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Scarlet Road: Exploring the healing side of sex work

Once I was chained to a ceiling by a paraplegic man.

He welcomed me warmly into his studio and we hit it off immediately. I came to his house having no idea that the photographer I would be modelling for that day had contacted me via email using a combination of his mouth and a metal dowel attached to one elbow. In fact, everything he did in his life he did that way. A cable extension from his camera that he could hold in his mouth and bite down was all he needed to activate the shutter, and for changing the camera’s setting he used his lips and tongue.

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Krystalline Kraus

Activist Communique: Dis/ability and Activism - No One Likes to be Left Behind (Part 2/2)

| February 27, 2013
October 29, 2012 |
What we are going to wind up with is a mishmash of services and rates across Ontario with no central oversight and a system that cares less about the individual and more about budgets.

The Moral Significance of Sex Workers and People With Disabilities

As many of them will testify, being a person with a disability makes acquiring sexual and romantic fulfilment difficult. Denise Beckwith, a medal-winner in the Sydney Paralympics, told ABC News that her interaction with a sex worker helped her develop in ways she otherwise may not have.

Take a Sick Day! Join racialized and disabled youth August 18 at the AGO

Take a Sick Day! is an event organized by and for racialized and disabled youth. Join us on August 18, 2012, at the Art Gallery of Ontario for a day of strategy sessions and collective discussions on our relationships to and our experiences with our bodies and disability. Our goal is to talk about "health" on our own terms and as our own experts.

Visit us on Facebook, athttps://www.facebook.com/events/401535349910057/ or check out our blog at takesickday.wordpress.com/.

Disability, Racism, and Work in Canada: Black and Filipina women's experiences of exploitation and resistance

Date: Wednesday, July 25, 2012 - 5:00pm - 7:00pm

Location

Vari Hall, Room 1156, York University Toronto, ON
Canada
Phone: 416-978-8201
43° 39' 11.6136" N, 79° 22' 59.4624" W

 

 

Transnational Narratives of Disability Speaker Series presents:

 

Disability, Racism, and Work in Canada: 

Black and Filipina women’s experiences of exploitation and resistance

 

Wednesday, July 25, 5-7 pm

Vari Hall, Room 1156

York University

 

Featuring

 

Joy Sioson, Chairperson, Philippine Women’s Centre of Ontario

Roberta Timothy, Postdoctoral Fellow, Ontario Institute for Studies in Education

Rachel Gorman, Assistant Professor, York U. Critical Disability Studies

 

Please join us for a panel presentation and discussion of:

Anti-Black racism and disability

Dalton Is Trying to Cut Disability Pensions Email to Stop HIm....Tell all your friends!

Psst... Pass it on to everyone you know!

If we all write to Dalton & Andrea ...

....we can stop this budget that would destroy Ontario

 

email Dalton:'

dmcguinty.mpp.co@liberal.ola.org

 

email Andrea:

ahorwath-co@ndp.on.ca

 

 

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Eli Clare's Exile and Pride: Disability, Queerness and Liberation

Exile and Pride

Exile and Pride (Classics Edition): Disability, Queerness, and Liberation

by Eli Clare
(South End Press,
2009;
$19.99)

I often feel that describing the pieces that I write in response to books as “reviews” is a bit inaccurate because I only occasionally relate to the books in question in the ways that a review is, traditionally, supposed to. What I write tend to be more reactions or reflections or responses, or just meanderings. Nonetheless, I inevitably end up deciding just to sit with that unease -- to accept that the label “review” doesn’t always quite fit the way it is normatively intended and to trouble and loosen it by taking it on anyway. In the case of this book, I’m afraid that what I write will be more of a moderately reflective fanboy “squee” than a proper review.

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Monsters

Think about it, Monsers are by and large persons with disabilties. Zombies have Cerebral Palsey Vampires have a form of Porferia Frakenstein's Monster is a non verbal Autistic. etc.
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