LWWRC Director @dstienstra.bsky.social recently wrote an article on how #feminist disability activists have reshaped inaccessible policy spaces.
Read “Women with Disabilities Have been Misfitting in Canada’s Foreign Policy for Thirty Years" in the Open Canada journal: bit.ly/4rssvpY
#Disability
My thoughts on women with disabilities and Canadian foreign policy opencanada.org/women-with-d...
A Danish Program Takes On the Stigma of Mental Illness www.nytimes.com/2026/03/03/h...
Colleges See Spike in Students With Disabilities, Including Elite Schools www.nytimes.com/2026/03/02/u...
Announcing "A Disability Livelihoods Approach to Including Communities Meaningfully in Development,” a new publication from the @sshrc-crsh.canada.ca -funded Disability and Livelihoods in Canada project.
Learn more about this chapter: bit.ly/4cj1Ac3
#LivelihoodsCanada @dstienstra.bsky.social
On December 3, 2025, for International Day of Persons with Disabilities, Statistics Canada released a series of products that highlight the diverse experiences of persons with #disabilities in Canada.
Visit our news post to learn more: bit.ly/4advqfp
#Disability #DisabilityAwareness
In December, Disability Without Poverty hosted their 2025 research symposium!
The panel '2SLGBTQ+ People with Disabilities and Experiences of Poverty in Canada,’ presented the first national study on poverty among #2SLGBTQ+ Canadians with #disabilities. Read more: bit.ly/45LX2a5
#LivelihoodsCanada
Graphic of a person rolling in a wheelchair. A faint silhouette of the earth is in the background as well as red, green, blue, and yellow line decals. Text reads: Intersecting Agendas: Gender and Disability-Inclusive Peacebuilding at the UN.
Watch a recording of our Sept. 26 panel exploring the inclusion of persons with disabilities in UN peacebuilding initiatives!
Learn more and watch the 'Intersecting Agendas: Gender and Disability-Inclusive Peacebuilding at the UN' panel in our news post: bit.ly/4iB2din
@edid-ghdi.bsky.social
Roberta Hawkins, she is pictured wearing a forest green shirt, her complexion is light, and she has short blonde hair cut to her chin. Included is a quote from her time on the Teaching in Higher Ed podcast, where she said: We are not cogs in an institutional machine.
📢New podcast alert!
Reimagining Care cluster co-lead, Roberta Hawkins, was a guest on the @tihe.bsky.social podcast. She explored answers to questions like: How do we survive in #academia, and make it better for others?
Find more info and the full episode in our news post: bit.ly/3Xm4jJ5
Happy to share a new open-access publication: "Bringing feminist disability knowledge to Canada's global policies" doi.org/10.1177/0020... @cpsa-acsp.bsky.social @raulpachecovega.bsky.social @edid-ghdi.bsky.social @liveworkwell.bsky.social
The United Nations isn't doing enough on disability www.disabilitydebrief.org/debrief/un-s... #a11y
There was a study that was done, which was submitted as part of this study, and it states that 88% of all Canadian faculty in universities are left-leaning and that 12% are right-leaning. Do you see an issue with that?
I'm reading the transcript of a House of Commons committee hearing about #EDI in Research
Full text: www.ourcommons.ca/documentview...
#HigherEd 🧪
Representative Vincent Ho, Richmond Hill South, is asking the USAgov-questions out loud:
This is deeply distrubing, especially as publically available data demonstrates that research proposals from many equity-deserving groups remains under-represented in Tricouncil funding.
Here's the speech! www.cpac.ca/headline-pol...
New Research: The Challenges of (Re)Building Trust Post-COVID—People with disabilities and Canadian governments.
📢Recently, a team from the LWWRC, including Director
@dstienstra.bsky.social and PhD student @mariadidanieli.bsky.social, presented their paper—The Challenges of (Re)Building Trust Post-COVID: People with Disabilities and Canadian Governments.
Read more in our latest news post: bit.ly/3KXnbeF!
On September 26, 2025, @edid-ghdi.bsky.social
will co-host a virtual panel on the inclusion of persons with disabilities in United Nations peacebuilding policy and practice.
⏰: September 26, 2025, 10:30am-12pm ET
📍Virtually on Zoom
Register and learn more: bit.ly/45YcGjf!
Congratulations LWWRC director,
@dstienstra.bsky.social, GRA Kathryn Reinders, and former GRA Dilshan L. Fernando on their recent chapter, “A Disability Livelihoods Approach to Including Communities Meaningfully in Development.”
Learn more about their chapter at bit.ly/46U6c5U!
Reinstate the dedicated WAGE cabinet position, an important national machinery central to gains made in women's rights and gender equality! We can’t risk any backpedalling!
Read the joint release:
https://tinyurl.com/49pyx9np
Check out this resource:
https://tinyurl.com/s489j8xc
CRIAW-ICREF's Jane Stinson along with researchers Leah Levac and Leah Fusco have written an op-ed about GBA Plus and impact assessments in the development of Canada's energy sector.
Click here to read this editorial:
"Disabled women are making waves like never before, ushering in societal change through politics, business, acting, science, sport, music, journalism and more." www.theguardian.com/world/2025/a...
At the Countering Policy Exclusions: Centring Accessibility to Advance the Right to Housing panel, join civil society leaders and researchers to discuss how people with disabilities - especially women and gender-diverse folks - are being failed by, and are responding to, housing failures in Ontario.
Join us April 10, from 12:30pm to 2pm ET for “Countering Policy Exclusions: Centring accessibility to advance the right to housing.” We’ll hear from panelists Mike Greer, Roz Gunn, and Alex Nelson. To find out more about this awesome event, visit tr.ee/b83cF9.
Friends, more analysis to come but: the UN #CRPD Concluding Observations re: Canada are out. Some important commentary on housing, prisons, education, and institutionalizations AND Canada’s Arms Sales to Israel: tbinternet.ohchr.org/_layouts/15/...
#disabilityjustice
Congratulations Leah Fusco, Jane Stinson, @dstienstra.bsky.social, and @leahlevac.bsky.social on their new report on applying Gender-Based Analysis Plus (GBA Plus) to offshore wind development. Find out more in our news post: bit.ly/4kHn0RP
Join us online for this important conversation about disability, international commitments and countering exclusion.
Join us for an important discussion!
Love this zine about #postsecondary #universities and how to make them more caring places bit.ly/4htd2kV
@ccrworg.bsky.social has a new disability toolkit for employers to learn how to make their workplace more accessible! The Disability Confidence Toolkit helps employers move from a place of accommodation compliance to confidence. Find out more information in our news article: bit.ly/3CMXbP9
Vraie-Idea is hosting “Speaker Series: Uncovering Episodic Disability; An Intersectional Perspective On Accommodation and Belonging.” On January 31, 12pm-1pm EST on Zoom, Ingrid Palmer will present on episodic disabilities. Learn more and register at bit.ly/3PIhLmV.
Marsha Ireland is bridging both the deaf and hearing worlds while tackling inclusivity, Indigenous rights and revitalization in four different languages.
