Cumulative and Cascading Impacts of Invisibility: An Intersectional Approach to Understanding the Housing Experiences of Canadians With Disabilities During COVID-19

A collaborative chapter examining the unique and heightened negative impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic for disabled people and housing in Canada. This chapter illustrates the impacts housing choices have on how disabled people lived, lived well, and how they faced barriers to living well during the COVID-19 pandemic. Available here. 

Women, Girls, and Non-binary people with Disabilities and the National Action Plan to End Gender-Based Violence

DAWN Canada has released its comprehensive report "Women, Girls, and Non-binary people with Disabilities and the National Action Plan to End Gender-Based Violence" which seeks to inform Canada's National Action Plan to end gender-based violence. I was the lead researcher in this report which seeks to address gaps related to disabled women, girls, and non-binary people and suggests policies to fill these gaps as well as the need for systemic change. 

A Qualitative Look at Serious Legal Problems for People with Disabilities in Central Canada

The Department of Justice has juts released this report in partnership with DAWN Canada researchers (myself and Sonia Alimi). The report is available in both English and French on the Justice Canada website. 

Highlights from this important research include that persons with disabilities in Canada regularly encounter serious legal issues and that the system remains full of barriers for individuals. The report explores the most prevalent legal issues participants shared, how they navigated the system and the supports they required, and the impacts of these systemic barriers on individuals. 

New Canadian Research on COVID-19, Disability, and Policy Responses

 The University of Guelph's Live Work Well Research Centre  has just released a new research report. 

'Disability Inclusion Analysis of Lessons Learned and Best Practices of the Government of Canada’s Response to the COVID-19 Pandemic' can be accessed here. 

I am lucky to have been a part of such an amazing research team. 

 

Normalizing death in the age of 

COVID-19

This piece, co-authored with Michael Orsini, explores COVID-19 deaths and the collective forgetting of these lives. We explore what communities have been hit the hardest by COVID-19 and question what needs to happen so we see all lives as worth living. 

Resetting Normal: Systemic Gender-Based Violence and the Pandemic 

The Canadian Women's Foundation recently released a series of reports exploring gender equality and the COVID-19 pandemic in Canada. I was honoured to work with DAWN Canada on their contribution to the third report in this series, which can be found here. 

 

Rooting Resilience – Peer support for women with disabilities in Canada: A Needs Assessment

DAWN Canada  has an exciting new project examining the potential for peer support in supporting women with disabilities around GBV. You can learn more about their work here. You can also read the needs assessment that helped shape project activities here.