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Live Work Well Research Centre
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A research centre anticipating & responding to the changing needs of families, livelihoods & living environments through research, teaching, & knowledge sharing.

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This #16DaysOfActivism we reached out to @edid-ghdi.bsky.social researcher, Hoa Bui, to learn about her research experience exploring the systemic barriers faced by #disabled women and girls in Vietnam.

Check out her fieldnotes in our latest blog post: bit.ly/4oJOSWi

#EndGBV #16Days
Engendering Disability-Inclusive Development — Genre, handicap et développement inclusif (EDID-GHDI) Vietnam Team member, Hoa Bui, presents a new blog post called "A Study on Violence Against Women with Disabilities in Vietnam (Truc Ninh and Hai Hau districts, Nam Dinh province). Find her post on the Live Work Well Research Centre's Notes from the Field blog. The EDID-GHDI logo is pictured beside a graphic of the country of Vietnam, with a pushpin in place where the province of Nam Dinh is.
December 9, 2025 at 3:10 PM
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Dec. 3 is International Day of Persons with Disabilities, a day to promote #disability justice, dignity, and well-being.

For #IDPD2025 learn how the @edid-ghdi.bsky.social team is working to better understand the experiences and stories of women with disabilities: bit.ly/4rF66Hi
“Vulnerable victims or innovative contributors? What story do policies need to address to include women with disabilities?” an article by Deborah Stienstra, Kathryn Currie Reinders, and Nashwa Lina Khan. Published in the Live Work Well Research Centre’s blog called Notes from the Field.
December 3, 2025 at 3:45 PM
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Announcing three new publications from our Sexual and Gender Diversity cluster co-lead, Adam Davies! Their research focuses on 2SLGBTQIA youth, madness, and #disability justice.

Visit our latest news post to see what they have been working on lately: bit.ly/3KjJivR
A hand raising up a megaphone to make an announcement. Text is located so that it appears as though it is being shouted from the megaphone. The text reads: New Publications From the Sexual and Gender Diversity Cluster. The background of the graphic is a gradient from yellow to pink, and there is a faint outline of an old newspaper.
December 2, 2025 at 5:50 PM
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🚨There's still time to register!

@cerchealth.bsky.social is hosting a panel on supports in Canada that could enable people with disabilities to truly thrive.

🗓️Dec. 3, 2:30-4 pm ET
📍Zoom OR DCC-705, 288 Church St, Toronto

Learn more and register: bit.ly/48w6L50

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Toronto Metropolitan University’s Canada Excellence Research Chair in Health Equity & Wellbeing is hosting the next event in their speaker series on December3, 2025, from 2:30 to 4:00 p.m. Eastern time. Their panel, From Surviving to Thriving: Reimagining Disability Supports in Canada, is available for attendance on Zoom, and in-person attendance at building DCC-705 on 288, Church St. Toronto, Ontario. This panel will explore what it takes for people with disabilities to move beyond survival and access the supports they need to flourish. Join experts as they examine the policies and practices that can advance inclusion, wellbeing, and opportunity.
December 2, 2025 at 3:27 PM
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Watch a recording of our Sept. 26 panel exploring the inclusion of persons with disabilities in UN peacebuilding initiatives!

Learn more and watch the 'Intersecting Agendas: Gender and Disability-Inclusive Peacebuilding at the UN' panel in our news post: bit.ly/4iB2din

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Graphic of a person rolling in a wheelchair. A faint silhouette of the earth is in the background as well as red, green, blue, and yellow line decals. Text reads: Intersecting Agendas: Gender and Disability-Inclusive Peacebuilding at the UN.
December 2, 2025 at 1:50 PM
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📢New podcast alert!

Reimagining Care cluster co-lead, Roberta Hawkins, was a guest on the @tihe.bsky.social podcast. She explored answers to questions like: How do we survive in #academia, and make it better for others?

Find more info and the full episode in our news post: bit.ly/3Xm4jJ5
Roberta Hawkins, she is pictured wearing a forest green shirt, her complexion is light, and she has short blonde hair cut to her chin. Included is a quote from her time on the Teaching in Higher Ed podcast, where she said: We are not cogs in an institutional machine.
November 27, 2025 at 2:49 PM
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🚨The #IWagWid auction is closing this Nov. 29 at noon!

Since 2022, Lynn Gehl has been organizing a fundraising auction to support her ongoing work with #Indigenous women and girls with #disabilities.

Learn how you can participate before the deadline: bit.ly/3Kd4vre

#AllMyRelations
A table, covered by a red cloth, with many different pieces of jewelry spread across it. A white banner is overlayed on top, it includes a picture of a private Facebook group called Auction: Indigenous Women & Girls with Disabilities #IWagWid.
November 27, 2025 at 2:16 PM
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People with #ADHD and/or #autism face their disabilities being "invisible" to the rest of society.

Does Evelyn demystify these "invisible" #disabilities? What would you add?

Read Evelyn's story on our Reimagining Livelihoods site: bit.ly/44yWTpL!

#LivelihoodsCanada
A graphic of Evelyn and her son Bailey sitting on a chair and reading together, from the composite story "Evelyn's Story: A Livelihoods Journey from Practicality to Passion." A quote from the story has been included above the graphic of the two character, it is enclosed in a speech bubble, and reads: "My ADHD and autism are labelled as "invisible disabilities" to the rest of the world but for me, they are always there. My ADHD brain is a flurry of forgetting deadlines unless they're written on my hand, having thoughts that never stop connected by strings that no one else can see, and feeling like I can't sit still because I have too much energy. In comparison, being autistic means my brain loves routine, and I am extra sensitive to things like bright lights, noises, and weird textures."
November 26, 2025 at 4:41 PM
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The 'Disability Poverty in Canada: Learning from Today to Make Tomorrow Better' conference is happing on Dec. 3!

Tune in to presentations from service providers, academic researchers, community members, and those with lived experiences of #poverty.

Learn more in our news post: bit.ly/3KkvyAN
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November 26, 2025 at 4:02 PM
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Join the GiiiA Network for its first Community of Practice workshop! Firelight, an Indigenous-owned consultancy, will work through how to implement culturally relevant GBA Plus!

🗓️November 26, 2025, 1-1:50 pm ET
📍Virtually on Zoom

Visit our news post for more info and to register: bit.ly/4adZ71w
The Gender-Based Indigenous Intersectional Impact Assessment (GiiiA) Network.
November 25, 2025 at 5:59 PM
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Join us on December 3, from 12 to 1 p.m. at the THINC Lab in the @uofglibrary.bsky.social for the next IF...Speaker Series 2025-26 event!

Find out more about this interactive discussion on feminist care ethics in social media research, and register at bit.ly/4pzXsrK.
On December 3, from 12 to 1 p.m. on the second floor of the University of Guelph McLaughlin Library in the THINC Lab, there will be a 'Digital methodologies of care in social media research' discussion. This next event in the IF...Speakers Series 2025-26 will be an interactive conversation exploring the ethical challenges of using social media platforms to conduct research. Roberta Hawkins and Amy Kipp, of the Live Work Well Research Centre's Reimagining Care cluster, will use a feminist lens and examples from past projects to present feminist ethics of care as an approach to navigating the challenges of social media research.
November 25, 2025 at 4:16 PM
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Last year, Dr. Hussein Abdullah and his team in #UofG's College of Engineering unveiled their innovative OpenWay app, which works with accessible doors.

Visit our news post to read about the progress that's been made on OpenWay in the past year: bit.ly/3XJYUvq
Close up view of the "push to open" button that is used to open accessible doors. A silver button, with dark blue font and a dark blue graphic of a person in a wheelchair. The button is attached to a brick wall.
November 20, 2025 at 6:12 PM
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#Livelihoods look different for everyone and can determine what barriers or supports a person brings with them to school or work each day.

What's in your lunch box?

Find out more about #LivelihoodsCanada on our Reimagining Livelihoods project site: bit.ly/3X1QJdV
The view inside four lunch boxes in each of the corners of the photo, each containing different food and text describing different aspects of the person eating the meal's livelihood. The first meal shows a sandwich and various snacks, and also text indicating the person eating the meal has overdue bills, has experienced a health scare, and their roof is leaking. The second meal shows a sandwich cut in triangles, an apple, and some nuts. Text is included to indicate that the person eating the lunch lost their father a couple of months ago, and that they are going to the food bank after school with their mom. The third meal is naan bread with some sort of dip. Text indicates that the person eating this meal is planning on coming out to their parents tonight, and they're excited to try cooking a new low-income recipe tonight as well. The final meal includes crackers, vegetables, eggs, and ham. The text indicates that the person eating just got a new job and joined a pottery class.
November 19, 2025 at 2:42 PM
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Introducing the protagonists of our composite stories! Get to know the characters from the Reimagining Livelihoods project by exploring these quick facts.

Keen for more? Visit our Reimagining Livelihoods website to read their stories and engage further: bit.ly/49Rx1Jf

#LivelihoodsCanada
Meet Lily, the protagonist of the Reimagining Livelihoods first composite story — Lily’s Story: Making Livelihood Dreams a Reality. Lily is a 19-yeaar-old, who uses a wheelchair, has light skin, and long brown. Lily recently graduated from high school and is looking for a job. She loves wheelchair basketball, volunteering with youth literacy groups, and writing. Her biggest pet peeve is unreliable public transit. Meet Wren, and their partner Cyrus, protagonists of the second composite story from the Reimagining Livelihoods project — Wren’s Story: A Recipe for Livelihoods. Wren is a Black, non-binary person with short hair. They resell items on Kijiji and volunteer at their community cooking program. They love gardening, cooking, and community outreach. But, their biggest put peeve is how complicated ODSP is. Their partner Cyrus is a white man who works in the trades, but it currently in between contracts. His biggest pet peeve is the cost of gluten-free and lactose-free products. Meet Evelyn, a Vietnamese, 40-year-old woman who is the protagonist of the Reimagining Livelihoods project third composite story — Evelyn’s Story: A Livelihoods Journey from Practicality to Passion. She works as a cashier at Marshalls, but she really wants to work as an art teacher. She loves painting, the tv show Bojack Horseman, and spending time with her son, Bailey. Her biggest pet peeve is bright overhead lights.
November 13, 2025 at 4:46 PM
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What would you do in Wren's shoes?

As a non-binary, Black, #disabled person who uses a walker, Wren faces up against misconceptions about their race, gender, and abilities as soon as they enter a job interview.

Read Wren's story: bit.ly/4p6IMQz

#LivelihoodsCanada
An excerpt from "Wren's Story: A Recipe for Livelihoods" a composite story from the Reimagining Livelihoods project. The protagonist Wren says, "Cooking tips aside, the other reason I got into volunteering is that I've had trouble getting a job—most places either just don't hire me, or say they can't make adequate accommodations because of my disability, but I still want to be able to help out."
November 12, 2025 at 2:32 PM
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📢Blog post announcement!

Calling all Gryphons! Do you need a sweet treat after your final midterm? Or a quiet spot to reconnect with nature after the stress of your last essay?

Here to revive you is our revised list of some of
@uofguelph.bsky.social's greatest gems: bit.ly/4hBeDWP!
Graphic depiction of a young, feminine-presenting person in front of a university building, holding a paper map in their hands. Read the latest post from the Live Work Well Research Centre's Notes from the Field blog, Hidden (and not so Hidden) Gems on Campus - Five Years Later by Vanessa Bonham.
October 30, 2025 at 6:06 PM
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The LWWRC is co-hosting the fourth panel in our Countering Policy Exclusions speaker series! Join us and discuss women and gender-diverse leaders with disabilities in policy and politics.

🗓️: November 10, 2025
⏰: 3-4:30 pm ET
📍: MacKinnon 019/Zoom

Learn more and register: bit.ly/4774oWY
Leading in Policy & Politics: Women & Girls with Disabilities is the fourth event in the Countering Policy Exclusions speaker series.
October 22, 2025 at 2:39 PM
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📢Recently, a team from the LWWRC, including Director
@dstienstra.bsky.social and PhD student @mariadidanieli.bsky.social, presented their paper—The Challenges of (Re)Building Trust Post-COVID: People with Disabilities and Canadian Governments.

Read more in our latest news post: bit.ly/3KXnbeF!
New Research: The Challenges of (Re)Building Trust Post-COVID—People with disabilities and Canadian governments.
October 21, 2025 at 5:47 PM
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It's #WomensHistoryMonth in Canada, a time to celebrate women's strength and contributions throughout history!

The LWWRC shines a light on areas of research where women have been historically excluded, such as disability studies.

Learn more at bit.ly/4gTgiHd!
A graphic of 6 women, who all look very different, holding a sign in between them that reads: October is Women's History Month.
October 1, 2025 at 3:21 PM
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Last fall, LWWRC staff Kaitlyn Pothier and Kathryn Reinders published “Complex Erasures: Re/Production of Disability under Settler Colonialism.”

For #OrangeShirtDay we interviewed them on their experience working with Indigenous leaders and communities.

Read more: bit.ly/3KpudbP
Complex Erasures: Re/Production of Disability under Settler Colonialism is a written interview with Kaitlyn Pothier and Kathryn Reinders, authors of a publication of the same name. The written interview is published on the Live Work Well Research Centre’s blog, called Notes from the Field. Pictured is a graphic rendition of the publication against a green background and surrounded by fall leaves.
September 30, 2025 at 2:25 PM
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This #GenderEqualityWeek, reflect on sexual violence and gender inequality.

Join UofG's College of Social and Applied Human Science for their first 2025-2026 CJiP Speaker Series event: Trial Actors - Sexual Violence and the Law.

Open to CSAHS students at #UofG, read more: bit.ly/4mDxIZv
CJiP Series: Trial Actors, Sexual Violence and the Law: A Conversation with a Crown Attorney.
September 24, 2025 at 2:11 PM
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#UofG international students in the College of Social and Applied Human Science or the College of Arts, check out the Welcome and Culture Share event: bit.ly/3IxtB3c!

Connect with faculty, staff, and fellow international students to enjoy, share, and celebrate your wonderful cultures!
September 24, 2025 at 1:44 PM
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Check out the Making a Life, Making a Living conference, a four-day gathering including keynote speakers, community-led initiatives, and public sector engagement!

🗓️November 12-15, 2025
📍The Matrix Hotel & @ualberta.bsky.social

More info: bit.ly/4myxMcN

#LivelihoodsCanada
The 2SLGBTQI+ Rainbow Entrepreneurship Knowledge Hub out of the University of Alberta is hosting their Making a Life, Making a Living conference from November 12th-15th, 2025. The event will be hosted at the University of Alberta, and the Matrix Hotel, with funding from the CGLCC's 2SLGBTQI+ Entrepreneurship Knowledge Hub, with backing from the Government of Canada.
September 23, 2025 at 2:35 PM
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📢Blog post announcement!

With our livelihoods.ca site and composite stories now live, we invite you behind the scenes!

Read our latest blog post to hear about the writing process from our composite stories authors: bit.ly/3V2QU7H

#LivelihoodsCanada
A graphic of two students standing next to a whiteboard that is covered in notes and brainstorming for the composite stories. You can read the blog, “From Forums to Feedback: The Composite Stories Experience,” by Vanessa Bonham and Jordyne Craig on the Live Work Well Research Centre website on the Notes from the Field blog.
September 4, 2025 at 3:30 PM
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📢Blog post announcement!

This month, the LWWRC said goodbye to our amazing co-op student and Research and Content Coordinator, Jordyne Craig.

Check out our latest blog post to read about Jordyne’s contributions and work experience at the Centre: bit.ly/41YDwoM!
A desk at a research centre with a laptop and various papers scattered on top. The background of the graphic is purple, and advertises the name of the blog “Creative and Inclusive: My Co-op Experience with the Live Work Well Research Centre in Winter 2025.” The blog was written by Jordyne Craig and can be found on the Notes from the Field section of our website.
August 26, 2025 at 2:18 PM