Tag Archives: disability justice

Learning from Organizers – Dev Ramsawakh

Dev Ramsawakh is a disabled, transmasculine, and diasporic Indo-Caribbean multidisciplinary storyteller, producer, and educator. Their written, audio, and video work focuses on their intersecting identities, on community, and on deconstructing colonial systems, and it has appeared in a wide range of outlets, venues, and events, both grassroots and mainstream.  They are also a co-founder of …

Radio: Anti-ableism and disability justice education

Kate Welsh and Dev Ramsawakh are co-creators of the CRIP Collective, a small group of Toronto-based disabled educators and artists who do anti-ableism, anti-oppression, and disability justice-related workshops, and various other kinds of community building with disabled people, using an intersectional approach. Scott Neigh talks with them about disability, ableism, and the collective’s use of …

Radio: Autistic people organizing under the banner of disability justice

Vivan Ly, Iris Parker, and Allie are organizing collective members of Autistic United Canada, a grassroots organization of autistic youth and adults with thousands of members across the country. Scott Neigh interviews them about autism and about the organization’s advocacy, mutual aid and peer support, and education work. Vivian is an autistic multiply disabled queer …

Radio — A new wave of anti-ableist and anti-eugenics organizing in Canada

Catherine Frazee and Quin Lawrence are activists and organizers who have been involved in many issues, but they are particularly focused on disability issues. They were part of the upswell of opposition to Bill C-7, which expanded the eligibility for medical assistance in dying in Canada. In the week before the legislation passed, that opposition …

Radio — Disability justice, pandemic mutual aid, and fighting to defund the police

Sarah Jama is a young organizer in Hamilton, Ontario who has been involved in a wide range of different kinds of grassroots work – prominently including struggles against anti-Black racism, working for disability justice, and a whole range of other things. Scott Neigh interviews her about the trajectory of her organizing, particularly her work co-founding the Disability Justice Network …

Interviews!

I’ve done two interviews for Talking Radical Radio in the last few days. On Thursday, I interviewed Kyle and Andrea from the ODSP Action Coalition about fighting for improvements in Ontario’s social assistance program for disabled people. Today, I spoke with Natalia and Hector of Dignidad Migrante about organizing by seasonal agricultural workers in Canada and their struggles for dignity and …