by Carmen G. Farrell | Feb 26, 2025 | Uncategorized
Chase DeBalinhard was shot dead by police in a suburban Vancouver neighbourhood one afternoon in mid-February. His parents believe their fifteen-year-old boy was on his way to his schoolyard to make a video, something he enjoyed doing. Like Ges, this boy had ASD...
by Carmen G. Farrell | Jan 28, 2025 | Uncategorized
(Content warning: this post discusses unnatural death) Last week was full of horrendous news stories in my part of Canada—widespread classroom exclusion of diverse learners—details about the starving death of a woman with Down syndrome housed in a private home funded...
by Carmen G. Farrell | Jan 18, 2025 | Uncategorized
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by Carmen G. Farrell | Nov 6, 2024 | Uncategorized
Normally, going to the grocery store doesn’t make me angry. But this multinational conglomerate picked the absolute wrong day to flaunt their transnational corporate attempts to sanitize their treatment of employees—especially women—in my face. stop wrecking the...
by Carmen G. Farrell | Aug 23, 2024 | Uncategorized
Every parent of a neurodivergent child understands and embodies this wish. It’s dangerous for me to suggest I can read the minds of other parents, but for me—someone whose child will never live independently—I am confident other parents in my situation universally...
