Christine Bélanger (They/She, Iel/Elle)
@neurodivergeaunt.bsky.social
Writer-Producer-Director
Autistic, Touretter, Disabled
ServiceDog in Training Handler
Inclusion & Access Nerd
Still COVIDing
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Tkaronto, Turtle Island
Autistic, Touretter, Disabled
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Inclusion & Access Nerd
Still COVIDing
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THE IDES OF MAY - 2025 Easterseals Disability Film Challenge Entry
YouTube video by Easterseals Disability Film Challenge
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It's a privilege to make art in these times.
I had the pleasure of directing an all-star cast in "The Ides Of May"! Please watch it, Love it, comment on it, and share it!
#EDFC2025 #disabilityfilmchallenge #DisabilityFilm #DisabilityStories #filmmakers #DisabilityRepresentation
youtu.be/qlBXfR4Mr1A
I had the pleasure of directing an all-star cast in "The Ides Of May"! Please watch it, Love it, comment on it, and share it!
#EDFC2025 #disabilityfilmchallenge #DisabilityFilm #DisabilityStories #filmmakers #DisabilityRepresentation
youtu.be/qlBXfR4Mr1A
#PSA: Lung clinics are dangerous places for airborne viruses if you need to take your 3M Aura mask off for testing.
Got there early enough to witness bare faces, and make the science-based decision to NOT catch anything. I didn't refuse care, safe care was denied to me before I even got there.
Got there early enough to witness bare faces, and make the science-based decision to NOT catch anything. I didn't refuse care, safe care was denied to me before I even got there.
November 18, 2025 at 2:52 PM
#PSA: Lung clinics are dangerous places for airborne viruses if you need to take your 3M Aura mask off for testing.
Got there early enough to witness bare faces, and make the science-based decision to NOT catch anything. I didn't refuse care, safe care was denied to me before I even got there.
Got there early enough to witness bare faces, and make the science-based decision to NOT catch anything. I didn't refuse care, safe care was denied to me before I even got there.
November 18, 2025 at 2:49 PM
#PSA: Lung clinics are dangerous places for airborne viruses if you need to take your 3M Aura mask off for testing.
Got there early enough to witness bare faces, and make the science-based decision to NOT catch anything. I didn't refuse care, safe care was denied to me before I even got there.
Got there early enough to witness bare faces, and make the science-based decision to NOT catch anything. I didn't refuse care, safe care was denied to me before I even got there.
I came to 7th floor respirology
For the first appointment of the day
I saw an unmasked receptionist upon arrival
And unmasked staff coming in and out of exam room 428
I heard coughing from rm 428
And that "deep cough" from somewhere to my right.
I GTFO'd saying "this test - not happening today"
For the first appointment of the day
I saw an unmasked receptionist upon arrival
And unmasked staff coming in and out of exam room 428
I heard coughing from rm 428
And that "deep cough" from somewhere to my right.
I GTFO'd saying "this test - not happening today"
November 18, 2025 at 2:42 PM
Reposted by Christine Bélanger (They/She, Iel/Elle)
I just transferred my lung care to UHN after WCH made it clear they weren't going to accommodate me or any other patient under the AODA.
I asked for the first appointment of the day to reduce exposure to airborne pathogens. Witnessed 7-8 staff members going around without masks in (cont)
I asked for the first appointment of the day to reduce exposure to airborne pathogens. Witnessed 7-8 staff members going around without masks in (cont)
November 18, 2025 at 2:40 PM
I just transferred my lung care to UHN after WCH made it clear they weren't going to accommodate me or any other patient under the AODA.
I asked for the first appointment of the day to reduce exposure to airborne pathogens. Witnessed 7-8 staff members going around without masks in (cont)
I asked for the first appointment of the day to reduce exposure to airborne pathogens. Witnessed 7-8 staff members going around without masks in (cont)
Reposted by Christine Bélanger (They/She, Iel/Elle)
the clinic hallways, coming in and out of rooms while I was in the waiting area.
With this level of lack of care, there was no sense in bothering trying to explain to anyone on that floor, or in the hospital, for that matter, that they are putting patients at risk.
With this level of lack of care, there was no sense in bothering trying to explain to anyone on that floor, or in the hospital, for that matter, that they are putting patients at risk.
November 18, 2025 at 2:40 PM
the clinic hallways, coming in and out of rooms while I was in the waiting area.
With this level of lack of care, there was no sense in bothering trying to explain to anyone on that floor, or in the hospital, for that matter, that they are putting patients at risk.
With this level of lack of care, there was no sense in bothering trying to explain to anyone on that floor, or in the hospital, for that matter, that they are putting patients at risk.
Reposted by Christine Bélanger (They/She, Iel/Elle)
"Patient Relations": only a phone number on TW's information board. Left a message there and am sending a letter to submit to your portal, but I also deem it super important to let everyone know:
FOR #COPD AND #ASTHMA MANAGEMENT IN TORONTO: THERE'S NOWHERE LEFT TO GO FOR PREVENTIVE HEALTHCARE.
FOR #COPD AND #ASTHMA MANAGEMENT IN TORONTO: THERE'S NOWHERE LEFT TO GO FOR PREVENTIVE HEALTHCARE.
November 18, 2025 at 2:40 PM
Reposted by Christine Bélanger (They/She, Iel/Elle)
You can find current masking requirements for UHN sites at the link below. Please note that as of November 18, 2025, medical masks will be required during direct patient care and in patient waiting areas.
www.uhn.ca/PatientsFami...
www.uhn.ca/PatientsFami...
November 14, 2025 at 2:22 PM
You can find current masking requirements for UHN sites at the link below. Please note that as of November 18, 2025, medical masks will be required during direct patient care and in patient waiting areas.
www.uhn.ca/PatientsFami...
www.uhn.ca/PatientsFami...
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November 14, 2025 at 11:14 PM
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November 14, 2025 at 11:13 PM
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Reposted by Christine Bélanger (They/She, Iel/Elle)
People are *still* dying from Covid they caught at work but corporations don’t care and will do nothing about it bc they don’t have to 👇
It’s up to us to demand clean air, paid sick days, RATs, masks, WFH accommodations… or you’re just giving your corporate overlords consent to maim & murder you 😷
It’s up to us to demand clean air, paid sick days, RATs, masks, WFH accommodations… or you’re just giving your corporate overlords consent to maim & murder you 😷
And they will almost certainly not get wrongful death suits because courts have already ruled wrongful death suits due to the pandemic are too great an economic burden for the corporations and the country. But I hope someone gets clever and figures out a way around that.
November 14, 2025 at 4:25 PM
People are *still* dying from Covid they caught at work but corporations don’t care and will do nothing about it bc they don’t have to 👇
It’s up to us to demand clean air, paid sick days, RATs, masks, WFH accommodations… or you’re just giving your corporate overlords consent to maim & murder you 😷
It’s up to us to demand clean air, paid sick days, RATs, masks, WFH accommodations… or you’re just giving your corporate overlords consent to maim & murder you 😷
Reposted by Christine Bélanger (They/She, Iel/Elle)
Whatever one thinks of the Carney government’s turn to militarism - whether one loves or loathes it - making it even one iota harder for veterans to access benefits is incomprehensible and cruel, @jillmcknightdelta.bsky.social www.cbc.ca/news/politic... #cdnpoli
Jill McKnight (@jillmcknightdelta.bsky.social)
|| Lifelong Deltan ||
🍁 Member of Parliament for Delta and Minister of Veteran Affair and Associate Minister of National Defence🍁
jillmcknightdelta.bsky.social
November 14, 2025 at 4:41 PM
Whatever one thinks of the Carney government’s turn to militarism - whether one loves or loathes it - making it even one iota harder for veterans to access benefits is incomprehensible and cruel, @jillmcknightdelta.bsky.social www.cbc.ca/news/politic... #cdnpoli
Reposted by Christine Bélanger (They/She, Iel/Elle)
Did you know…?
Over 50% of autistic adults are diagnosed with an anxiety disorder in their lifetime
Causes of anxiety for autistic people include:
- sensory issues
- feeling misunderstood
- having to mask
- social challenges
- information overwhelm
- managing emotions
- unexpected changes
Over 50% of autistic adults are diagnosed with an anxiety disorder in their lifetime
Causes of anxiety for autistic people include:
- sensory issues
- feeling misunderstood
- having to mask
- social challenges
- information overwhelm
- managing emotions
- unexpected changes
November 14, 2025 at 5:01 PM
Did you know…?
Over 50% of autistic adults are diagnosed with an anxiety disorder in their lifetime
Causes of anxiety for autistic people include:
- sensory issues
- feeling misunderstood
- having to mask
- social challenges
- information overwhelm
- managing emotions
- unexpected changes
Over 50% of autistic adults are diagnosed with an anxiety disorder in their lifetime
Causes of anxiety for autistic people include:
- sensory issues
- feeling misunderstood
- having to mask
- social challenges
- information overwhelm
- managing emotions
- unexpected changes
Reposted by Christine Bélanger (They/She, Iel/Elle)
Let's pay back her generosity with lots of holiday orders. I can personally attest that her products make EXCELLENT gifts—my mom is still using her Galaxy wrist brace something like 3 years later!
I decided to eat the costs for the transportation, duties and other fees I incurred. So I won't be raising prices. I know how hard times are right now. I want as many people to be able to afford my products.
November 14, 2025 at 2:20 AM
Let's pay back her generosity with lots of holiday orders. I can personally attest that her products make EXCELLENT gifts—my mom is still using her Galaxy wrist brace something like 3 years later!
Reposted by Christine Bélanger (They/She, Iel/Elle)
If you need another reason wealthy ppl should not exist , here you go
www.thetimes.com/world/europe...
www.thetimes.com/world/europe...
Wealthy foreigners ‘paid for chance to shoot civilians in Sarajevo’
An Italian writer says he has uncovered evidence that Italians paid Bosnian Serb forces for ‘human safaris’ during the siege in the Balkan Wars
www.thetimes.com
November 13, 2025 at 4:09 PM
If you need another reason wealthy ppl should not exist , here you go
www.thetimes.com/world/europe...
www.thetimes.com/world/europe...
They also seem to think all those unpaid hours we spend educating them because we *have to*, we're happy to volunteer, because let's face it, we have SO MUCH energy to spare!
I find myself increasingly wondering how able bodied people appear to believe that being disabled is"easy."
Getting accommodations in school, uni and/or work: easy, a breeze, even!
Getting a doctor to write you a certificate supporting your needs: EASY!
Working from home: EASY!
Getting accommodations in school, uni and/or work: easy, a breeze, even!
Getting a doctor to write you a certificate supporting your needs: EASY!
Working from home: EASY!
November 13, 2025 at 11:33 PM
They also seem to think all those unpaid hours we spend educating them because we *have to*, we're happy to volunteer, because let's face it, we have SO MUCH energy to spare!
Reposted by Christine Bélanger (They/She, Iel/Elle)
I find myself increasingly wondering how able bodied people appear to believe that being disabled is"easy."
Getting accommodations in school, uni and/or work: easy, a breeze, even!
Getting a doctor to write you a certificate supporting your needs: EASY!
Working from home: EASY!
Getting accommodations in school, uni and/or work: easy, a breeze, even!
Getting a doctor to write you a certificate supporting your needs: EASY!
Working from home: EASY!
November 13, 2025 at 6:03 PM
I find myself increasingly wondering how able bodied people appear to believe that being disabled is"easy."
Getting accommodations in school, uni and/or work: easy, a breeze, even!
Getting a doctor to write you a certificate supporting your needs: EASY!
Working from home: EASY!
Getting accommodations in school, uni and/or work: easy, a breeze, even!
Getting a doctor to write you a certificate supporting your needs: EASY!
Working from home: EASY!
Reposted by Christine Bélanger (They/She, Iel/Elle)
What the Epstein files show is the *solidarity* of many men-across class, race, religion, profession & party affiliation-in the global political project of keeping the boot on women's necks.
People have no problem understanding class solidarity among the rich. Why can't they see gender solidarity?
People have no problem understanding class solidarity among the rich. Why can't they see gender solidarity?
Like I dunno, maybe the reason it took a lady to break open the story of all the men protecting the dude trafficking underage girls is because the male journos were all emailing him making jokes about it?
November 12, 2025 at 9:09 PM
What the Epstein files show is the *solidarity* of many men-across class, race, religion, profession & party affiliation-in the global political project of keeping the boot on women's necks.
People have no problem understanding class solidarity among the rich. Why can't they see gender solidarity?
People have no problem understanding class solidarity among the rich. Why can't they see gender solidarity?
Reposted by Christine Bélanger (They/She, Iel/Elle)
Canada is the only G7 country whose greenhouse gas emissions have increased since 1990.
thetyee.ca/Analysis/202...
thetyee.ca/Analysis/202...
How Canada Thumbs Its Nose at the Global Climate Summit | The Tyee
We used to pledge lower emissions. Now we push for higher oil production.
thetyee.ca
November 12, 2025 at 5:46 PM
Canada is the only G7 country whose greenhouse gas emissions have increased since 1990.
thetyee.ca/Analysis/202...
thetyee.ca/Analysis/202...
Reposted by Christine Bélanger (They/She, Iel/Elle)
How is “please give lift priority to people who cannot take the stairs” not common knowledge? Six times today I have had to either advocate for my own use or sit and wait for people to decide to do the right thing.
November 13, 2025 at 1:02 PM
How is “please give lift priority to people who cannot take the stairs” not common knowledge? Six times today I have had to either advocate for my own use or sit and wait for people to decide to do the right thing.
November 13, 2025 at 10:12 AM
Reposted by Christine Bélanger (They/She, Iel/Elle)
The greatest trick the devil ever pulled was successfully portraying white supremacy as the exclusive province of the poor and the uncultured.
November 12, 2025 at 8:20 PM
The greatest trick the devil ever pulled was successfully portraying white supremacy as the exclusive province of the poor and the uncultured.
Reposted by Christine Bélanger (They/She, Iel/Elle)
I don’t care who you are, the one thing that links all of the -isms and bigotries together and sets them on fire is eugenics and ableism.
They’ve been playing you all the entire time. There is no progress in this country for ANYTHING without equity for disabled people.
They’ve been playing you all the entire time. There is no progress in this country for ANYTHING without equity for disabled people.
November 11, 2025 at 12:37 AM
I don’t care who you are, the one thing that links all of the -isms and bigotries together and sets them on fire is eugenics and ableism.
They’ve been playing you all the entire time. There is no progress in this country for ANYTHING without equity for disabled people.
They’ve been playing you all the entire time. There is no progress in this country for ANYTHING without equity for disabled people.
Reposted by Christine Bélanger (They/She, Iel/Elle)
@pressprogress.ca needs your solidarity and support right now more than ever
We’re raising money to pay our legal bills – and to be blunt, we’re going to need a lot of help
If you’re able, please help us out and support our Journalism Defence Fund:
pressprogress.ca/journalism-d...
We’re raising money to pay our legal bills – and to be blunt, we’re going to need a lot of help
If you’re able, please help us out and support our Journalism Defence Fund:
pressprogress.ca/journalism-d...
PressProgress: Defend Canadian Journalism
pressprogress.ca
November 7, 2025 at 2:44 PM
@pressprogress.ca needs your solidarity and support right now more than ever
We’re raising money to pay our legal bills – and to be blunt, we’re going to need a lot of help
If you’re able, please help us out and support our Journalism Defence Fund:
pressprogress.ca/journalism-d...
We’re raising money to pay our legal bills – and to be blunt, we’re going to need a lot of help
If you’re able, please help us out and support our Journalism Defence Fund:
pressprogress.ca/journalism-d...
When no one but Politically Exposed People are the funders, decision-makers and showrunners of our narratives, you get a $Tr*mp.
And Danielle Smith. And Doug Ford. And Stephen Harper. And low-key Mark Carney.
Because it's always the same wealthy ultra-conservatives who pull the shitshow strings.
And Danielle Smith. And Doug Ford. And Stephen Harper. And low-key Mark Carney.
Because it's always the same wealthy ultra-conservatives who pull the shitshow strings.
You’ve seen what’s happening in the USA
You’ve seen Donald Trump and his wealthy allies using lawsuits to harass and silence journalists
You’ve seen how groundless, billion dollar lawsuits are being weaponized against journalists, civil society groups and other democratic voices
You’ve seen Donald Trump and his wealthy allies using lawsuits to harass and silence journalists
You’ve seen how groundless, billion dollar lawsuits are being weaponized against journalists, civil society groups and other democratic voices
November 8, 2025 at 1:13 PM
When no one but Politically Exposed People are the funders, decision-makers and showrunners of our narratives, you get a $Tr*mp.
And Danielle Smith. And Doug Ford. And Stephen Harper. And low-key Mark Carney.
Because it's always the same wealthy ultra-conservatives who pull the shitshow strings.
And Danielle Smith. And Doug Ford. And Stephen Harper. And low-key Mark Carney.
Because it's always the same wealthy ultra-conservatives who pull the shitshow strings.
Narratives being controlled by mainstream media is nothing new, but so-called Canadians are numb and unaware of the dumpster fire happening RIGHT HERE, as our current media identity is constructed on comparisons to our neighbors.
This shows we're not a democracy here, either.
Wake up!
This shows we're not a democracy here, either.
Wake up!
But this lawsuit is so much bigger than me or PressProgress
This lawsuit could have chilling implications for journalism and democracy in Canada
Caylan Ford is also asking the court to protect politicians’ secrets and prevent journalists from reporting on documents leaked by whistleblowers
This lawsuit could have chilling implications for journalism and democracy in Canada
Caylan Ford is also asking the court to protect politicians’ secrets and prevent journalists from reporting on documents leaked by whistleblowers
November 8, 2025 at 1:07 PM
Narratives being controlled by mainstream media is nothing new, but so-called Canadians are numb and unaware of the dumpster fire happening RIGHT HERE, as our current media identity is constructed on comparisons to our neighbors.
This shows we're not a democracy here, either.
Wake up!
This shows we're not a democracy here, either.
Wake up!