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 recently read a story of a woman forced to have fundraisers to cover her chemo treatment after she was excluded from purchasing insurance coverage because of a separate pre-existing conditions:
Iowan grandmother Deb Robben shopped the insurance market, looking for a company that would cover her. Unfortunately, after a lengthy search, she was unable to [...]
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.
I was sitting in the lunch room at work with a group of co-workers, flipping through the newspapers. I came to an article on the suicide of Marie Osmond’s son, which led to the whole table discussing the incident. And it was immediately underlined for me how little most people know about mental illness and [...]
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 [...]
You’ve heard the term “choice feminism” right? Usually used derisively by a person who is arguing: Just because a woman makes a choice does not make it a feminist choice, we have to be able to examine issues on a systemic rather than individual level, some choices that individual feels are good for them are [...]
“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 [...]
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