DISABILITY, YOUTH AND CULTURE: PERSPECTIVES ON INCLUSION

A forum to engage youth with disabilities and their peers without disabilities in reflection, self expression and discourse about how society, groups and individuals relate to people who have disabilities or other perceived differences.

Perspectives on Inclusion Coordinator and Online Moderator.

Onyii Udegbe is a 21 year old, Gemini, Nigerian, queer, fat, recovering christian and catholic, immigrant, teenage runaway, extreme trauma survivor turned powerhouse, thriver, blogger, sometimes mad, young woman living with a congenital and progressive disability.

She has an extensive experience of engaging, interacting and communicating with people in their everyday lives through and across varied intersecting oppression. She is an extremely focused, strong willed, thriver, facilitator, politically literate educator and writer who draws from her textured and supremely complicated lived experience.

Studying at the university of Toronto as an undergraduate in sociology, equity and sexual diversity studies, She is also a hip hop/ youth culture consumer turned critic and producer who dances, walks and talks the game.

For questions, thoughts and comments please forward them to poinclusion@yahoo.com

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INTRO: PERSPECTIVES ON INCLUSION

A forum to engage youth with disabilities and their peers without disabilities in reflection, self expression and discourse about how society, groups and individuals relate to people who have disabilities or other perceived differences.

This live forum for shall take place in the coming weeks. If you interested in participating in the live forum please send a brief bio and statement of interest to poninclusion@yahoo.ca
Your comments, thoughts articles, rants, poetry, artwork and self expressions of all kinds are always welcome. poinclusion@yahoo.com

Perspectives on Inclusion is supported by the CulturAll and Stretch Projects, two multipartnered projects include The Adaptive Technology Resource Centre (University of Toronto), Ryerson's Disability Studies Program and the Canadian Abilities Foundation.

Onyii Udegbe,

Perspectives on lnclusion Forum Coordinator and Online Moderator.

poinclusion@yahoo.com

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