Archive - The North Star and the Compass

You can’t have an inclusive Toronto without an anti-ableist Toronto

Also death; awful parents; therapy feedback forms; radical allowing; beyond tolerance; communities; BIRTHDAY QUILT!; choice board; birth in birthday

Jun 18

How parenting A- includes a lot of performing for strangers

Also strollers and wheelchairs and neurodivergence; bad bill; B35 school; flying; saris; Ross Greene and screen time; scale of ABA to...; podcast?

Jun 8

May 2025

Critiques of the term "invisible disability"

Also kind strangers; amazing AAC usage; Pictello; podcasts; not therapies; having to teach it all; pointing; educating everyone; public schools

May 27

Healthcare costs for one relatively privileged family...

Also identity language?; incompetence and telepathy; kind of parent; Spotify as communication; the opposite of unschooling

May 19

How things can play out for my kid under authoritarianism (and how we all made this happen)

Also texting; love songs; strollers and Medicaid; dad's birthday; AI surveillance; motor planning when mad

May 8

The story never told: How parenting A- sent us into beautiful, life-changing freefall

Also perimenopause, squeezing, comparing, modeling trash, therapy problems, unschooling, non-speaking communication methods

May 2

April 2025

Call for Submissions!

Loving them freely

Apr 28

On love and those buying into "profound autism" and surviving fascism

And ropes, mutual aid, building across difference, strangers, reading, and race

Apr 25

The fight for inclusion is about whether you can be disappeared right now

Also no country is safe; bathrooms; complex AAC; parents vs disabled folks; changing minds; love abounds; novelty; intersectionality; frameworks

Apr 18

On Devon Price - take their work with a large grain of salt

Also request for Brooklyn connections, permissive parenting, personal troubadour, GPS tracker alt, maturity and growth, IEP meeting, eggs.

Apr 10

We MUST proactively talk about this moment with our non-speaking kids .. but how?

And ABA everywhere; video commentary; choreography level up!; telling time; keyboard feedback; long pauses; amazing Black studies curriculum

Apr 2

March 2025

Why Incremental change F* You

also BIG WEBSITE ANNOUNCEMENT; love; 2E bullshit, abolitionist inclusion, "avenue" and more

Mar 28

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