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Episode 4: Reimagining a Good Life: Disability Justice, Peer Support, and Housing

Episode 4: Reimagining a Good Life: Disability Justice, Peer Support, and Housing

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 Episode Summary In this episode, Reimagining Disabled Futures explores what feminist recovery looks like through a disability justice lens, with a particular focus on peer support, housing, and collective care. Hosts Nashwa Lina Khan and Erin Dekker are joined by Dr. Jihan Abbas, a sociologist and disability studies scholar, to examine how capitalism, neoliberalism, and ableist systems shape disabled people’s ability to live well. The conversation highlights peer support as a foundational disability justice practice rooted in lived experience, mutual aid, and community knowledge. Dr. Abbas reflects on how peer support helps people navigate systems that are often inaccessible or harmful, while also validating experiences of ableism, poverty, racism, and gender-based violence. The episode also explores housing as more than shelter — positioning housing as a determinant of safety, care, and belonging. Through discussion of institutionalization, long-term care, and the ongoing impacts of COVID-19, the episode asks what it truly means to reimagine a “good life” beyond individual fixes and within collective, systemic change. Guest: Dr. Jihan Abbas Researcher, educator, and instructor in Disability Studies at Toronto Metropolitan University. Dr. Abbas’ work focuses on disability justice, social movements, housing, gender-based violence, and reimagining wellbeing beyond ableist and capitalist frameworks: Disability Studies Publications Key Topics Covered in the Episode: Disability Justice & Peer Support : Why peer support is central to disability justice and feminist recovery. How lived experience and mutual aid challenge professionalized, individual-focused systems. Peer spaces as sites of validation, connection, and collective survival. Reimagining a “Good Life” Unpacking how colonialism, white supremacy, and capitalism shape dominant ideas of wellbeing. Challenging ableist and exclusionary definitions of success, productivity, and independence. Centering intimacy, connection, choice, and dignity as essential components of living well. Housing, Capitalism, and Institutionalization Housing as a determinant of care, safety, and autonomy — not just a bed or shelter. The erosion of social housing and the financialization of housing in Canada. Increased institutionalization of disabled people through long-term care and group homes. Gender-Based Violence, Disability, and Housing How lack of choice and control in housing increases vulnerability to violence. The intersections of disability, dependency, and gender-based violence. Why housing justice must be central to feminist recovery efforts. COVID-19 and Feminist Recovery COVID-19 as an ongoing disability justice issue and mass disabling event. The impacts of long COVID and the rollback of public health protections. Increased isolation and risk for disabled women and gender-diverse people in a so-called “post-pandemic” world. About DAWN Canada DAWN Canada is a national feminist, cross-disability human rights organization that works to address systems of oppression. We focus on addressing issues of disability through our four pillars: research, education, policy and advocacy. DAWN’s mission to end the poverty, isolation, discrimination and violence experienced by women, girls and gender-diverse people who live with disabilities and/or are Deaf in Canada: https://dawncanada.net/ About the Feminist Recovery Project The Feminist Recovery Project is a key DAWN Canada research initiative exploring what recovery looks like through a feminist and disability justice lens. Resources & Further Reading Disability Visibility Project (founded by Alice Wong) DAWN Canada – Resources and Publications: https://dawncanada.net/resources-and-publications/ A special thank you to Dr. Jihan Abbas for sharing her insight, care, and expertise, and for her ongoing contributions to disability justice, housing justice, and feminist scholarship.
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