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 …
Thanks to Dev and Kate of the CRIP Collective for the interview just now! We talked about disability and ableism, and about their work doing community-based education in those areas. Listen for it on Talking Radical Radio in a few weeks!
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 …
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 …
Kyle Vose works for a social service agency in Toronto and is the agency co-chair of the ODSP Action Coalition. In earlier years, he was also an ODSP (or Ontario Disability Support Program) recipient and served as the recipient co-chair of the coalition. And Andrea Hatala is its current recipient co-chair. Scott Neigh interviews them about ODSP, the …
Marty Wexler is a social worker and one of the founding members of the Disability Rights Coalition of Nova Scotia, a cross-disability coalition of individuals and organizations. Claire McNeil is a lawyer. She has been involved in a number of cases challenging instances of institutionalization in Nova Scotia, and for many years has been an …
Just finished the second of two Talking Radical Radio interviews for the week. Yesterday, I spoke to Kate of End Dress Codes about their work in Toronto against discriminatory dress codes in public schools — part of a recent victory that resulted in a major policy change by Canada’s largest school board. And today I talked with Marty and …