It's official, folks. Canada has abanadoned its feminist foreign policy www.theglobeandmail.com/world/articl...

Everywhere universities are under assault. Some are shooting themselves. www.bbc.com/news/article...

Great to co author with an amazing doctoral student Darby Babin !

Join @ottawahealthlaw.ca Oct 2–3 for a national conference: Reframing Mental Health Law: Emerging Controversies and Cross-Sector Perspectives. Keynotes: @Kwame_McKenzie & Dr. Tracy Vaillancourt. Student rates available. Hope to see you there! www.ottawahealthlaw.ca/conferences/...

At a time when LGBTQI+ rights are under attack around the world, some countries are decriminalizing same-sex relations. My analysis of the case of Mauritius is now available on the Politics, Groups, and Identities journal website. Free to download. 🏳️‍🌈 🏳️‍⚧️ 🌍 doi.org/10.1080/2156...

Do you love what we do, pals? It's time to take your shot to join our Board of Directors! We're particularly looking for someone who can strengthen our fundraising/grant-making work (so we can keep the lights on and do the stuff we need to do!) More here: www.djno.ca/post/joi...

Thanks so much for including our piece, "Emotions and anti-carceral advocacy in Canada: ‘All of the anger this creates in our bodies is also a tool to kill us’" on your student reading list!

US Secretary of State Marco Rubio hailed the end of the US Agency for International Development (USAID) as a new analysis found that its demolition could contribute to 14 million deaths in the next five years.

Thrilled to share this new article I co-authored with Megan Linton! We explore the ways that Canadian disability housing policy is 'haunted' by systemic ableism. Read it to discover how Canada continues to exclude, eliminate and extract from people with disabilities through supported housing.

@cambup-polsci.cambridge.org #OpenAccess A Haunting Legacy: Systemic Ableism in Canadian Housing Policy for People Labelled with Intellectual & Developmental Disabilities cup.org/4kEVc05 Daniel Dickson @usask.bsky.social & Megan Linton @carleton.ca #FirstView @morsini.bsky.social

excellent piece on systemic ableism in housing policy by Dickson and Linton. open access. www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

With Canada's federal election less than a week away, where do the various political parties stand on foreign aid and what should we expect once the winner is declared? For my answers to those questions, check out my new blog post. www.mcleodgroup.ca/2025/04/elec...

38 of the 43. "38 of 43 experts cut last month from boards that review science and research in NIH laboratories are female, Black or Hispanic. "The scientists typically serve five-year terms and were not given a reason for their dismissal..." www.washingtonpost.com/science/2025...

RFK Jr. says there are no autistic poets, so we interviewed one. Hear from Elizabeth McClellan, @popelizbet.bsky.social, an award-winning poet, attorney, and legal educator based in Memphis, Tennessee.

Project MUSE - Native American and Indigenous Studies: Volume 12, Issue 1, Spring 2025 muse.jhu.edu/issue/54601

Can you win a Pulitzer because someone put you on a chat group by mistake?

Who could have predicted this other than everyone

When the Pine Needles Fall, EllenGabriel and my's new book, was #2 on the independent bookseller's bestseller list for January! Thank you all for supporting this book, and shop local/independent when you can: btlbooks.com/book/when-th...

Today is the release date for the French edition of Ellen Gabriel and my’s book, When the Pine Needles Fall! www.editions-rm.ca/livres/quand...

The Institute of Feminist and Gender Studies welcomes Katsi’tsakwas Ellen Gabriel as our keynote for the Shirley Greenberg Annual Lecture. She is joined by Professor Audra Simpson (Columbia University). Free. ASL provided. Registration link here: forms.office.com/r/jxNWPaYXhN

Should I use this as an opportunity to start over and actually be A Professional Adult on this app? Hard to say! But if you like open access academic articles, here’s one from me to you. And yes I did cite my fave film critic @judysquirrels.bsky.social ✨ journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

Ontario universities are cut to the bone. They're being financially strangled by the Ford government, via a merciless, stupid tuition freeze and the lowest per student funding in Canada, ever. If this gov't is re-elected, one of the best uni systems in the world is dead.

Looking for some high impact research to read over the holidays? 🎁Check out our most cited papers of 2024. They’re free to access until the end of Jan 😍 policyandpoliticsblog.com/2024/12/11/t... #publicpolicy #PolicySky #PoliSci #PolicyProcess

Free access to our article until Jan 31st. doi.org/10.1332/0305...

Over the last few months, we have hosted several focus groups to connect with Black & racialized disabled folks across Ontario to better understand what their experiences with the healthcare sector have been like. We are hosting two virtual focus groups in the month of December to further this work!

My departing remarks, delivered at a farewell event in June 2023. @carolmliao.bsky.social's been trying to get these out of me for a year now.

Tried to roundup a list of folks in critical disability studies & disability justice work that I know of who are already on here, please lmk if there's someone else i should add! go.bsky.app/NJWgurk