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In their institutional ethnog. “An International Conversation on Disabled Children’s Childhoods: Theory, Ethics and Methods,” Underwood, Moreno Angarita, Curran, Runswick-Cole & Wertlieb query the ethics of discourses on early child development w/in historical and current global inequalities.
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An International Conversation on Disabled Children’s Childhoods: Theory, Ethics and Methods
This article brings together members of the International Advisory Committee for the Inclusive Early Childhood Service System (IECSS) project, a longitudinal study of interactions with institutional p...
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November 12, 2025 at 2:49 PM
If you missed adding your work in the past, you can fill out the following Google Form: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

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Disability Studies Publications by Untenured Academics
In 2019, Contingent Magazine published a list of peer-reviewed books and journal articles written by non-Tenure Track academics. WHAT AN AMAZING IDEA! You can read about it at the following link: http...
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November 10, 2025 at 3:12 PM
You can access “Navigating Post-Secondary Institutions in Ontario with a Learning Disability: The Pursuit of Accommodations” at the following link: cjds.uwaterloo.ca/index.php/cj...

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Navigating Post-Secondary Institutions in Ontario with a Learning Disability: The Pursuit of Accommodations
Students with learning disabilities (LDs) face numerous challenges as they navigate their way through post-secondary institutions in Ontario. Through an institutional ethnographic analysis, this paper...
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November 6, 2025 at 3:37 PM
Cameron McKenzie uses institutional ethnography to contextualize their lived experience of having a learning disability in post-secondary institutions within the current neoliberal environment. 1/2
November 6, 2025 at 3:37 PM
“Navigating International Sign in Glocal Deaf Networks: Developing Deaf-centred Methodologies in Transnational Deaf Community Spaces” is an autoethnographic exploration of the experiences of a Brazilian deaf PhD student in Sweden who conducted fieldwork in Lithuania's deaf community spaces.
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Navigating International Sign in Glocal Deaf Networks: Developing Deaf-centred Methodologies in Transnational Deaf Community Spaces
This study is an autoethnographic exploration of the experiences of a Brazilian deaf PhD student based in Sweden who conducted fieldwork in Lithuania's deaf community spaces. It seeks to demonstrate t...
cjds.uwaterloo.ca
October 30, 2025 at 3:43 PM
You can read the essay, titled “Embodiment and the Disabled (Extraordinary) Body: Carol Chase Bjerke’s Hidden Agenda and the External Internality of Ostomies” at the following link: cjds.uwaterloo.ca/index.php/cj...

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Embodiment and the Disabled (Extraordinary) Body: Carol Chase Bjerke’s Hidden Agenda and the External Internality of Ostomies
This essay uses critical phenomenology to examine Carol Chase Bjerke’s ostomy art in Hidden Agenda. With an ostomy, the intestine erupts past the skin barrier and interrupts everyday life. Bjerke’s os...
cjds.uwaterloo.ca
October 28, 2025 at 4:11 PM
Heather Twele’s essay uses critical phenomenology to examine Carol Chase Bjerke’s ostomy art in Hidden Agenda. The essay also meditates on the phenomenological strangeness of Twele touching their own ostomy for the first time.

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Embodiment and the Disabled (Extraordinary) Body: Carol Chase Bjerke’s Hidden Agenda and the External Internality of Ostomies
This essay uses critical phenomenology to examine Carol Chase Bjerke’s ostomy art in Hidden Agenda. With an ostomy, the intestine erupts past the skin barrier and interrupts everyday life. Bjerke’s os...
cjds.uwaterloo.ca
October 28, 2025 at 4:11 PM
“Disability, Sovereignty, and the Politics of Death: Interpreting MAID (Medical Assistance in Dying) Through a Critical Disability Studies Lens” is available at the following link: cjds.uwaterloo.ca/index.php/cj...

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Disability, Sovereignty, and the Politics of Death: Interpreting MAID (Medical Assistance in Dying) Through a Critical Disability Studies Lens
If there is nothing natural about death, in what ways do we socially organize death? Given that disability is regarded as a memento mori, what might disability studies tell us (i.e. what can we learn)...
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October 24, 2025 at 6:46 PM
Hilary Pearson considers how we interpret the meaning of death through a close reading analysis of select cultural representations to better understand what we may reveal and examine normative conceptions of life, death, and disability.

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Disability, Sovereignty, and the Politics of Death: Interpreting MAID (Medical Assistance in Dying) Through a Critical Disability Studies Lens
If there is nothing natural about death, in what ways do we socially organize death? Given that disability is regarded as a memento mori, what might disability studies tell us (i.e. what can we learn)...
cjds.uwaterloo.ca
October 24, 2025 at 6:46 PM
In “An Oral History of The Electrical Eggs: Science Fiction, Disability Activism, and Fan Conventions,” Eric Vero interviews two members of The Electrical Eggs, Samanda B. Jeude’s grassroots organization that advocated for science fiction fans in the southern US. 1/2
October 20, 2025 at 3:50 PM
Second is Edward Timke’s review of Ella Houston's Advertising Disability (2024): cjds.uwaterloo.ca/index.php/cj...

Third is W. John Williamson and Em Williamson’s review of Nikki Reimer's No Town Called We (2023): cjds.uwaterloo.ca/index.php/cj...

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October 17, 2025 at 7:06 PM
Three book reviews were published in the newest issue of CJDS.

First is Moira Armstrong’s review of Amanda Cachia's Smoke and Mirrors Exhibition, Zimmerli Art Museum (2024): cjds.uwaterloo.ca/index.php/cj...

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Review of Ella Houston's Advertising Disability (2024)
As someone who has lived with a hearing disability all my life, I research and regularly reflect on how advertising portrays disabilities. Over the years, I vividly recall ads that promised to “fix” h...
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October 17, 2025 at 7:06 PM
...“‘A little bit challenging, a little bit exhausting and a lot disheartening’”: Barriers to Accessible Online Learning for Students with Mental-Health-Related Disabilities. You can read more at the following link: cjds.uwaterloo.ca/index.php/cj...

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“A little bit challenging, a little bit exhausting and a lot disheartening”: Barriers to Accessible Online Learning for Students with Mental-Health-Related Disabilities
Thirty-one percent of first-year university students self-declare as having a disability. Among those, mental-health-related disabilities are the most common. Each year, more students with disabilitie...
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October 14, 2025 at 10:35 AM
Natalie Frandsen determined that the accommodation model and online learning design elements influence learning for students with mental-health-related disabilities, in...

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October 14, 2025 at 10:35 AM
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Please send me a note if you're interested in reviewing! I'm particularly interested in films, art exhibits, and of course, books. Let's chat and see what reviews we can feature in the journal.
October 10, 2025 at 9:39 PM
«Handicap et vieillissement en ville : Déplacements des personnes ayant des incapacités motrices» : cjds.uwaterloo.ca/index.php/cj...

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Handicap et vieillissement en ville : Déplacements des personnes ayant des incapacités motrices
Le vieillissement entraîne des modifications biologiques, notamment des incapacités motrices, qui influencent les habitudes de déplacement et la perception de l’autonomie. Toutefois, il ne devrait pas...
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October 9, 2025 at 2:56 PM