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An illustration of a colourful winter scene. Two people, one in a wheelchair and one with a walker, move along a path next to a skating rink while someone skates.

Will COVID-19 Change How We Think About Disability?

February 12, 2021February 12, 2021 - by Aimee Louw

From prioritizing pedestrian spaces to proliferating online hangouts, the pandemic has made accessibility mainstream. Will it last?

Illustration of alternating segments of a fountain pen and a white cane, against a dark blue background.

Arts & Culture

The Author Who Shaped the Way We Represent Disability

October 23, 2020January 29, 2021 - by Meagan Gillmore

Mainstream entertainment rarely allows people with disabilities to exist as we are. Jean Little’s work taught me there’s no shame in writing about our experiences

Society

The Decade in Us

December 24, 2019February 21, 2020 - by The Walrus Staff

From building a life without kids to why shared work offices are the worst, these are the conversations that helped define Canada

A gold award ribbon that says "The Smart One," floating against a pale pink background.

First Person / Society

Beauty Standards Are a Rigged Game

November 21, 2019November 26, 2019 - by Sarah Trick

If I couldn’t be seen as both disabled and beautiful, I decided I’d win by becoming “the smart one”

The Walrus Talks

Belonging: Molly Burke

October 17, 2017October 15, 2020 - by Molly Burke

A sense of belonging, according to Burke, is not about changing her into an “able” person, but accommodating for all kinds of humans. It is society, not Burke, that needs to be fixed

December 2016 / Health

No Vacancy

November 23, 2016October 6, 2020 - by Sarah Trick

For the disabled, finding a place to live often takes years

Health

Illness Isn’t a Battle

October 20, 2016November 19, 2019 - by Louise Kinross

Why the popular SickKids ad betrays children with disabilities

Education / September 2016

Campus Confidential

August 16, 2016October 6, 2020 - by Liz Beatty

Where’s the line between accommodating disabled students and coddling them?

Kid smiling laughing with an adult in a car

May 2014 / Photography

Facing Difference

April 21, 2014April 14, 2020 - by Ian Brown

Down syndrome in the age of prenatal testing

December 2005/January 2006 / Sports

The Greater Goal

December 12, 2005May 20, 2020 - by Natalie Alcoba

freetown—On a dusty pitch, on the edge of one of the poorest countries in the world, a one-legged man is playing soccer. There is skill here. A trapped ball, a …