8 articles in this issue
Stephen Fernandez
This paper attends to the making of crip performance in the 2015 production of Disabled Theater in Toronto, where eleven performers with intellectual and physical disabilities took to the stage to perform a series of dance solos set to popular music. The ... see more
Stine Hansen, K. Bruce Newbold, Robert Wilton
Immigrants account for a large proportion of Canada’s population. Despite an emphasis on immigrant health issues within the literature, there is surprisingly limited attention given to disability within the immigrant population, although differential prev... see more
Joanna Rankin
Examining how readers of popular fiction respond to characters with disabilities and characters immersed in the lives of characters with disabilities, this paper serves to contribute to understandings of the meanings that readers ascribe to disability in ... see more
John Aspler, Natalie Zizzo, Nina Di Pietro, Eric Racine
People with fetal alcohol spectrum disorder (FASD), a complex and controversial neurodevelopmental disability caused by alcohol exposure in the womb, report experiences of stigma in different parts of their lives. The media, sometimes central to how a pub... see more
Corinne Doria
This article is a study of the memoirs of three Canadian ex-servicemen who were blinded during the First and Second World Wars. It inquires autobiographical accounts as a source to understand disability both at an individual and a social level. I argue th... see more
Mikhel Hudrlik
Portrayals of disability in mainstream culture and media, and questions about the implications they have for disabled people, are not new. However, in The Fantasy of Disability: Images of loss in popular culture, Jeffrey Preston takes those questions to n... see more
Kristin Snoddon
I am one of a handful of signing deaf tenure-track or tenured professors in Canada. To my knowledge, I am also the only one who teaches a stand-alone university course in Deaf Studies that is not part of a sign language interpreter or teacher of the... see more
W. John Williamson
Rethinking Disability Theory and Practice: Challenging Essentialism is both impressive and inclusive in the range of topics it addresses.