Tag: social justice
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An Update on Stonewall
So many yays and thank-yous to Kirsten Schultz for working so hard on this and reporting their progress every step of the way. Kirsten isn’t the only person to speak up about this, but they were one of the most vocal. Kirsten’s involvement is also notable because they’re not a guide dog (or any service…
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Weekend Reading: Sexuality and Disability History
Everybody’s getting in on the “let’s publish sex and disability articles” deal these days. Query Google (or your favourite search engine) for “sex and disability,” and your top results will almost always be from major online and print publications, and will date from the last four or five years. I’m not complaining about this. It’s…
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What Would a Truly Intersectional Anti-Violence Movement Look Like, Anyway?
In 2014, I was getting ready to move across the country, so my activism was mainly limited to reading articles and joining Twitter chats. Here’s what I wrote for that year’s “Decolonizing The Anti-Miolence Movement” conversation, which coincided with Domestic Violence Awareness Month. As always when I post these older pieces, I share this one…
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Please don’t leave disabled people’s realities out of reproductive justice history.
(I first published this piece on another blog in April 2014 in response to an article on RH Reality Check – now called Rewire. It’s 2017 now. My writing voice is different. The way I analyze and critique issues is different. Reproductive justice organizations are now making more of an effort to include disability and…