I’ve appreciated megan marie’s reporting on this season of Invisible Institutions. Disability studies so regularly focuses on US and UK contexts, and it’s been so helpful to learn more about the injustices disabled people in Canada face. Manitoba gets a special feature in ep. 3 🙃

On the 👤Invisible Institutions👤 Season 1 finale megan marie explores life and death in Canada’s institutions, documenting the experience of the expansion to medical assistance in dying in Canadian prisons and long-term care homes: podcasts.apple.com/ca/podcast/e7-… harbingermedianetwork.com

Every form of disability institution has their own rendition of solitary confinement. Tonight, Erin soroS explores solitary confinement in psychiatric wards in BC with moderator @harshawalia.bsky.social. Link for registering: eventbrite.ca/e/x-psychiatri…

“[MAiD] is exclusively a financial consideration,” I know one of the people in this story. Every one of these stories is hard. This one is especially so. I ask you again Canada, how many disabled people must die before you stop the eugenics MAiD? toronto.ctvnews.ca/ontario-woman-…

We know that the violence in this one group home is the tip of the iceberg. Institutions were designed to facilitate violence against labelled people and they always will.

The final episode of Invisible Institutions is out now! Ep 7: Life and Death in Canada's Institutions covers the expansion of MAiD and criminalization of #disability. Featuring Inclusion Canada’s Natalia Hicks, Catherine Frazee, and the @DJNO’s Sarah Jama. invisibleinstitutions.com/invisible-inst…

In our latest, we speak with megan marie about the past and present of institutionalization in Canada and their documentary podcast series Invisible Institutions, which just wrapped its first season patreon.com/posts/71217378

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So thrilled to be in conversation w Beatrice Adler-Bolton on the social violences of institutionalization. Institutionalization is the reality of disabled life today in both the US and Canada, informed by shared histories of eugenics.

Domiciliary hostels are for-profit residences for disabled people in Ontario.“I was appalled by the amount of wandering, the smell. The place reeked of urine, floors were sticky and I couldn’t find staff anywhere.” Kim Zarzour for YorkRegion yorkregion.com/news-story/106…

Invisible Institutions YorkRegion Here's Part 1 of that series. Unfortunately, Ray is not doing well since the story appeared. He is worried about backlash and leaving his room, and desperate for a better home, hoping someone can help yorkregion.com/news-story/106…

"We all do worse when disabled people are incarcerated." For the most recent episode of Unmaking Saskatchewan, I was joined by the magnificent Megan Linton of Invisible Institutions to talk about eugenics and disability confinement in Saskatchewan. spreaker.com/episode/514225…

Join NEADS and Invisible Institutions on October 14th at 3pm EDT via zoom for a panel exploring today's institutionalization practices and re-imagining the future of care. Registration: bit.ly/3ybg351 #VirtualAccess4All #MyNEADS

Disabled people have been sounding the alarm on for-profit institutions for decades. Its time to listen “Thawed bags of corn and carrots had turned black with mould. Dead bugs lined the freezer’s interior seal. An inspector gagged.” Diana Zlomislic in Toronto Star thestar.com/news/investiga…

From 6-7pm EST Saima Desai, saskatchewan potato utility, Invisible Institutions' megan marie & ghoulish guests talk 2023's Briarpatch Magazine 50th anniversary celebration + more🐈‍⬛

Join us tomorrow at 5pm Regina / 7pm Toronto for this spooky Follow us on Bluesky at harbingermedia.bsky.social telethon! 👻 Our editor Saima Desai and publisher Leisure Suit Larry Summers will be hanging out with megan marie of Invisible Institutions and saskatchewan potato utility of Unmaking Saskatchewan.

A long fight!!! Congrats Vicky!!