Dispatches from Disabled Country

Catherine Frazee is a professor emerita at Toronto Metropolitan University, where, prior to her retirement in 2010, she served as a professor of distinction and codirector of the Ryerson RBC Foundation Institute for Disability Studies Research and Education. She also acted as the chief commissioner of the Ontario Human Rights Commission from 1989 to 1992. She has provided expert testimony before Federal and Superior Courts on human rights and disability disadvantage and has contributed actively in Supreme Court of Canada interventions of strategic concern to disabled Canadians, most recently regarding the legalization of euthanasia and assisted suicide. Frazee has written extensively on human rights, precarious citizenship, and the activist resistance of disabled people. Dr. Frazee has received honorary degrees from Carleton University, Dalhousie University, the University of New Brunswick, and McMaster University. She was appointed an Officer of the Order of Canada in 2014 for "her advancement of the rights of persons with disabilities, and as an advocate for social justice."Christine Kelly is an associate professor in the Department of Community Health Sciences at the University of Manitoba. Michael Orsini is a full professor in the Institute of Feminist and Gender Studies and School of Political Studies at the University of Ottawa.Contributors: Eliza Chandler, Harvey Chochinov, Kathryn Church, Laverne Jacobs, Christine Kelly, Michael Orsini, and Melanie Panitch

• Foreword / Kathryn Church and Melanie PanitchPreface: About Disabled Country / Catherine FrazeeIntroduction / Christine Kelly and Michael OrsiniRefusing ExtinctionIntroduction / Harvey ChochinovDeath in Disabled Country: Declaring Ourselves in the MAiD DebateUnder the Microscope: Dissecting Law and Medicine in the Disability Rights LaboratoryDisability and Law: Rethinking ParadigmsVigils for Tracy LatimerVulnerability and Inducement: Locating the Cart and the HorseDisability Studies: The Genetic Counsellor's Unexpected GuestLamb AffidavitDisrupting CultureIntroduction / Eliza ChandlerArt with AttitudeBecause We Are: Anthem for Disabled CountryKicking the Applecart, Upsetting CultureAbsent Presence: Disability in (and out of) the MuseumStelco's Cabin, a ResponseContributing to CultureOut from Under: Two BeginningsUnmaking VulnerabilityIntroduction / Laverne JacobsViolence, Disability, and RememberingCourageous StatesDisability in a Dangerous TimeVenom without Malice: On First Meeting a RattlesnakeSeparate but Equal, Isn'tActivism WorksWhy Monsters Matter: Portrait of the Activist as a Young MonsterConclusion: An Interview with Catherine Frazee / Michael Orsini and Christine KellyNotes; References; Index