Category: Articles
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Wakanda Forever & Haiti
As you may have noticed, I tend to write solely about accessibility or disability issues. After all, being disabled is quite rooted in my personal experience, so it is hard to view a topic, without a certain disability perspective. However, writing about disability and accessibility requires constant clever analysis. One must adopt quite a victim”…
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Is Robarts Library Accessible?
Short answer? No, not really. But we must acknowledge that it has certainly improved the accessibility of the building before it was renovated. In 2019, there was a brief moment in which Robarts had turnstile doors. They were heavy doors. Not very accessible. Nowadays, the main entrance of the building has been renovated and uses…
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Open your eyes, Hollywood
Have you ever wondered why most villains of fiction and fairytales tend to have a disability trait? Neither did I, I until Peter Dinklage pointed it out. Writing this feature was one of the more enjoyable ones. While it required doing additional reading on top of the readings I have to do for class, I…
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Petition to increase ODSP funding reaches over 50,000 signatures
In an interview with The Varsity, I raised awareness of the petition to the provincial government to increase funding for ODSP. During 2020-2021 there were about 520,000 beneficiaries in the Ontario Disability Support Program. However, “the support provided by ODSP is 30% below Ontario’s poverty line with a single person can recive a maximum of…
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COP26: Nothing but Empty Words, No Action, and Inaccessibility
COP26, a UN conference that aimed to spread awareness of environmental issues and inspire political actors to take a stronger stance on global warming through new stricter policies. However, as Swedish activist Greta Thunberg stated that they are nothing but “blah, blah, blah”—empty words with no actions. We can say the same regarding the many…
Catherine CC Dumé 