Dr. Deborah Stienstra @dstienstra.bsky.social

Sukaina is a pediatric occupational therapist and Chief Executive Officer of @smilecanadaorg. Her new book, Untold Stories of Disablement and Displacement: Syrian refugees in Canada, centers the stories of Syrian refugees with disabilities. Check it out: bit.ly/49rngjb

Today we mark the International Day of Persons with Disabilities by celebrating dignity, rights, and full participation for all. We are invited to reimagine how we understand bodies and minds beyond conventional norms: uoguel.ph/disabilityarts uoguel.ph/lww

DAWN Canada continues to push for intersectional, cross-disability approaches to end GBV. Help us raise awareness and support safety for all. 16 Days of #ActivismAgainstGenderBased Violence, and the 12 Days of #ActionAgainstViolenceAgainstWomen #EndGBV #Genderbasedviolence

Happy to share a new open-access publication: "Bringing feminist disability knowledge to Canada's global policies" doi.org/10.1177/002070… @cpsa_acsp @edid_ghdi @Live_Work_Well @GuelphPOLS

The LWWRC joins our @UofG community in welcoming Kerryann Ifill for the 2025 Hopper Lecture! We are looking forward to hearing such a powerful disability advocate discuss the necessity of #inclusion when planning for societal growth.

📢Recently, a team from the LWWRC, including Director @dstienstra and PhD student @mdidanieli, 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!

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: tinyurl.com/49pyx9np Check out this resource: tinyurl.com/s489j8xc

“There should be an intersectional lens in terms of looking at disability.” 💬 At the #GDS2025, we spoke with Shiela May Aggarao, our CBID co-trainer from the Philippines, on advocacy, feminist perspectives, and why sustainable funding & accountability matter. #CommitToChange

"Disabled women are making waves like never before, ushering in societal change through politics, business, acting, science, sport, music, journalism and more." theguardian.com/world/2025/apr…

More than 700 million women and girls worldwide are living with a disability, often facing multiple forms of discrimination & stigma. As the Global Disability Summit continues in Germany, @UN_Women has 5 key actions to promote disability inclusion. unwomen.org/en/articles/ex…

Women and girls with disabilities face multiple & intersecting forms of discrimination and stigma. We are at the Global Disability Summit on the 2nd and 3rd of April, advocating for their meaningful participation in the decisions that impact their lives. unwo.men/OJNe50VpN5v

@DAWNRAFHCanada Is there a link to join this?

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 @Alexx_nels. 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/tr…

Join us online for this important conversation about disability, international commitments and countering exclusion.

@ChristophLyon Scott Kim & I analyzed Canada’s #MAID regime, as one of”Provider Concentration, Policy Capture, and Need for Reform” #d1e142" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.10…

If you have a disability and are experiencing or have experienced homelessness or faced eviction, the CCHR is doing some research. If you are in one or have lived in one of the Provinces in the link, please reach out to them to share your story. housingrightscanada.com/housing-and-di…

So this is pretty cool, some folks at the University of Guelph approached me and asked me to write their post for International Disability Day (which is also known as “International Day for Persons with Disabilities”, but if you read the article you’ll find out why a lot of us don’t like to call it that). The article is titled “Stop Calling Me Differently-abled”. If you’d like to read it you can find it here: bit.ly/3ZwIwAh

Postdoctoral researcher opportunity deadline Nov. 29 2024