centres queer disability justice. In recent years, disability activism has come into its own as a vital and necessary means to … | Shayda Kafai | 201 | 2021 | View |
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From Crip Kinship and Cyber LoveFrom: Crip Kinship |
Topics discussed include kinship networks, online community, online romance, “crip emotional intelligence,” microcultures, and digital crip kinship during Covid-19. | Shayda Kafai | 15 | 2021 | $1.50 Add |
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From Crip Sex as Transformative Pleasure UniverseFrom: Crip Kinship |
Topics discussed include crip sex and sexuality, sexual liberation, historical sterilization of disabled and racialized populations, pleasure activism, and desirability. | Shayda Kafai | 19 | 2021 | $1.90 Add |
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From David is CandidFrom: Rock Paper Sex |
The firsthand account of a man named David who hires sex workers. A personal discussion about the ethical questions surrounding sex work. | Keri Cull | 5 | 2017 | $0.50 Add |
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From Dealing with PTSD, Anxiety, Chronic Pain and Harm ReductionFrom: About Face |
On Narcotics. The essays in the first section of the book discuss substance abuse. These readings include personal accounts of struggles with addiction in all its forms. The authors in these … | Melissa Cook | 6 | 2019 | $0.60 Add |
