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Your pro gun control rhetoric is dangerous for people like me
Last week, I read this column by Aziz Ansari in the New York Times about how Donald Trump makes him scared for his family. It’s an important message: people like Trump (and plenty who are less obvious...
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Calling Trump “crazy” is lazy, ableist and counterproductive
There are so many ways to describe Donald Trump. Entitled. White. Wealthy. Hateful. Ignorant. An asshole. None of those facts make him “crazy”. Unfortunately, “insanity” of some kind seems to be the...
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If a cyclist yells at a driver, it’s because they’re afraid they’re going to...
On Friday morning, I biked to work. This summer I have cycled about two or three times a week. It’s about 15 minutes to bike from my house, most of it down a six-lane major street that is busy by...
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Sophie Grégoire Trudeau needs to stop talking about mental health
Sophie Grégoire Trudeau calls herself “an activist for women’s empowerment and gender equality” and has spoken out a number of times about her struggles with bulimia and anorexia. Most recently she...
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Reflections on public pain and collective rage at the end of 2016
I’ve cried in public more times than I can count. I’ve cried openly on the bus after saying goodbye to a loved one, I’ve cried at parties, and I’ve cried at work. Yesterday I sat in a coffee shop and...
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Five unhelpful things I wish people would stop saying to me
Our society is not very good at listening to neurodivergent folks. When we’re not being told we are lazy, the things we ask for are routinely ignored. Sometimes the way that this happens is very...
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“Believe women” is not only about sexual assault
The following contains descriptions of sexism and mention of sexual assault. In case you missed it, there was a twitter thread that went viral last week when a man described how he discovered that the...
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Larger class sizes hit kids with learning disabilities where it hurts
Until now, kindergarten to grade 3 classrooms in Manitoba, where I live, have been limited to 20 students each. Yesterday the provincial government announced they would remove the cap, and allow...
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Call for submissions: stories about living with Nonverbal Learning Disorder
Nonverbal Learning Disorder (NLD) is not well-known even within disability justice circles. It’s one of the least common forms of learning disability and consequently there is very little written about...
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Let’s talk about the fact that a doctor recommended murdering a patient
Trigger warning: this story contains discussion of eugenics and violence against disabled people. Last year, a doctor at Labrador-Grenfell Health in St. Anthony, N.L. told Sheila Elson that her...
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