Independent blogs, newsletters and podcasts I read and listen to: CMT and neighbouring conditions, disability justice, evidence-based medicine and accessibility. Canadian voices are flagged 🇨🇦. For the annotated version, with notes on why each one is here and the voices that have gone quiet, see CMT Blogs of Note.
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CMT and Hereditary Neuropathy
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On My Own Two (Young Lee)
Young Lee’s column on living with CMT1A: ableism, empathy and conversations with other CMT advocates.
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Rachel Daigle
A young woman’s life with CMT1A, chronic pain and a hip surgery that went wrong.
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Rare Mom
Iris Schultz, parent of a child with CMT4B3, on braces, insurance appeals and how rare-disease research works.
Neighbouring Conditions
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Hello Lelu
Reporting and reflection centred on disabled and chronically ill people.
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Pain News Network
Independent, reader-supported news on chronic pain and pain policy, with columns by pain patients.
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Rarely Thriving
Dispatches from the messy reality of a neurodivergent, disabled mum.
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The Wheelchair Activist
Emma Vogelmann’s personal essays on spinal muscular atrophy, disability, power, love and everyday life.
Disability Justice and Crip Writing
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AODA Alliance
David Lepofsky’s volunteer coalition tracking Ontario’s accessibility law and its enforcement. 🇨🇦
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BIOPOLITICAL PHILOSOPHY
Shelley Tremain’s critical philosophy of disability, home of the Dialogues on Disability interviews. 🇨🇦
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Cranky Granky
Eaton Hamilton, a Canadian writer, on aging, disability, COVID denial and winnable access fights. 🇨🇦
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Crip News
A weekly roundup about disability arts and politics.
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Crutches and Spice
Imani Barbarin’s commentary on ableism, race and the politics of disablement.
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Disability Debrief
Explore disability around the world with an engaging newsletter and fast-growing library of disability news.
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From Where I Sit
Heidi Janz on ethics and disability policy from Alberta, including MAID. 🇨🇦
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G Peters (MsSineNomine)
Gabrielle Peters on MAID, poverty, heat deaths and who Canada is willing to let die. 🇨🇦
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Not Dead Yet
The US disability rights group opposing assisted suicide and euthanasia as discrimination.
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The Disabled Feminist
Essays and interviews where the disability rights movement and feminism meet.
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Whatever What Is
Jessica Slice, author of Unfit Parent, on disabled parenting and fragile bodies and lives.
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Words I Wheel By
Making conversations about disability more accessible for everyone.
Evidence and Medicine
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Retraction Watch
Tracking retractions as a window into the scientific process
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Science-Based Medicine
Physicians and scientists examining the evidence behind medical claims and treatments.
Accessibility and Neurodiversity
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Eric Bailey
Accessibility advocate, writer and developer on how the web fails disabled people, and how to fix it.
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Sightless Scribbles
Robert Kingett, a blind writer, on accessibility, books, audio fiction and life.
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Stimpunks
A neurodivergent- and disabled-led foundation writing on access, learning and community.
Podcasts
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Disability After Dark
Andrew Gurza’s long-running show on disability, sex, queerness and the parts of disabled life people don’t talk about. 🇨🇦
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Disability Deep Dive
Interviews on accessibility, identity, discrimination and rights from Disability Rights Florida.
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Disability Dialogues
Research and lived experience on disability, health equity and community well-being in Canada. 🇨🇦
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Docs With Disabilities
Physicians and trainees with disabilities on medicine, accommodation and access.
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Everything You Know About Disability Is Wrong
Two disabled hosts on real issues and conversations in disability communities.
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ListenABLE
Dylan Alcott and Angus O’Loughlin ask disabled guests the questions people think are off-limits.
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Our Voices: Conversations of Disability
Andrew Letchuk’s independent conversations with disabled people, scholars and activists in Ontario. 🇨🇦
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Reimagining DisAbled Futures
DAWN Canada on how gender, disability and economic inequality shape the lives of women and gender-diverse people. 🇨🇦