Amplifying Voices: Parents with Disabilities (Second Year)

We're thrilled to support Parents with Disabilities through our Amplifying Voices event where we give a platform for unique voices and powerful stories to be heard and shared.

It's amazing to witness the journey that Marjorie Aunos & Ingrid Palmer have had over the past few years. Together they are making a difference with the support of their co-producers Marco Pasqua & Heather D. Walkus on a topic that needs a light shined on it.

That is why for the second year in a row, on United Nations’ Global Day of Parents (June 1st, 2022), during Canada’s accessibility week (May 29th to June 4th, 2022), we will be celebrating Parents with Disabilities by hosting an incredible night of speeches and poetry about finding the funny in parenting!

Parenting challenges us in ways we never thought possible. For parents with disabilities, challenges also come from several systemic disparities, which include lack of accessible housing and jobs, poverty, and facing stigma and attitudinal barriers. This means that we all have those stories of adversities that have made us cry of despair or scream out of frustration.

Yet, in some of those circumstances, we actually chose to laugh it off even if it was no laughing matter, in an attempt to have the last laugh!

Speaker Slam’s Amplifying Voices events aim at changing the narrative, dispelling stigma all the while highlighting positive representations, strengths, and diversity.

Join us on June 1st [TONIGHT]: https://www.speakerslam.org/events

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