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Welcome, Dr. Chandler
To the left is a picture of Eliza Chandler.
My name is Eliza Chandler and I am the new Ethel Louise
Armstrong Post-Doctoral Fellow in the School of Disability
Studies. A post-doctoral fellowship (post-doc) can mean many things, but at the School it is this wonderful position created for a disabled woman who has recently completed her PhD to research an area related to disability studies and mad studies that is of interest to her. Dr. Kirsty Lidddiard, who many of you know, was the previous post-doc (and she has very large shoes to fill!). I am occupying her old office, the office beside
Kathryn’s. Feel free to drop in to introduce yourself or have a chat at any time. I wanted to introduce myself to you, as well as the topic I have chosen to study over the next two years. I will be researching disability and mad art in Canada. And I will be doing this in a number of ways, outlined in this letter.
Disability and Mad Arts Seminar Series
This year we will have monthly seminars with disability and mad artists and curators that are targeted at you, DST students and alumnus. This schedule currently has a few holes in it, so if you would like to hear about a topic related to disability and mad art, please let me know and I will see what
I can do! Here is the schedule and I will send out reminder emails as we go. Some of the dates are set and others are flexible.
Curating Huronia: Members from the upcoming
Surviving Huronia exhibit talk about the practices and politics of curating disability and mad art. December 2,
7:00-8:30PM, 401 Richmond Arts Centre, Urban Space
Gallery
This event will feature members of the Surviving Huronia curatorial committee discussing experiences of growing up in the Huronia Regional Centre, the Huronia class action suit, survivors art practices and their upcoming exhibitions, and how the collectivity of the curatorial committee seeks to disrupt the ‘top down’ approach through which disability and mad art has historically been curated. This talk is a ‘teaser’ for upcoming art exhibitions
.
For more on the Huronia Regional Centre and activism around it, please visit:

Huronia Institutional Survivors Website
Information about the successful class action suit brought to the government by survivors of Huronia
Premier Wynne’s apology (part of the class action settlement):
CBC Radio Documentary on Huronia and the Rideau Regional
Centre, The Gristle in the Stew (one of the only bits of national coverage)
The “ Remember Every Name ” Huronia cemetery restoration project
Project Creative Users: Accessing the City through Arts
Inquiry with Lindsay Fisher and Eliza Chandler, February
(date to be confirmed), Ryerson University (room number
to be confirmed)
Project Creative Users is a community disability arts initiative.
This group of 6 artists and non-artists are spending the fall together in workshops dedicated to creating artwork which address the theme, ‘accessibility in the city.’ We hope that the art we produce serves as an ‘open letter’ to the government addressing the AODA. This artwork will be displayed on our
Project Creative Users website, coming soon.
This event will feature a presentation the Project Creative Users collective discussing our experience making art collective and our thoughts on arts inquiry as a tool for disability justice based political action. We will also display and discuss our art!
These are a few of the events on the horizon for the 2014-15. I will circulate updates when details get filled in and new events are planned. Stay tuned!
Other things that I am involved with that may be of interest:
Canadian Disability Studies Association Conference, June
4, 5, and 6 2015, University of Ottawa, Ottawa, ON
As the president-elect of the Canadian Disability Studies
Association (CDSA-ACEI), I am working to create a Call for
Presentations for our upcoming conference that is open to undergraduate students and welcoming of mad studies and Deaf studies as well as disability studies. This call for participations will be circulated in October and the conference will take place at the
University of Ottawa June 4, 5, and 6 2015.

If you are at all interested in participating in this conference and would like to talk to someone about this, please get in touch with me. I would be more than happy to talk you through the application process and review your abstract. It would be great to have a critical mass of DST students at this conference! Also please note that there is a Student Paper Award that you can, and should, submit to.
For more information visit CDSA-ACEI
Tangled Arts + Disability, 401 Richmond Building, Suite S-
30, 401 Richmond Ave., Toronto ON
Along with this post-doc position, I am the Artistic Director of
Tangled Arts + Disability. Tangled is a disability arts organization located in the 401 Richmond Arts Building dedicated to supporting and cultivating disability arts. We have an annual festival and Kids Fest in March and April as well as additional programming throughout the year. Our Tangled on Tour programs disability and mad art throughout the province. This year we will be in London, Windsor, Ottawa, and Thunder Bay; if you live in one of these cities, please get in touch! We also have an artist-in-residency program for disability and/or madidentified artists. If you want to be support by, or volunteer for
Tangled, please get in touch. I will pass on lots of Tangled events throughout the year.
For more information visit Tangled
Please drop in for a chat or email me at any time
( eliza.chandler@ryerson.ca
). I’d love to hear from you.
To the left is picture of Kevin Jackson speaking at the Toronto Disability
Pride March.
Kevin Jackson, recent graduate of the program, wrote this speech for the Toronto Disability Pride March. He is an organizer for the March which happens every October.
Just what is a Disability Pride March?
The Toronto Disability Pride March means different things to different people, so, there really is no wrong answer to this question… but when contemplating what it is, we have a great deal of words passed down to us from past generations of activists and academics who’ve come before us.

For example, contemporary activist Mia Mingus (2010) describes disability pride in terms of Disability Justice when she says:
“We are trying to understand how we can build organizing and community spaces that are mixed-ability, cultivation solidarity between people with different disabilities. We are working to move together, as disabled people, through a world that wants to divide us
and keep us separate”.
For me, this is the core of what the Toronto Disability Pride
March is all about…yet, my fellow organizers may disagree with me, and that’s just fine. We all try to be open to each other’s ideas and ways of expressing their identities…although this is something that I still tend to struggle with, but my fellow organizers tolerate and support me.
But in terms of my own disability identity as a Mad Activist,
I just have a few words which may help us be more welcoming:
First, Mad activists need to be honest with themselves:
…It’s no surprise for people of colour that the interests of the contemporary Mad movement are fairly specific… I, as many other Mad activists and scholars, have begun to feel a growing sense of disidentification with the current, predominantly white, ableist set of Mad discourses and politics. This is a major problem for the movement, and I believe that Mad people’s struggles will only marginally improve if we continue to believe that we are a tightly grouped sphere of Mad activists, ignorantly existing within a constellation of Mad theory and discourse.
For that reason, as well as many others, I felt that expanding my own frame of politics was the key to advancing the goals of Mad people of colour and thus the disability rights movement, which of course INCLUDES the
Mad Movement. I joined the Toronto Disability Pride March organizing committee in 2011, and I found that this form of cross-disability activism completed a part of me that was missing from my own Mad activism.

This was a surprise to me, but other Mad activists and academics such as Judi Chamberlin, Don Weitz, Kathryn
Church, and others, have for a many years advocated crossdisability coalitions and working relationships (Weitz, 2012;
Church, 2013, personal communication). A contemporary example of this type of cross-disability solidarity movement is going on:
right here, right now…TODAY!
The Toronto Disability Pride March, is the first cross-disability solidarity and coalition March held in Toronto. The TDPM was born out of the Occupy Movement, and strives bring together people who have experienced physical, mental, and all other social oppressions.
Now let’s go back to the question about just what the Toronto
Disability Pride is:
The TDPM is very much about having pride in whom you are as a disabled person, but underpinning that platform, the
Toronto Disability Pride March is also about recognizing the need for disabled people to form ongoing solidarity and disability coalitions in order to politically reorganize ourselves to fight state neo-liberalism.
Many oppressed groups “are now beginning to realize that in order to create real change, we have to resist the temptation to work exclusively within the very systems that oppressed us** in the first place.”
So it’s fairly obvious that there is an adversary that we need to struggle against, BUT that adversary must not be other disabled people who have likewise not only been oppressed, but further disabled by the state.
I would like to conclude with a powerful quote from Edward
L. Hooper (1985):
“Alone each of us will end up trapped…accepting a lesser existence …that is why it’s critical that we reach more and more disabled people. Within
our community, the disabled community, we can console, complain to, empathize with and care for one another. Then, maybe we can
(metaphorically) look back into society’s eyes and say: “See, it’s YOU who need help, not us.

We will be patient but stern, repetitious in our discontent, angered at your indifference, relentless in our purpose. And in time, with OUR guidance, you may learn… It is easy to succumb to futility when your ideas are consistently dismissed as
“gibberish”…[but] …pause …There are many of us who DO understand…who are of common purpose:
THEY ARE THE DISABLED COMMUNITY! Society has shuffled us around, not trying to understand us, not knowing exactly whom, or what, they’re shuffling.
If we don’t vigorously acknowledge disability to ourselves and forge The Disabled Community, WE
WILL NEVER BE ACKNOWLEDGED!
Disabled people pose much less of a threat to the authoritarian, conservative Harper government if we continue to work as activists in isolation…but if we can manage to re-organize ourselves as a cohesive group of disability rights activists, with
each other’s interests as the primary goal, we may become a social and political powerhouse, able to effect positive and substantive change for ALL disabled people, as well as for other oppressed groups.
References:
Edward L. Hooper (1985). Seeking the disabled community. In The ragged edge: The
disability experience from the pages of the first fifteen years of the disability rag. (1994).
B. Shaw (Ed.), pp. 1-10.
Mingus, M. (2010). Changing the framework: Disability justice: How our communities can move beyond access to wholeness. Retrieved April 7, 2013: http://leavingevidence.wordpress.com/2011/02/12/changing-the-framework-disabilityjustice/
Weitz, D. (2012). Rise up/fight back. Ebook.
Below is a picture of Kathryn Church closing the March in front of the
Sally Horsfall Eaton building.

Social Justice, Action, Leadership
To the left is a picture of Winnie Ng. She holds the CAW-Sam Gindin
Chair in Social Justice and Democracy and teaches Leadership for
Social Action.
“Ideologies are not transformed or changed by replacing one, whole, already formed, conception of the world with another, so much as by renovating and making critical an
already existing activity.” (Stuart Hall,
1986)
On November 24, 1989, the House of Commons adopted a unanimous motion to eradicate child poverty in Canada in 2000.
Now a generation later, not only has that promise not been fulfilled, the child poverty rate in Canada has gone up. One in 7 children in Canada lives below poverty line, 50% are aboriginal and 40% are children from racialized communities.
In the context of a genderized and color-coded labor market
(Galabuzi and Block, 2011), the intersectionality of race, class, gender, abilities and other forms of systemic oppression is well reflected in who are bearing the brunt of this global race to bottom. For many, their harsh reality of precarious work and constant juggling to make ends meet has weighed heavily on their health and social well-being and made them more susceptive to the politics of fear and division.
Meanwhile, the income inequality gap continues to be widened.
According to the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives (2014),
Canada’s 100 highest paid CEOs make 171 times more than the average Canadian worker—and 194 times the average Canadian woman. Globally, the 500 families control over 56% of the wealth worldwide while one child dies every 4 seconds in a far remote corner of the world.
Recent mass mobilizing, such as the Occupy movement, the Idle
No More movement, the Quebec Student Strike in protest of the tuition hike have challenged the dominant narrative of the globalized market-driven economy and captured public imagination in terms of what the alternative can look like and how we can get there. Social Justice is a frame, a vision of seeing a world not built as a pyramid but more as a circle that is grounded in the principles of equality, solidarity and dignity. It is the rebuilding of a community, a society, and a world where no one needs to stand alone.

Social action organizing grounded in the core value of social justice is therefore, about asking critical questions, challenging the status quo, and expose the invisibility of the structural barriers, power and privilege. How can we re-imagine social justice and be inspired to organize locally to end the cycle of growing inequalities? What kind of leadership will it take to inspire people that have been most adversely impacted and build a movement that is truly from the bottom up it begins when we ask why, it begins when we recognize that we are each other’s keeper, it begins when we switch from saying I to saying WE.
Social Action and Leadership, the upcoming course from the
School of Disability Studies, is part of that offering in
“renovating and making critical an already existing activity” as poignantly depicted by Hall. In coming together to analyze, to strategize, and critically reflect on our own practice, we will recover our leadership narrative, reignite our sense of agency; and above all, find creative ways to build relationships and democratic practices. It is in such space of radical reimagination and community engagement that not only will we build a social movement of resistance but also lay track for genuine social transformation.
To the left is a picture of Helen Henderson. She is a current student of the Disability Studies program.
Finding a strong connection between real life and the broadbased principles I’ve learned through my courses in disability studies at Ryerson is not unusual. But this year’s summer institute gave a whole new dimension to the phenomenon. I didn’t know it at the time but Eliza Chandler’s course on strategies for community building was to influence me profoundly.
Not long after the end of classes, I was asked to moderate a
Toronto mayoral candidates’ debate on disability issues. It was sponsored by an impressive array of community groups, including the Ryerson School of Disability Studies. By the time I joined in the planning, it was clear that this was a textbook case of how to make things happen. The seven steps to successful movements, as defined by Kathryn Church, director of the School of Disability Studies, were well in place.

The 14 groups had situated themselves firmly in the cause of tearing down barriers to inclusion. They had started developing the issues while planning a debate prior to the previous municipal election. In a series of meetings, they decided to focus on affordable, accessible housing, transportation, employment and the culture of ableism. They refined their debate strategies, sought out allies throughout a wide range of advocacy groups. They all volunteered copious amounts of time and energy but none more so than
Effie Vlachoyannacos, interim director of development and community engagement at Scadding Court Community
Centre.
Somehow they found funding for support workers and communicators to make the debate accessible to everyone.
They promoted the event and it all came together in what I can only describe as an electric atmosphere when more than two hundred people thronged Tecumseh Auditorium Sept.
22. In reflecting, documenting and disseminating the event, they hope to build on the momentum. The end of the meeting felt like the beginning of something huge.
When it came to moderating, after boring family and friends with pre-debate jitters, I got up on the dais and suddenly knew what to do. I simply channelled Eliza Chandler, whose teaching method incorporated “moderating.”
I found this one of the most solid, exhilarating groups I’ve ever been a part of. They all deserve recognition: ARCH
Disability Law Centre, Birchmount Bluffs Neighbourhood
Centre, Bob Rumball Centre for the Deaf, Canadian Hearing
Society, Centre for Independent Living in Toronto, Ethno-
Racial people with Disabilities Coalition of Ontario,
Pooranlaw, Ryerson, Scadding Court, Schizophrenia Society of Ontario, Silent Voice, Toronto Association of the Deaf.
If you missed the debate, you can watch the RyeCast .
However, please note the video is no captioned.
You can also read the EyeOpener’s account of the debate.

Here are some pictures from the debate.

Out From Under at Canadian Human Rights Museum:
Melanie’s personal record of her visit to the CHRM sent to Catherine Frazee and Kathryn Church
To the left is a picture of Melanie Panitch.
Hi my sisters- in-arms,
I really couldn't settle to write to you till I got back home and settled in, which is today. The up side about staying with family... is the upside. The down side is no peace.
What a powerful moment to have been part of and I haven't really formulated my thoughts but perhaps, sitting down, now.
I arrived in Winnipeg to endless cut-out newspaper clippings that my dad and Ruth were keeping for me. They radiated a sense of ownership, through us, through having seen it at the ROM, and through my own excitement.
It was wonderfully generous of you to pass me the "ticket"
Kathryn, as there were many layers of meaning in my being able to be present for it. I do thank you for that.
Deciding what to wear for an outdoor, 10:30 am opening in late September Wpg was an exercise it itself. It would have been an easier decision for an evening event (black!) but I have to say the outdoors decision had its advantages. One you sat looking at that amazing architecture. Two there was a casualness in the capes and shawls, as opposed to diamonds and pearls. And of course Idle No More had a captive audience (or rather, an audience held captive) to broadcast their opposition. I was troubled that the show went on as planned without anyone nodding to the protesters. Laurie Beachell said, and I agree, the Museum ought to have filmed the protesters and used it as activist material to illuminate the ongoing struggle for human rights and recognition.
I don't know how you experienced the opening ceremony- I suspect it may have translated better via TV than live, under umbrellas. I couldn't see the stage, or the circle and the umbrellas blocked the screens. My attention veered at times to the entertainment of watching security, wondering how they would handle the protesters and watching the media hordes, all of which I could observe closely.

Learning just before the Opening Ceremony that Out From
Under was still under wraps, didn't surprise me entirely as I had read that morning only 4 of the 10 galleries were ready. I met one of the Applebaum group who was more than a little apologetic. Even weepy and perhaps a little exhausted, I wasn't sure. I know there were many installers and curators doing all-nighters to get ready. However, I did get to our
Gallery, to see "Canada's Journey" and the space is truly gorgeous. What is particularly wonderful about the location is that you can see our Gallery - which is the 2nd Gallery and therefore central and very near the beginning as you travel through the museum -and you can see it from several vantage points, notably every time you cross the zig-zagging alabaster ramp both ascending and descending.
Perhaps my most powerful response was an emotional one, at how breathtakingly beautiful is the architecture, inside and outside and the way the space is designed. The alabaster ramp is lit from inside and casts a glow like candlelight. And the other feature that stood out for me is how they have taken up human rights issues and struggles in a manner that is so thoughtfully and educationally-oriented. I didn't have enough time to study texts and displays but what I did see spoke of pedagogical expertise and knowledge of visitor engagement.
I could imagine every child in Manitoba schools - and beyond - will be trucked there over the next year, and one can only imagine what they will learn. In the Charter of Rights and
Freedoms Gallery for example, they featured 10 Supreme
Court cases and decisions. Do parents have the right to spank a child? Do women have the right over their own bodies
(Mortgentaler)? A Quebec Case on private health care. And yes, Sue Rodriguez. They give cases, opinions, both sides of the argument, visitors can vote and see how their vote compares to others, and then there is what the courts ruled.
Though the subject matter was weightily I experienced it intimately, thoughtfully, and privately. I spent most time there.
As you have probably have read there are only about 250 artifacts as most of the content is digital so can be adapted and updated easily. It’s also very interactive. There were a couple of what I thought were silly devices (to be sure school kids might love it) but then there were other spaces (an indigenous-oriented basket in the round) where whole classes could be engaged with teachers, together.

Laurie took me around. He said CCD decided 7 years ago to work with the Museum and they did, (he in particular) quite intensely. The access features (though not all the buttons were operating for eg size of print, plain language, voice activation) but I did see in many places, sign language interpretation in both official languages. According to Laurie, the Museum has gone beyond what he expected and Jim Derksen concurred.
Jutta's shop was responsible for many access innovations that reportedly go well beyond the Smithsonian. It was hard to tell on Friday. Importantly, I noted that content wise, disability issues came up numerous times and in different ways in the galleries that were open for business.
Nancy Hansen kindly organized a reception at U of St Boniface at 3:00 that afternoon to celebrate our exhibit, which included
Michelle Owen, Diane Driedger, Susan Hardie, Colleagues at U
St Boniface and Red River College, Karen Yoshida and me.
That limited the time I had to view the Museum but clearly, another trip will be necessary. They say it would be ready for the public opening next week, but as none of the niches in our gallery had been installed, I seriously doubt it. (We peaked behind all the black curtains, Nada) Maybe xmas, would be the right time, Kathryn when you are en route back to Alberta.
I kept your latest eloquent quotes in my breast pocket
Catherine, but no bites. Now we know why. So it could have been a much bigger moment for us, but now, there will need to be another. Over to one of you to be the first to view the real thing!
You were both there on either shoulder shouting your reactions but I couldn't always hear...so for what it’s worth, here are mine, and I'll look forward to yours in due course,
Melanie
To learn more…
Read Ryerson Today’s piece, Award Winning Disability Exhibit
Finds New Home .
Read the EyeOpener’s piece, Rye Exhibit Goes to New Human
Right’s Museum .

Review of Citizen Autistic
To the left is a picture of the movie, Citizen Autistic.
I unfortunately missed the great crowd sourcing campaign for the documentary "Citizen Autistic" (William Davenport, 2014), released this month. However, I was just contacted by Cinema
Libre Studio with their press release and a chance for an early online viewing to review. How could I say no?
Now, my review isn't going to be unbiased. I'm an autistic activist who works alongside and has met a good number of the people interviewed in the film. I sort of have a vested interest, even though I'm in Canada and most of the specifics take place in the United States. However, I do believe that there is an international effect to greater disability rights, and to Autistic rights, and so this film is part of that dialogue.
Onward to the film!
At about 60 minutes long, "Citizen Autistic" is rather brief, and of course, not going to cover in complete detail every and all issues in the Autistic rights movement. It does cover some of the current contenders.
It opens appropriately with the National Day of Mourning in
Washington, D.C., and goes on to cover the Judge Rotenberg
Center, Autism Speaks, and the discourse between parents and autistic adults in advocacy work.
Some points are also brought up are the similarities between the autism rights movement and gay rights movement, as well as bringing our rights into the greater disability rights movement, as well as how the Autistic community could possibly look towards Deaf culture and community as a model of operations.
I liked how autistic people interviewed presented different views, various perspectives regarding the rights models, but otherwise pretty much agreeing that this is an issue of human rights.
Points about parents and autistic adults were covered with
AASCEND, which was a very interesting piece to watch, and definitely frames the question of how the so-called conflict and division as very much a question of government funding, as well as a matter of being allies without taking over the movement.

Lastly, in some of the final comments, Ari mentions using one tenth of research funding to fund AAC devices, for communication that'll improve quality of life. That's just one tenth from research, diverted to practical applications that affect autistic lives.
So those are the main points that really stood out to me. It's a short film, as I've mentioned before, but I think it does a really good job covering various perspectives in the time frame that it has. Are there more perspectives in our community? Are there more issues that affect us? Of course, and this shouldn't be the one documentary about autism advocacy that gets made; why not make more?
But I watch this, and I nod along, because I see my community,
I see my fellows represented, I see our voices represented, and
I have hope. I have hope that this is just the start of our representation.
And I'm so going to go order a couple copies of the DVD now.
Written by current student Corina Lynn Becker.
What are Students and Alumni up to?
To the left is a picture of current student, Jennifer Aucoin with Danielle
Landry at the 2013 Student Award Ceremony.
The rise of new technology is creating new opportunities for community building. We can generate ideas, share stories, and create voices faster and easier than ever before. One of the ways that this can happen is through a blog. I've been blogging for the past two years on wordpress.com
. My blog "removing barriers" came out of my experiences in the Disability Studies. I took the information I learned in my courses and used to write about a number of things. I highlighted companies in Brantford that have customer service practices that go beyond the AODA customer service standard, and to talk about disability issues in
Brantford and Brant county. One entry was published in a local newspaper that focuses on issues.
My experience with my blog has led to opportunities to raise awareness in other ways. Writing about the issues that I discuss and write about in the program led me to start speaking about disability issues. I’ve become a member of Toastmasters
International, a public speaking and leadership organization.
I’ve spoken at the club level several times about inclusive design, people first language and media representation of people with disabilities.

Each speech I’ve given has been well received and has raised some excellent points for discussion and follow up.
Community building can take place in many different ways. By starting out with a blog, I have been able to take concepts learned at school into the community.
You can follow Jennifer’s blog Removing Barriers .
You can also join the Facebook group, Removing Barriers Brant .
Congratulations and Awards
Congratulations to alumnus Tracy Beck who was named one of
Canada’s Most Inspirational teachers. Below is a picture of Tracy
Beck.
Congratulations to all of the Disability Studies Student award winners from this summer’s ceremony!
Congratulations to current student, Brandon Arkinson is a recipient of the Success Becomes You Scholarship. In 2010
Brandon founded Hands of Heroes, a group that provides safe transport to get rural children to school in Nicaragua. He is still its president and executive director, but he has taken on other volunteer roles as well. At his co-op, he is a director and has served on several committees. While pursuing a degree in disability studies at Ryerson University, he has co-founded a chapter of the Canadian Red Cross at the school. It will be active in international emergencies, community services, and campus programs.

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Disability Studies in the News
• Read about current student, Nicole Meehan’s trip to
Peru in Ryerson Today .
• Read an interview with Liat Ben-Moshe , discuss her new work, Disability Incarcerated.
• Read about this summer’s Mad Pride in the Toronto
Star .
• Read Ryerson Today’s piece, Award Winning
Disability Exhibit Finds New Home , on Out From Under moving to the Canadian Museum of Human Rights.
• Read the EyeOpener’s piece, Rye Exhibit Goes to New
Human Right’s Museum .
• Read Kirsty Liddiard’s work being discussed in
Disabled Men Explain the Real Reasons They Paid for Sex .
• Watch the captioned video of Jay Dolamge’s lecture,
Disabled Upon Arrival .
• The School has been grieving the death of Diana
Capponi, read the Toronto Star article about her life and work.
• Check out Kirsty Liddiard’s new website.
• The School of Disability Studies gets a mention in a blog by Jonathan Balazs about his documentary The Mars
Project
• Read about the Mars Project on allmediascotland.com
• Read Catherine Frazee’s opinion piece, Assisted suicide debate masks disability prejudice in the Herald.
• Read Catherine Frazee’s piece, There can be dignity in all states of life , in the Ottawa Citizen.
• Listen to current student, Dawn Wyers, talk about the last tours at Huronia Regional Centre on CBC North.
• Check out the This is Madness! Virtual gallery .
• Check out Into and Out of the Closet , a collection of materials located at the intersection of women, disability, dress and/or fashion. Gathered by Kathryn Church and
Danielle Landry.
• Watch a short cartoon about Kirsty Liddiard’s PhD research.
• Watch (Ad)dressing our past: worn material culture as an everyday historical witness to disability on RyeCast
(Please note the video is not yet captioned).