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Faith Clarke asks potential home care staff to imagine dropping through a wormhole and landing on another … Read more
Marilyn Dolmage never met her brother Robert, who died at Huronia Regional Centre at the age of 8, but she ended up working at the same institution before becoming a staunch advocate for inclusion. Victoria Freeman was haunted all her life by her sister Martha’s removal from the family at … Read more
Victoria Freeman’s book “A World without Martha: A Memoir of Sisters, Disability and Difference” is fundamentally about what it means to live in a world where only some people are deemed worthy of love.
It is not a Hollywood disability story, with redemption and acceptance descending to free us from … Read more
Until everyone is treated equally, no one is treated equally.
In this episode, my guest Terra Smith and I talk about our equality blind spots – and I even reveal one of my own with a slip up!
We also talk about her journey advocating for her son after he … Read more
Imagine if everywhere you went, people only wanted to talk about the things you couldn’t do and the kind of person you aren’t.
That’s what medical professionals often do to our kids with disabilities, right? Here’s the “catalogue of doom”. The list of things your child will never be able … Read more
Have you ever been in a conversation where you realized that your assumptions – which seem obvious – are not the assumptions the other person is working with?
In this episode, I’m talking with Samantha Noyek, Claire Davies, and Nora Fayed about the importance of researching the obvious, the idea … Read more
“Can we realize that even though we’re loving our children, we can be doing them so much harm when we don’t address those beliefs, those worldviews, and those expectations: the biases that we have?”
La Shanda Sugg, LPC is a trauma specializing therapist and training consultant. Her trauma expertise and … Read more
Jean-Luc Martel introduces himself well.
“That’s Jean-Luc, like Captain Picard for you Star Trek fans out there. I’ve got Asperger’s, I’ve had all my life. That’s the way it works, people.”
“I very happily describe myself as a lifelong rebel because the system never had any room for me.”
This … Read more
What would happen for our kids with disabilities if we were able to centre purpose over problem solving? And what does that even mean?
Sarah Buffie and I discuss this, and so much more on this podcast covering trauma for people with disabilities and how connection, affection and direction are … Read more
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Mary Vicario wasn’t supposed to be born. Doctors thought she was a tumour in her mother’s abdomen and then at 6 months gestation, they realized the tumour had a heartbeat. By then, they had given her mother so … Read more
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