Over the past thirty years in Canada, disability rights movements have made critically important interventions into the oppression of disabled people in diverse sectors of society by striving to guarantee that many people with disabilities have better access to human and equality rights. Although disability advocates working with and as judges, lawmakers, and other decision makers have broken down barriers preventing the fuller, more equitable participation of people with disabilities in Canadian society, many acknowledge that much work still needs to be done to bring disability experiences, and more complex accountings of those experiences, into decision-making processes across all spheres of communal life. In this chapter, we open creative and artistic avenues for discussing and desiring disability rights, and diversity in those rights, as our contribution to a conversation that so often tends toward imagining rights in strictly bureaucratic, standardizing, and normalizing terms.

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