Resources & Links
Accessible Activism - by Anna Brenner, Andrea K, Shelby Lorman, Casey Metz Wait, Mariah Person, Mary @invalid__art, Shelby @AllKindsAccessibility, Brendan Tang, Leigh Witzling.
Accessibility and Organizing Toolkit - developed by CRIP in partnership with Youth Line.
Access Intimacy: The Missing Link - by Mia Mingus.
Access is Love Reading List - compiled by Sandy Ho, Mia Mingus, and Alice Wong for the #AccessIsLove project.
Alt Text as Poetry - a collaboration between Bojana Coklyat and Shannon Finnegan.
Autistics for Autistics Ontario (A4A) - Canada’s national autistic self-advocacy organization.
Bodies in Translation - a research project that aims to cultivate and research activist art (disability art, Deaf art, Mad art, aging and e/Elder art, fat art, from a decolonizing and cripped lens).
Centre for Independent Living in Toronto (CILT) - a community-based organization run by people with disabilities for people with disabilities.
Creative Users Project - a disability-led national arts organization that broadens knowledge about accessible practice, increases opportunities for artists, and helps Deaf and disabled artists.
#CripRitual - a virtual exhibition of artworks exploring themes of disability culture and ritual.
Critical Design Lab - a multi-disciplinary arts and design collaborative centered in disability culture and crip technoscience.
Deaf Spectrum - elevating and creating opportunities for Deaf arts and culture in Canada.
Disability at Home - created by Laura Mauldin, this website documents the ingenuity and creativity that caregivers and disabled people use every day to make home accessible.
Disability Justice Audit Tool - written by Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha and envisioned by Stacey Park Milbern and Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha.
Disability Justice Network of Ontario - creating a world where people with disabilities are free to be.
Disability Visibility Project - by Alice Wong, an online community dedicated to creating, sharing, and amplifying disability media and culture.
Disabled And Here Collection - a library of free and inclusive stock images celebrating disabled Black, Indigenous, people of color (BIPOC).
Disability Matters - a toolkit by Hannah Wise to help newsrooms better serve the disability community.
Hands of Fire - a sculpture group for blind and visually impaired individuals in Toronto.
Intersections of Disability Justice and Transformative Justice - a video featuring Elliott Fukui and Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha.
Mental Health Literacy Guide for Autism - developed by the York University Developmental Disabilities and Mental Health Lab as part of the Autism Mental Health Literacy Project (AM-HeLP).
ReelAbilities Film Festival Toronto - the Canadian chapter of the ReelAbilities Film Festival – the largest film festival in North America showcasing narrative and documentary films about Deaf and disability cultures.
Salty Magazine - offers free one-year memberships to Black, Indigenous and other people of colour living with disabilities.
Searchable Online Accommodation Resource (SOAR) - a system created by the Job Accommodation Network (JAN) that lets users explore various accommodation options for people with disabilities in work and educational settings.
Sins Invalid - a disability justice based performance project that incubates and celebrates artists with disabilities, centralizing artists of color and LGBTQ / gender-variant artists as communities who have been historically marginalized.
Tangled Art + Disability - Canada’s disability-led art gallery + non-profit dedicated to showcasing disability art and advancing accessible curatorial practices.
The Film Festival Guide to Access - PWYC resource by Creative Users Project and Inside Out Film Festival.
The Hautist - a trans/crip-led collective of autistics, in exploration of identity and community through art, wonder, pleasure, and rest.
Wordgathering: A Journal of Disability Poetry and Literature - a digital journal of disability poetry, literature, and the arts.