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A Few of My Advocacy Undertakings 

Current - Get Involved!

Accessible Housing Pledge

A campaign to have candidates in the 2022 municipal take a pledge to prioritize accessible housing in their community if elected. Planning is underway for the Fall 2026 Election. If you're interested in helping, please get in touch! See the pledge HERE!

BC Accessibility Forum 

A Facebook group intended as a place to share information about the Accessible BC Act, connect Accessibility Committee members, and especially to promote the use of the Accessibility Feedback Mechanisms that all municipalities and the BC Government are required to have. Join HERE!

Barrier Buster Poster

A publicly available, editable poster template that anyone can use to get the word out about their local government's Accessibility Feedback Mechanism. Download HERE.

Past

Co-Founder Dignity Denied

A grassroots advocacy group opposed to medical assistance in dying. You can see a record of those efforts HERE, including our Change.org petition, which gathered over 12,500 signatures.

Beach Wheelchair

Supported the fundraising, purchase and donation of a beach wheelchair to the District of Invermere. See it in action HERE!

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Resources, Links & Reading Recommendations

A photo of a stack of disability-themed books.

Resources and Further Learning about Disability and Ableism

 

Clickable Links:

 

UNHR video about Ableism

Working definition of Ableism (Jan. 2022 Update)

Talila A. Lewis

Indigenous Perspectives of Disability

Minerva Rivas Velarde, Disability Studies Quarterly. Dec. 2021

Understanding ableism and negative reactions to disability

Dana S. Dunn. American Psychological Association. Dec. 2021

 

Stella Young’s TedTalk  “I Am Not Your Inspiration”

Inclusive Language Guide for Media

Humber Polytechnic

Ableism is The Bane of My Motherf***ng Existence

Barnard Center for Research on Women

Short video on Ableism (language warning)

Eight Ways to Support Disability Justice and Counter Ableism

Michelle Stack and Heidi L. Janz

The Tyee, Feb. 2024

Let's Raise the Roof - A Social Model of Disability

Welsh Government video

Great Books To Read

Care Work: Dreamin disability justice by Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha
Disability Visibility by Alice Wong
The Anti-Ableist Manifesto, by Tiffany Yu
Ableist Rhetoric by James L. Cherney
Committed by Susan Burch
Crippled: Austerity and the Demonization of Disabled People by Francis Ryan
How Ableism Fuels Racism by Lamar Hardwick
Demystifying Disability: What to Know, What to Say, and How to Be an Ally
Ableist Rhetoric, by James L. Cherney
Academic Ableism by Jay Timothy Dolmage
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