Economic Inequality during Covid-19 as a Pathway to Food Insecurity for People who are Disabled and Racialized as Non-White

Covid-19 heightened economic inequality across the U.S., especially for people who are disabled and non-white. These intersecting economic vulnerabilities open pathways to hunger. Using a survey from July 2020 (n = 2,043) in the Intermountain West, we find that economic inequality explained a substantial portion of food insecurity for people with disabilities. Racially stratified models show that people who were also non-white were more likely to be food insecure and receive differential protection from economic resources. Stronger social support will help mitigate food insecurity, yet such programs must grapple with the ways that ableism and racism intersect, especially during economic shock.Copyright © 2022 Taylor & Francis Group, LLC.

Care Work Through Course Design: Shifting the Labor of Resilience

Drawing on the disability justice paradigm of care work (Piepzna-Samarasinha), this article moves to shift the labor of resilience from students to our course design, noting how models of student resilience are often tied to ableist expectations of performance and coherence. The authors share their ongoing experiments in creating disability-centric, care-centered course designs, which are meant to offer students more flexibility while respecting the required labor asked of instructors.

Decolonizing Time, Knowledge, and Disability on the Tenure Clock

We consider the tenure clock's enmeshment in the neoliberal academy's settler colonial and ableist modes of organizing labor and valuing knowledge, modes in turn informed by heteropatriarchal spatiotemporal logics. The tenure clock in the settler academy relies on labor performed by those positioned outside of its time—such as those in temporary or semi-temporary positions, staff, graduate students, and undergraduate students. Our motivation in tracing these logics and formulating feminist strategies to undo them stems directly from observing "faculty with disabilities" at our university struggling against the tenure clock;as well as seemingly abled women faculty, faculty of color, and contingent faculty, who have strained against the academic clock and ended up debilitated in the process. We articulate ways in which more collaborative understandings of university culture and knowledge production might serve to challenge the peculiar temporalities produced by the tenure clock. Listening and learning at the intersections of feminist, Indigenous, and disability studies scholarship teaches us to work toward imagining a different approach to tenure, and from there, the way to a different academy.

Hearing Happiness: Deafness Cures in History by Jaipreet Virdi (review)

The book begins with bacterial meningitis, an infection the author contracted in early childhood that left her with "profound-to-severe" hearing loss (Virdi, 7). Not only do we see her as a scholar in the archive, requesting permission to try a Victorian ear trumpet, we also see her as a child with her d/Deaf classmates, being fitted for hearing aids "as we squirmed and giggled when the wet silicone mold was injected into our ears," and as an adult, experiencing difficulty switching from analog to digital hearing aids (258). When Virdi's first pair of behindthe-ear hearing aids make her six-year-old ears stick out, and her hair "tied in a long braid as per the Sikh tradition, did little to disguise them," it is the hearing aids, not the braid, that provoke "snickers, puzzled glances, and finger-pointing from younger children" (18).

To Build for the Future

Rejecting the well-worn narratives of pity, scorn, othering, and medicalization that exist primarily for the benefit of the nondisabled, disabled people insist on better and richer stories about disability as a way of being and a way of knowing. Social scientists have explored the larger growth of systemic ableism and its specific manifestations in employment, health, housing, education, and beyond. [...]social media has become a particularly vibrant place for organizing, resource-sharing, community-building, laughing, loving, mourning, and world-building. In the COVID era, these virtual spaces have taken on a new level of importance in facilitating survival, resistance, and joy. [...]that requires a dual focus: we have to face the violence of ableism, especially as it continues to reverberate throughout the lives of disabled people, and we also have to celebrate the ways that disabled people resist, reclaim, and recreate in spite of it.

Class, Capitalism and Inequality: Schooling and Education in Neo-Liberal, Neoconservative and Neo- Fascist COVID Times: A Classical Marxist Critical Analysis and Activist Programme

This article focuses on a particular group in capitalist society that is disabled, demeaned and denied by capitalism itself, through processes of economic exploitation, systematic and systemic class exclusion, and discrimination/ prejudice- that is- the working class. In doing so I recognise that the working class (defined as all those who sell their/ our labour power) is segmented horizontally into `layers', or strata (for example, the dispossessed, unemployed, unskilled, though to the supervisory. managerial level/ stratum) and also vertically, for example, by `race' and by gender, with particular ethnic groups, and women in general, disabled and oppressed and exploited to a greater degree than their/ our white, male sisters and brothers). Analysing from a Classical Marxist perspective I address the structures of the capitalist state through which this exclusion and 'subalternising' is imposed, through formal state structures such as education, media, the panoply of state force and class law, as well as through the material power of the capitalist class, expressed through, for example, wage suppression and enforced immiseration of the majority of the working class. In doing so I address two types of neo-Marxist analysis- 'Structuralist neo-Marxism' and 'Culturalist neo-Marxism', and the dialectical relationship between them. They differ on such matters as: the degree of `relative autonomy' for resistant agency, the relative impact and import of cultural-ideological as against structural- material analysis, and the salience or not of social class analysis, the Capital-Labour relation, vis-a vis other forms of oppression such as `race, and gender', and their implications for political resistance and organisation at the cultural-ideological level and at the level of power, the material power to reform and revolutionise economic and social relations of Capital. I propose an activist programme of resistance at two levels. Firstly, societal level, looking at Marxists such as Marx and Engels, Rosa Luxemburg, Lenin, Trotsky and the dialectical relationship between Reform and Revolution. Secondly, at the level of Education, both formal and informal (through social movements, political parties, trade unions, through public pedagogy for example). Within the formal education structures, I advance specific proposals regarding schooling and teacher education. This is a panoptic paper- the issues above are linked in terms of Classical Marxist analysis of capitalism, class exploitation and oppression, and the implications of such analysis for the praxis and politics of resistance.

Structural Ableism: Defining Standards of Care Amid Crisis and Inequity

Equitable Standards for All Patients in a Crisis

Without Accommodation

Under the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA), workers with disabilities have the legal right to reasonable workplace accommodations provided by employers. Because this legal right is unique to disabled workers, these workers could, in theory, enjoy greater access to the types of accommodations that are desirable to all workers-including the ability to work from home, to work flexible hours, and to take leave. This Article compares access to these accommodations, which have become increasingly desirable during the COVID-19 pandemic, between disabled workers and nondisabled workers. Using 2017-2018 data from the American Time Use Survey's Leave and Job Flexibilities Module, I find that disabled workers report far less access to these pandemic-relevant accommodations than do nondisabled workers. I further present evidence that disabled workers' lower rates of access to pandemic-relevant accommodations are due, in part, to occupational segregation. Because disabled workers are more likely to work in jobs that are not amenable to working from home, working flexible hours, and taking temporary leave, the results raise concerns about many disabled workers' ability to maintain their employment during the pandemic. The results further highlight the inherent weaknesses of the ADA and the need for additional supporting legislation-including short-term insurance and educational funding programs-for disabled workers.

What's Love Cot to Do with It? An Argument Against Institutionalizing People with Severe Physical Disabilities

This article, based on the author's experience, takes a critical look at the basis for the bias toward nursing home placement for people with severe physical disabilities. The author writes that the roots of such institutional bias lie in anti-Black racism and ableism. She lists parallels in the federal responses to Hurricane Katrina and the COVID-19 pandemic as examples of a "politics of disposability" for vulnerable and invisible communities. She longs to end her fear of being placed in a nursing home, and places hope in the work of disabled activists and allies committed to the community presence and participation of disabled people.

Reflecting on Health Inequities in a Global Pandemic: The Need for Disability-Conscious Public Health Strategies

"Because I was on a ventilator, I couldn't speak up to explain that I was born with cerebral palsy." Family friends relayed additional concerns about their children who have autism and other sensory needs. Because these children were unable to wear masks for extended periods, their perceived "noncompliance" frequently prevented them from accessing public spaces. Thirty years after the passage ofthe Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA), the National Council of Disability's 2021 report revealed the persistent scarcity and utilization of accessible medical diagnostic equipment.6 The scope and severity of these issues are alarming, especially in the context ofthe aging nation and increasing prevalence of "long COVID," now recognized as a disability under the ADA.7 Without accessible health care clinics, screenings, and services, health care disparities will continue to worsen. The COVID-19 pandemic accentuated the necessity for public health leaders to address inequities by employing a disability-conscious approach. [...]the ongoing dialogue between health care students around the country, amplified by the testimony of the disability community, represents a critical moment.

Preaching Addressing Environmental Crises through the Use of Scripture: An Exploration of a Practical Theological Methodology

This article considers the critical roles of preaching in addressing the environmental crises by way of engaging with Paul Ballard’s work as a particular practical theological methodology, namely the use of Scripture. This methodological consideration is followed by highlighting the work of the Earth Bible Team, which compliments Ballard’s work. Both works are used as an example of a homiletical practice as well as a learning exercise, demonstrating how Scripture can be used as a homiletical resource of and hermeneutical source for doing practical theology with an eye to address environmental crises.

Pandemic Publishing: Year Two

If we accept this as a time of planetary entanglement, as Achille Mbembe (2019) names it, and if the question of this time is how we expose others to harm, violence, and death, then today's lockdowns and the forthcoming climate change migrations are more easily recognized as part of our commitment to historical processes that separate and divide us. [...]the Journal is pleased to present the contents of our current issue, which take up questions of Black studies and media materialism, changement cli- matique (climate change), digital access, disability in the journalistic profession, and the promotion of cannabis in Canada. While discussions of climate change often prioritize questions of economics, technology, and regulation in seeking to decarbonize energy systems, this article recognizes the importance of imaginaries in constituting climate change and its scientific discourses. In "A Learning Opportunity for TVO," Steven May revisits the imaginary, public communication, and institutional machinations that continue to inform ideas of digital transition in the context of a proposal by the Ontario Educational Communications Authority (known as TVO) to eliminate all but one of its digital over-the-air transmitters.

Annals of Communication and Disabilities

Canadian Journal of Communication, 18(1):<https://www.cjc-online.ca/index.php/journal /article/view/718> This short article is an early piece in CJC that comments on the media's role in shaping public perceptions of people with disabilities as objects of pity, abhorrence, or inspiration. Canadian Journal of Communication, 28(2): https://www.cjc-online.ca/index.php/journal/article/view/1358 Twenty-three years alter Stein's article, Barbara Schneider published this empirical study examining how people diagnosed with schizophrenia reconstruct positive identities in the face of the stigmatizing discourses they experience daily. Yukari Seko is an Assistant Professor, School of Professional Communication at Ryerson University and an Adjunct Scientist, Bloorview Research Institute, Holland Bloorview Kids Rehabilitation Hospital.