Disabilty Rights
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From ![]() A Crisis of Poverty: Economic Disparities, Disabled Women, and AbuseThe Healing Journey Study Health Status and Abused Women's Vulnerability for Poverty Health Issues and Disabilities and the Workforce Intimate Partner Violence, Disabilities, and the Depth of Poverty Types of Abuse and Chronic Health Issues or Disabilities Policy Implications References From: Not A New Problem |
Linda DeRiviere | 24 | 2018 | $2.40 Add | |
![]() About Canada: Disability Rights |
Through a close examination of employment, education, transportation, telecommunications and health care, About Canada: Disability Rights explores the landscape of disability rights in Canada and … | Deborah Stienstra | 134 | 2012 | View |
![]() NEW! About Canada: Disability Rights2nd Edition |
Including people with disabilities fully into Canadian society, with the rights enjoyed by non-disabled people, requires a fundamental social transformation, not simply “fixing” some … | 168 | View | ||
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From ![]() NEW! Accessible Housing Is a Human RightFrom: Living Disability |
David Meyers writes about accessible housing as a human right. He explains that governments across Canada do not meet the needs of disabled people for accessible housing, and that disability-led … | David Meyers | 12 | 2024 | $1.20 Add |
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From ![]() AfterwordFrom: Disfigured |
The afterword reflects on portrayals of disability and wheelchair use in recent media. | Amanda Leduc | 9 | 2020 | $0.90 Add |
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From ![]() An “Unconscious Terrain of Habits”: Structural Violence against Women Labelled with Intellectual DisabilitiesNew Structures and New Discourses: The More Things Change, the More They Stay the Same Who Decides Who is a(t) Risk? Creating Vulnerabilities Reinforcing “Otherness” and Normalizing Violence A Fragmented System: Managing Lives and Creating Divisions Creating Crises and Managing Risks Containing Sexuality Equality: Undoing the “Unconscious Terrain of Habits” References Videos From: Not A New Problem |
Josée Boulanger; Natalie Spagnuola | 21 | 2018 | $2.10 Add | |
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From ![]() Artmaking as EvidenceFrom: Crip Kinship |
Topics discussed include multidisciplinary artmaking, strategies of resilience, building disabled queer art-activism, crip time, Disability Justice and Transformative Justice, eugenics, and … | Shayda Kafai | 18 | 2021 | $1.80 Add |
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From ![]() Beauty as Liberation, as Splendid Crip FutureFrom: Crip Kinship |
Topics discussed include crip-centric reclaiming of beauty, desire and eroticism, decolonizing beauty, and beauty as liberation. | Shayda Kafai | 12 | 2021 | $1.20 Add |
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From ![]() Becoming A Living TextFrom: Maternity Rolls |
Heather Kuttai | 13 | 2010 | $1.30 Add | |
![]() BerylThe Making of the Disability Activist |
A survivor of more than one hundred surgeries, a dangerous opioid addiction, and multiple suicide attempts, Beryl Potter devoted herself to bettering the lives of other people with disabilities … | Dustin Galer | 318 | 2023 | View |
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From ![]() Beyond the Social Model of DisabilityEngaging in Anti-Oppressive Social Work Practice |
This chapter addresses anti-oppressive social work practice with people with disabilities. The authors highlight the importance of language in the social construction of disability and expanding … | Irene Carter; Judy MacDonald; Roy Hanes | 19 | 2017 | $1.90 Add |
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From ![]() NEW! Breaking Barriers: My Journey as a Hard-of-Hearing Candidate in Toronto’s Municipal ElectionFrom: Living Disability |
Igor Samardzic writes about running for city council in Toronto in 2022 as a disabled person. He discusses his experience of hearing loss, his use of hearing aids, and how his relationship with … | Igor Samardzic | 8 | 2024 | $0.80 Add |
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From ![]() NEW! Chapter 1: “We Were Maybe Not Going to Save the World, but We Were Going to Save Each Other”: How Disabled Mutual Aid Is Different than Abled Mutual AidPART I: DISABILITY JUSTICE IN THE END TIME From: The Future is Disabled |
This chapter explores how disbaled people supported and kept each other alive during Covid-19. It reflects on the difficulties of the pandemic for disabled people, "crip skills," … | Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha | 20 | 2022 | $2.00 Add |
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From ![]() NEW! Chapter 10: Disability Justice Writing, the Beauty and the DifficultyPART II: THE STORIES THAT KEEP US ALIVE: DISABILITY JUSTICE ARTS IN THE INTERREGNUM From: The Future is Disabled |
This chapter is on disability justice writing. Topics include creating crip spaces, disabled art/literature and artists/writers, writing about death and grief, creative spaces, education and … | Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha | 15 | 2022 | $1.50 Add |
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From ![]() NEW! Chapter 11: Autistic Long-Form, Short-Form, No-Form, Echotextia: Autistic Poetic FormsPART II: THE STORIES THAT KEEP US ALIVE: DISABILITY JUSTICE ARTS IN THE INTERREGNUM From: The Future is Disabled |
This chapter is on autistic art, creativity, and language. | Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha | 8 | 2022 | $0.80 Add |
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From ![]() NEW! Chapter 12: Cripping the Book TourPART II: THE STORIES THAT KEEP US ALIVE: DISABILITY JUSTICE ARTS IN THE INTERREGNUM From: The Future is Disabled |
This chapter explores the challenges of being a disabled writer/creative. The author describes their journey to becoming a writer and outlines some tips for disabled writers. | Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha | 16 | 2022 | $1.60 Add |













