I’m on a variety of mailing lists dedicated to people with disabilities across Canada, and students are looking for university information. This can vary from what services are offered through Student Accessibility Services, how accessible a campus is, and what residence options they have available.
I only learned two days ago, by chance, that my [...]
My Student Union is doing work right now around issues of student residences.
I received this via a mailing list I’m part of.
Check out http://www.nawwd.co.za for an e-Library developed to support Women with Disabilitiies in Africa
In September 2009 the Secretariat of the African Decade of Persons with Disabilities (SADPD) commissioned Disability Action Research Team (DART) and CBR Education & Training for Empowerment (CREATE) to strengthen the Network of [...]
Watch it on YouTube!
It’s a video of a pairs figure-skating routine where the male half of the pair is in a wheelchair, and it is awesome.
So, for International Women’s Day, I want to remind readers that there are certain stories that we tell about certain women, and that these stories have a purpose.
Perhaps we can subvert that.
One of the things that drove me up the wall about a certain popular television show that I’m not going to talk about was the scene with the “Deaf Choir”. I put “Deaf Choir” in scare quotes here because, while the members of the choir showed in that show were Deaf, that didn’t look much like any of the Deaf singing that I’ve seen.
But hey – don’t take my word for it.
I should have mentioned earlier!
For the second year in a row, the Con_or_Bust fundraiser is running. Organized by Kate Nepveu, it’s a fundraiser to help fen of colour make it to WisCon, the world’s largest Feminist Science Fiction/Fantasy Convention.
Learn more about the fundraising auction.
How fen of colour can request assistance.
The auction itself.
Bidding is in [...]
“Supporting access to post-secondary education and employment for students
with disabilities”
All Abilities Awareness Week will take place at McMaster University, The Pulse centre, from March 1st to March 5th. The week has been designed to promote active living for people with disabilities, increase awareness in the general campus population of disability issues and provide information regarding [...]
Yes, of course Darnton. You describe a life of abject misery and back-breaking labour, so obviously people faked being disabled all the time.
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