Many style guides recommend person-first language, but disabled communities are split. Canadian media needs to take further steps in recognizing diverse preferences in disability language.

Turkish scholar Nazan Bedirhanoglu traveled to the United States after submitting a dissertation for her Ph.D at Binghamton University. Four days before she was set to return to her native Turkey, Bedirhanoglu received the news that she had been blacklisted by the Turkish government. Knowing that her passport would be confiscated if she returned to Turkey, Bedirhanoglu has been in the United States since the summer of 2016.

Georges Delaloye was hiking up Mont de l’Arpille in Martigny, Switzerland, when he received a gift from heaven. “I settled at the foot of a tree and began to write,” Delaloye recalls of this most memorable moment in June of 2005. “Once this writing was completed, when I read it again, I discovered, a little stunned, that I had received the Secret.” Delaloye is a Reciter of the Secret. In the French-speaking part of Switzerland, many people call on these Faiseurs de Secret when they have an injury, sickness or other health concern. In an extremely old practice — dating back to the Middle Ages — people visit the Reciters (or more often these days, call or even text) to ask for a prayer that will relieve them of their ailment.

On October 30, as dusk gathered on the soccer field at Toronto’s Dufferin Grove Park, hundreds of Jews and their allies congregated, holding candles and each other’s hands. They were mourning the loss of 11 people who were shot to death at the Tree of Life synagogue in Pittsburgh three days before. The vigil was hosted by the Toronto chapter of IfNotNow (INN), an organization working within North American Jewish communities to end support for Israel’s occupation of Palestine.

I remember the first time someone criticized my weight. I was in fourth grade, and for some reason, some girls in my class and I were going around in a circle talking about what made us pretty. I said I was happy with the way I look, and a girl in that group that I would be prettier “if I lost a few pounds.” That’s the time when my insecurity with my weight started.

Imagine if every single time you spoke out against the American government for violating human rights you risked being doxxed and having a mysterious organization try to brand you as a racist. This is a reality for people involved in pro-Palestinian solidarity and critical of Israel, many who have been doxxed on the website Canary Mission.