Websites
eugenicsarchives.com
Living Archives on Eugenics in Western Canada has developed accessible resources to explore the history of eugenics in Canada’s west and the contemporary significance of that history.
A group of survivors and supporters focused on honouring those who were laid to rest at the Huronia Regional Cemetery who come together for mutual support to share our life stories.
abolitionanddisabilityjustice.com/opening
The Abolition and Disability Justice coalition are abolitionist psychiatric survivors, people with disabilities, and their accomplices. They believe in and work toward the liberation of all. Their website has resources on what crippin’ abolition means and looks like.
www.liatbenmoshe.com/resources
Liat Ben-Moshe is a leading scholar in deinstitutionalization and abolition. Their website shares resources on abolition, disability justice, and transformative justice.
www.institutionwatch.ca
The Joint Task Force on Deinstitutionalization was formed in 2002 by People First of Canada (PFC) and the Canadian Association for Community Living (CACL).
madincanada.org
As the newest of several Mad in America global affiliates, Mad in Canada believes that the current paradigm of mental health care has failed our society and that scientific research, as well as the lived experience of those who have been diagnosed with a psychiatric disorder, calls for profound change.
eugenicsnewgenics.com
The Eugenics to Newgenics website shares ongoing research about disabled people’s access to sexuality, reproduction and family life.
djno.ca/history-of-disability-justice-right
This timeline attempts to delineate key events around institutionalization, deinstitutionalization, community/independent living, disability rights and disability justice, as they took place in Canada and the United States since the 1800s.
truthsofinstitutionalization.ca
A collection of voices sharing the truths of institutionalization in Canada, from the 1800s to present day.
Audio & Podcasts
“Burn it Down.” Canadaland.
“Fighting the institutionalization of disabled Nova Scotians.” the Nova Scotia Advocate.
“Remove and Normalize: Discussing Canada’s residential institution history with Megan Linton.” non compliant podcast.
“The Gristle in the Stew: revisiting the horrors of Huronia”. CBC Doc Project.
Movies
Books
Broken: institutions, families, and the construction of intellectual disability (2017) Madeline Burghardt
Decarcerating Disability: Prison Abolition and Deinsitutionalization, (2020) Liat Ben-Moshe
Disability Incarcerated: Imprisonment and Disability in the US and Canada, (2014) Liat Ben-Moshe, Chris Chapman & Allison C. Carey
Special Hell: Institutional life in Alberta’s eugenics years, Claudia Malacrida
Facing Eugenics: reproduction, sterilization and the politics of choice Erika Dyck
Managing Madness: The Weyburn Mental Hospital and the Transformation of Psychiatric Care in Canada, Erika Dyck
Care Work: Dreaming Disability Justice, Leah Lakshmi Piepezna-Samarasinha
Remembering Patients Past, Geoffrey Reaume
Institutional Violence and Disability: Punishing Conditions, (2018) Kate Rossiter & Jen Rinaldi
Our Own Master Race: Eugenics in Canada, Agnus McLaren
Workshops (past & present)
Cops out of care work: a summer series from DJNO