Writing (select)
“Those of us who are outside, we have a duty to speak”: How a North American summit brings together Belarusians abroad (Lossi 36, December 2024)
How history’s lessons in Warsaw can secure Ukraine’s future (Kyiv Independent, August, 2024)
“Kupala is coming home to Europe” : How Ukrainian traditions found a new home in Brighton” (Lossi 36, June, 2024)
Shaping awards season, one disabled story at a time (Rooted In Rights, September, 2023)
A New Chapter: Toronto Public Library Albert Campbell Branch, Scarborough, Ontario (Canadian Architect, June 2023)
How instant noodles taught me to embrace interdependence in the disabled community (The Unwritten, August 2022)
Governments must match civil society efforts to welcome refugees (Policy Options, April 2022)
Discrimination against people with disabilities is one example of how Russia operates outside rule of law (Canada’s National Observer, March 2022)
“Rural reflections” (This, Jan/Feb 2022)
Public services, not private donations are the solution to disabled poverty (with Rabia Khedr, Canada’s National Observer, Feb 2022)
Housing is a human right: Let’s start treating it like one (First Policy Response, Sept 2021)
”What’s in a name?” (Spacing, Issue 56, 2021)
Poetry in community: Interview with Ronna Bloom (Spacing, April 2021)
News reports rely on ableist language to describe societal impacts of COVID-19 (Ricochet, Dec 2020)
Let them have toilets: COVID puts spotlight on lack of access to sanitation (Ricochet, Sept 2020)
A history of the Toronto Public Library in four buildings (Active History, Aug 2020)
COVID-19 benefit strategy falls short for people with disabilities (First Policy Response, July 2020)
The unexpected potential of pandemic parking lots (Spacing, April 2020)
How some books tell stories without words (NOW, Jan 2020)
“Shopping beacons: new initiative for the blind connects public and interior spaces” (Spacing, Issue 50, 2019)
New Toronto film project aims to preserve the pasts of Indigenous and visible minority communities (This, Oct 2018)
Public Works Columnist (Torontoist, May 2016 – Sept 2017)
Toronto Lit Up 2018: Celebrating creative non-fiction included in Unpublished City with Adrian De Leon.
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