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   Megan Lynch (she/her) (meganl@mas.to)'s status on Saturday, 31-Aug-2024 07:25:35 JST Megan Lynch (she/her)

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   Another similarity to UC is that they do it as a donation thing. The presumably abled councillor said "money's always tight", but it wasn't too tight to make a pier that abled people could walk on, was it?

   Disabled ppl are members of the public and constantly excluding us from decisionmaking, planning, and design creates results like these.

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     Megan Lynch (she/her) (meganl@mas.to)'s status on Saturday, 31-Aug-2024 07:25:35 JST Megan Lynch (she/her)

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     I once had an abled student who was one of the privileged few invited to plan a symposium tell me they hadn't made it accessible because "it's too expensive".

     I asked them which planning meeting was the first meeting where they investigated costs for accessibility.

     It turns out, of course, they hadn't investigated it or discussed it at all. It is something abled ppl are trained to do - think of it as "extra" cost and redirect that budget elsewhere. Like catered lunches at the symposium.

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     Megan Lynch (she/her) (meganl@mas.to)'s status on Saturday, 31-Aug-2024 07:25:36 JST Megan Lynch (she/her)

     UC takes my name, takes UC Access Now's name off of work we've done, in order to act as if they just spontaneously thought to improve things.

     Seems to be a similar thing here.

     Global News "A local disability advocate has been pushing for a mat to be installed since 2021" but they don't name who it is.

     Luckily, they are interviewed with a title underneath, but they really should have highlighted their work more.

     #Ableism #Accessibility https://globalnews.ca/news/10727187/white-rock-pier-accessibility/

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