Lack of Accessibility Services for the Deaf and Hard of Hearing Community
For the deaf and hard of hearing community, every day can be a challenge. There are obstacles in which this community faces that we may not even realize. Due to this, many issues can be overlooked by the general public. One thing that they face every day is the lack of accessibility services. This includes a lack of fu...
Dec 07, 2020
The Digital Divide in Canada
What is the Digital Divide? Covid-19 has put the digital divide on full display. With many businesses and institutions having moved all their operations online, it can be deduced that the people most effected are those who have limited access to high-speed internet. Many of those people live in rural and First Nations ...
Dec 04, 2020
Thin Privilege: The harmful ways fast fashion controls body standards
The idea of thin privilege was popularized by Cora Harrington after she sent out a series of tweets explaining this new concept. The basis of what Harrinton was saying, was that "you don't have to feel thin to have thin privilege". If you can walk into a clothing store and find your size, you are seen. If no ...
Dec 04, 2020
Low Income Inequality and Why We Don't Talk About It
Low Income Inequality or The Blind Inequality Life on the streets is - as expected - difficult at the best of times. However, what happens when the world goes through a global pandemic? How do the homeless and very low income families deal with the realities that the rest of society have come to adopt in their everyd...
Dec 03, 2020
Judging a Book by Its Cover: The Truth of Inequity in Publishing
The publishing word experienced a wakeup call in early June of this year when the hashtag PublishingPaidMe started by author L.L. McKinney went viral on social media and exposed pay gaps and biases seen within the industry. Authors all around the world posted the amount that they had been paid for writing their book, a...
Dec 03, 2020
Divergence in the media
I'm guessing many of you are like me in the sense that during the quarantine, most, if not all our time was spent binge-watching a bunch of shows and movies across every platform imaginable, and of course, we can't forget about the growing TikTok obsession. One of the shows that I binged on Netflix was Atypical. If you...
Dec 03, 2020