On this episode of In The Know: The Truth Is, Chella Man (@chellaman) and Aaron Rose Philip (@aaron___philip) are joined by award-winning poet and disability activist, Kay Ulanday Barrett ...

An award-winning music artist and advocate for the disability community performed her songs and discussed disability culture at a Feb. 6 event. Lachi showcased her songs “Far,” “Dis Education” and ...

In 2012, Vilissa Thompson received her masters degree in social work. As she was job searching, she started to blog about social work and disability. A year later she turned that blog into her own ...

Within the scope of the Social Justice Project, students in the Department of Gender Studies are organising a panel discussion on the intersections of disabilities with other social markers. As a ...

ALBANY – Disability advocate, filmmaker, and cinematographer, Cameron S. Mitchell just put out yet another short film. This time, his project Kryptonite focuses on the intersectionality between two ...

Disability can be difficult to talk about sensitively because of how embedded ableism is in our language, biases and perceptions of disability. Conversations about disability are slowly increasing, ...

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Nisha Jose is a counselling Psychologist and Founder of Vathil Foundation, a non-profit institute for wellness, inclusion and empowerment. She is a person with locomotor disability and partially ...

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