Great looking one-day symposium: Queer Utopias.CFP: Camps, (In)justice, and Solidarity in the Americas – Commemoration of the 20th Anniversary of the Guantánamo Bay Detention Camps. CFP: Kinship in the Fiction of N. K. Jemisin: Relations of Power and Resistance. CFP: SFRA Panels at ASLE 21. CFP: Migration and Exile in Science Fiction. CFP: Black Feminism on the Edge. CFP: The Routledge Handbook…
“Does your budget truly necessitate me giving up my life in order for you to achieve your financial goals? Was there truly no other way than at the expense of disabled lives, including my own?”
This is a hideous indictment, & to many in Canada, not news at all.
Quote Tweet Maclean’s Magazine @macleans Gabrielle Peters: Many disabled Canadians have been forced into poverty by insufficient income support—especially true during the pandemic. Some are considering MAID because they “simply cannot afford to keep on living.” (includes the link above)
Reply from Natalie Morrill There is something utterly horrific in the system that asserts, in tones of compassion, “You wouldn’t be suffering this way if you didn’t exist.”
So much depends on whether our leaders & their constituents do or don’t listen to disabled people in this period in history.]
Since some people have asked, this piece is indeed also intended to be directed at the premiers of provinces. There is plenty enough blame to go around. All levels of govt from coast to coast have failed disabled people.
The provincial govts have maintained way below the poverty line disability benefit rates.
The pandemic has worsened the situation so that barely survivable poverty has become less so.
The federal govt’s response to this was a one-time $600 payment available to fraction of ppl
