Deborah Stienstra

A Danish Program Takes On the Stigma of Mental Illness

A Danish Program Takes On the Stigma of Mental Illness www.nytimes.com/2026/03/03/h...

Colleges See Spike in Students With Disabilities, Including Elite Schools

Colleges See Spike in Students With Disabilities, Including Elite Schools www.nytimes.com/2026/03/02/u...

Announcing "A Disability Livelihoods Approach to Including Communities Meaningfully in Development,” a new publication from the @sshrc-crsh.canada.ca -funded Disability and Livelihoods in Canada project.

Learn more about this chapter: bit.ly/4cj1Ac3

#LivelihoodsCanada @dstienstra.bsky.social

New Products from Statistics Canada Highlight the Diverse Experiences of Persons with Disabilities December 3, 2025, was International Day of Persons with Disabilities. To commemorate the occasion, Statistics Canada released a series of products to help inform progress on the Accessible Can…

On December 3, 2025, for International Day of Persons with Disabilities, Statistics Canada released a series of products that highlight the diverse experiences of persons with #disabilities in Canada.

Visit our news post to learn more: bit.ly/4advqfp

#Disability #DisabilityAwareness

In December, Disability Without Poverty hosted their 2025 research symposium!

The panel '2SLGBTQ+ People with Disabilities and Experiences of Poverty in Canada,’ presented the first national study on poverty among #2SLGBTQ+ Canadians with #disabilities. Read more: bit.ly/45LX2a5

#LivelihoodsCanada

Graphic of a person rolling in a wheelchair. A faint silhouette of the earth is in the background as well as red, green, blue, and yellow line decals. Text reads: Intersecting Agendas: Gender and Disability-Inclusive Peacebuilding at the UN.

Watch a recording of our Sept. 26 panel exploring the inclusion of persons with disabilities in UN peacebuilding initiatives!

Learn more and watch the 'Intersecting Agendas: Gender and Disability-Inclusive Peacebuilding at the UN' panel in our news post: bit.ly/4iB2din

@edid-ghdi.bsky.social

Roberta Hawkins, she is pictured wearing a forest green shirt, her complexion is light, and she has short blonde hair cut to her chin. Included is a quote from her time on the Teaching in Higher Ed podcast, where she said: We are not cogs in an institutional machine.

📢New podcast alert!

Reimagining Care cluster co-lead, Roberta Hawkins, was a guest on the @tihe.bsky.social podcast. She explored answers to questions like: How do we survive in #academia, and make it better for others?

Find more info and the full episode in our news post: bit.ly/3Xm4jJ5

Happy to share a new open-access publication: "Bringing feminist disability knowledge to Canada's global policies" doi.org/10.1177/0020... @cpsa-acsp.bsky.social @raulpachecovega.bsky.social @edid-ghdi.bsky.social @liveworkwell.bsky.social

The United Nations isn't doing enough on disability A five-year reform made important steps but progress is “extremely slow”

The United Nations isn't doing enough on disability www.disabilitydebrief.org/debrief/un-s... #a11y

There was a study that was done, which was submitted as part of this study, and it states that 88% of all Canadian faculty in universities are left-leaning and that 12% are right-leaning. Do you see an issue with that?

I'm reading the transcript of a House of Commons committee hearing about #EDI in Research

Full text: www.ourcommons.ca/documentview...

#HigherEd 🧪

Representative Vincent Ho, Richmond Hill South, is asking the USAgov-questions out loud:

This is deeply distrubing, especially as publically available data demonstrates that research proposals from many equity-deserving groups remains under-represented in Tricouncil funding.

Gender Equality: Federal Ministers Make an Announcement At a news conference in Ottawa, Finance Minister François-Philippe Champagne announces funding from the upcoming federal budget for gender equality initiatives. He is joined by Women and Gender Equal...

Here's the link: www.cpac.ca/headline-pol...

Here's the speech! www.cpac.ca/headline-pol...

New Research: The Challenges of (Re)Building Trust Post-COVID—People with disabilities and Canadian governments.

📢Recently, a team from the LWWRC, including Director
@dstienstra.bsky.social and PhD student @mariadidanieli.bsky.social, presented their paper—The Challenges of (Re)Building Trust Post-COVID: People with Disabilities and Canadian Governments.

Read more in our latest news post: bit.ly/3KXnbeF!

Intersecting Agendas: Gender and Disability-Inclusive Peacebuilding at the UN, September 26, 2025 On September 26, 2025, from 10:30AM-12:00PM ET, the Engendering Disability-Inclusive Development/Genre, handicap et développement inclusif (EDID-GHDI) partnership and Finding Their Place: The Contribu...

On September 26, 2025, @edid-ghdi.bsky.social
will co-host a virtual panel on the inclusion of persons with disabilities in United Nations peacebuilding policy and practice.

⏰: September 26, 2025, 10:30am-12pm ET
📍Virtually on Zoom

Register and learn more: bit.ly/45YcGjf!

Community-Based Inclusive Development This book analyzes underpinnings and dimensions of CBID from the intersections of disability studies, and inclusive development in the Global South.

Congratulations LWWRC director,
@dstienstra.bsky.social, GRA Kathryn Reinders, and former GRA Dilshan L. Fernando on their recent chapter, “A Disability Livelihoods Approach to Including Communities Meaningfully in Development.”

Learn more about their chapter at bit.ly/46U6c5U!

Reinstate the dedicated WAGE cabinet position, an important national machinery central to gains made in women's rights and gender equality! We can’t risk any backpedalling!

Read the joint release:
https://tinyurl.com/49pyx9np

Check out this resource:
https://tinyurl.com/s489j8xc

Mark Carney wants to make Canada an energy superpower — but what will be sacrificed for that goal? How can the Liberal Party’s energy ambitions support just and equitable energy transitions?

CRIAW-ICREF's Jane Stinson along with researchers Leah Levac and Leah Fusco have written an op-ed about GBA Plus and impact assessments in the development of Canada's energy sector.

Click here to read this editorial:

‘I’m still sick. I’m still disabled. But I’m proud of my body’: Frances Ryan’s manifesto for disabled women Women with disabilities are the biggest minority group in the world, but are still shut out of society. In an extract from her new book, the writer reveals how that is changing – and what more needs t...

"Disabled women are making waves like never before, ushering in societal change through politics, business, acting, science, sport, music, journalism and more." www.theguardian.com/world/2025/a...

At the Countering Policy Exclusions: Centring Accessibility to Advance the Right to Housing panel, join civil society leaders and researchers to discuss how people with disabilities - especially women and gender-diverse folks - are being failed by, and are responding to, housing failures in Ontario.

Join us April 10, from 12:30pm to 2pm ET for “Countering Policy Exclusions: Centring accessibility to advance the right to housing.” We’ll hear from panelists Mike Greer, Roz Gunn, and Alex Nelson. To find out more about this awesome event, visit tr.ee/b83cF9.

Friends, more analysis to come but: the UN #CRPD Concluding Observations re: Canada are out. Some important commentary on housing, prisons, education, and institutionalizations AND Canada’s Arms Sales to Israel: tbinternet.ohchr.org/_layouts/15/...

#disabilityjustice

New Report Alert: Canadian Research Institute for the Advancement of Women On January 25, 2025, the Canadian Research Institute for the Advancement of Women (CRIAW-ICREF) published a report called Harnessing the potential for a more equitable future in Newfoundland and Labra...

Congratulations Leah Fusco, Jane Stinson, @dstienstra.bsky.social, and @leahlevac.bsky.social on their new report on applying Gender-Based Analysis Plus (GBA Plus) to offshore wind development. Find out more in our news post: bit.ly/4kHn0RP

Join us online for this important conversation about disability, international commitments and countering exclusion.

Join us for an important discussion!

Love this zine about #postsecondary #universities and how to make them more caring places bit.ly/4htd2kV

CCRW’s Disability Confidence Toolkit The Canadian Council on Rehabilitation and Work (CCRW) recently released their Disability Confidence Toolkit for employers, providing valuable information on how employers can effectively embed disabi...

@ccrworg.bsky.social has a new disability toolkit for employers to learn how to make their workplace more accessible! The Disability Confidence Toolkit helps employers move from a place of accommodation compliance to confidence. Find out more information in our news article: bit.ly/3CMXbP9

Welcome! You are invited to join a webinar: IDEA Speaker Series: Uncovering Episodic Disability; An Intersectional Perspective On Accommodation and Belonging. After registering, you will receive a con... Over 2 million individuals in Canada are living with episodic disabilities, yet awareness of the term remain low. These disabilities ranging from long-COVID and multiple sclerosis to arthritis, HIV, ...

Vraie-Idea is hosting “Speaker Series: Uncovering Episodic Disability; An Intersectional Perspective On Accommodation and Belonging.” On January 31, 12pm-1pm EST on Zoom, Ingrid Palmer will present on episodic disabilities. Learn more and register at bit.ly/3PIhLmV.

YouTube video by APTN News Oneida woman bridges gap between the deaf and hearing worlds | APTN News

Marsha Ireland is bridging both the deaf and hearing worlds while tackling inclusivity, Indigenous rights and revitalization in four different languages.

New (free) e-learning course on Disability-Inclusive Disaster Risk Reduction (DiDRR) developed by CBM Global, the Africa Disability Forum and the UN Office for Disaster Risk Reduction kayaconnect.org/course/info....

Change-Making in Disability, Peace, and Development: Lessons from the Life and Legacy of Steven Estey In this chapter, we celebrate the life and work of Steven Estey—a prominent Canadian and transnational disability activist who spent his adult life making change at the nexus of human rights, pe...

Congratulations! LWWRC director @dstienstra.bsky.social and David R. Black recently published their chapter “Change-Making in Disability, Peace, and Development: Lessons from the Life and Legacy of Steven Estey” in "Hand in Hand? Canada at the Human Rights and Peacebuilding Nexus" - bit.ly/3ByvDMU.