Chelsea Temple Jones
Chelsea Temple Jones is an instructor in disability studies at Ryerson University in Toronto.
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Justice | Culture
Dear Hollywood: Enough with the disability clichés
Filmmakers have long used stale disability narratives to nab awards. Recent films hint at more complexity.
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Ethical Living | Society
Gary Paterson says: Let’s host a discussion about assisted suicide
The church is a place to talk end-of-life ethics, where the personal, the political and the spiritual collide
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Ethical Living | Human Rights
Unpaid internships are spreading like wildfire, with few protections
Would-be employees are cycling through multiple volunteer internships before getting paying jobs and can't risk saying no to demands
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Spirituality | Theology
John Swinton on why churches have disability ‘inclusion’ all wrong
'To include people in society is just to have them there.'
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Spirituality | Society
Bernadette Dumas’s parents needed a place to hide her. Decades later, she’s still haunted by what she lost
Years after she was sent to a United Church maternity home, she wants a national inquiry into the role of churches, social workers and health-care workers in their operation.
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Justice | Society
Homeless programs are all too successful, but society fails to care
Thousands seek shelter in churches and Out of the Cold programs, but long-term solutions are not on the table
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Death | Activism
Assisted death crusader Gloria Taylor sits down with the Observer
She's the only person in Canada to win the right to a medically assisted death if she needs one when ALS gets too painful
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Ethical Living | Religion
Church needs to be a welcoming place for those with disabilities
To be genuinely open, congregations need to treat people with intellectual disabilities as more than guests
