News
Why are women with disabilities being given help to die, instead of help to live?
Carmela Hutchison | Women with disabilities do not necessarily seek medically assisted death because they are disabled, but because they aren't valued by the medical establishment or by society.
Blog
Image: Flickr/Quinn Dombrowski
Let's talk about the fact that a doctor recommended murdering a patient
Liz Kessler | The huge amount of power that doctors have makes it likely that Canada's assisted dying laws will be abused.
Blog
Image: Adam Zeek/flickr
Five ableist things I wish people would stop saying to me
Liz Kessler | "Normalcy" isn't possible, and it's not the goal, so trying to reassure me that I seem normal is useless.
News
Image: Flickr/Gage Skidmorev
Donald Trump isn't 'crazy.' He's a man-child who has always gotten his own way.
Liz Kessler | Calling Donald Trump 'crazy' or 'insane' isn't just ableist -- it disguises his privilege and hateful message.
Book Review
Fat activism: A history by and for fat people
Laura Brightwell | Charlotte Cooper's book Fat Activism: A Radical Social Movement studies the history of fat activism and seeks to challenge its current, more problematic, narratives.
News
Photo: Bonnie Brayton
On International Women's Day, remember women living with disabilities too
Bonnie Brayton | How many Canadians today will be thinking about women with disabilities when they think about women's equality?
Blog
PHOTOS: Toronto Disability Pride calls for 'ramps, not bombs!'
Jesse McLaren | Saturday October 3 was the fifth annual Toronto Disability Pride March to bring recognition of the struggles and value of people with disabilities.
Blog
Allison and her awesome son.
Autism is not a catastrophe, Robert J. Kennedy
Allison Garber | Being autistic brings forth a number of challenges to day-to-day life, but many of those challenges exist because of our society's inability to take the time to understand autism.
Blog
Image: mychildwithoutlimits.org
Stop saying vaccines don't cause autism. It's nothing to be afraid of.
Anne Theriault | Even though it's factually true, saying 'vaccines don't cause autism' falls into the same ableist narrative as 'vaccines cause autism.'
Blog
Ignorance gave me ableism: This week's Blogs roundup
Jessica Prupas | A roundup of the highlights from the Blogs this week
Activist Toolkit
Stopping Use of the "R-Word"
| A campaign to end use of the word "retarded"
Podcast
Anti-ableism in the city: Accessibilize Montreal
Scott Neigh | Paul Tsuma and Aimee Louw talk about a new group that is challenging both physical barriers and the broader barriers of ableism in Montreal.