Federation CJA announced a series of events as part of its fifth year of taking part in February s Jewish Disability Awareness, Acceptance and Inclusion Month.
Years later, they and other participants in Myseum of Toronto’s latest virtual exhibit,
Making Space, are asking visitors to wrestle with them, too, and to question why so many barriers to their engagement with the city still exist.
“It was a difficult thing for me,” said Ramsawakh, a non-binary writer, facilitator, podcaster and creator, who started using a cane to help with balance and weight bearing around the same time.
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“I was born with my disability and I ve always been disabled, but it wasn t until my 20s that I really started actually using the label publicly,” the 27-year-old said.