CAN (LET’S) is often contacted by students who would like to learn more about the work CAN (LET’S) does and how they can become involved. We enjoy these conversations, especially as we have a lot to learn from those studying to come into this field. Most recently, we met with a first year MCRP (Master of Community and Regional Planning) student at the University of British Columbia. They said that, as a non-disabled person, they are “not aware of a lot of the barriers that disabled people encounter as they navigate the city, but I would like to be involved in the process to improve cities to be more accessible. I am interested in the work CAN (LET’S) does for the community and its origins in transit, and am wondering what the process is to participate in a workshop or become involved in CAN’s (LET’S) work.” We had a lovely conversation with this student. They asked if we could provide any resources for them to learn more.
On Twitter, I suggest following The Tweedy Mutant (@the_tweedy), SinsInvalid (@SinsInvalid), Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha (@thellpsx), Sami Schalk (@DrSamiSchalk), Alice Wong 王美華 (@SFdirewolf)
The Tweedy Mutant also created and tweeted this list of articles to read:
- Capitalism and Disability by Marta Russell
- No Right to Be Idle by Sarah Rose
- Disability Incarcerated (and/or Decarcerating Disability?) by Liat Ben-Moshe
- Enforcing Normalcy by Lennard Davis
- Defectives in the Land by Douglas Baynton
- Those They Called Idiots by Simon Jarrett
- Care Work by Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha
- Lots of Sins Invalid materials
- Academic Ableism by Jay Dolmage
- Disability and the Body in Bill Hughes (in Disability Studies Today, Eds. Barnes et al.)
Magazine links to check out:
Abilities magazine
Transition magazine (Disability Alliance BC)
Briarpatch Disability Justice edition