All posts filed under: Disability

Pride Toronto 2024: The Accessibility Information You REALLY Want

June 26, 2024
by Atticus Hawk
Digitization / Disability / Queer History / The Gays Did What Now?

Calling all disabled dandies, handicapped homos and crippy queers; it’s Pride in Toronto! Time to get nasty with it and whip out our big, fat, throbbing media literacy degrees to scour the Pride Toronto™ website for any shreds of accessibility information we can actually use. Read on for all the accessibility information you need to know and bask in our homemade, screen-reader-compatible Bare Minimum Accessibility Map: Pride Toronto 2024 Edition!

Crip Orgies: cum’on everybody! 

May 29, 2024
by Atticus Hawk
Activist Histories / Disability / Kink Cultures / Queer History / The Gays Did What Now?

You ever seen a wheelchair user fuck harder than the best porn stars in Vegas? How about the hardcore harness fetishists losing it over the straps of a hydraulic sling lift? Ever considered the implications of the condom catheter X leg bag situation as the ultimate power move in watersports? In 2015, disability activists Andrew Gurza and Stella Palikarova embraced it all with Deliciously Disabled, an accessible, sex-positive party held at the iconic Buddies in Bad Times Theatre, right in the heart of Toronto’s Gay Village. But why there and when can we get tickets for the next one?

Queer & Disabled Activisms in Tkaronto Project: An interview with Creative Scholar Megan Ingram

April 5, 2024
by Alisha Stranges
Academia / Activist Histories / Archiving Oral History / Collaboratory News / Community-based Oral History / Disability / Oral History / Public Humanities / Queer History / Trans History

Welcoming Megan Ingram, our inaugural “Creative Scholar in Virtual Residence.” Part scholarship and part cultural production, Megan is developing a new documentary project, using oral history interviews conducted with community activists working at the intersections of disability, queerness, healthcare access, housing, and poverty.