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Krystal Kavita Jagoo, MSW @ Intersectional Equity Insights

Krystal Kavita Jagoo graduated from York University with a Bachelor of Arts degree in 2008 and a Master of Social Work degree from the University of Windsor in 2010. Jagoo is an educator, who is passionate about equitable outcomes for all, which means working in solidarity with Black and Indigenous communities on Turtle Island, as can be seen from her writing and facilitation work. She most enjoys facilitating virtual psychoeducational Disability Justice programming, as she knows how vital such work is for BIPOC LGBTQIA+ disabled folx like herself to ever access equitable outcomes. 

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Leroy Moore Reminded Me of My Epic Gratitude for Black Disabled Women’s Warnings

In March 2024, I facilitated a virtual workshop on Movement Grief, as part of my Navigating Grief in BIPOC Solidarity series. Had it not been for a discussion prompted by a Black disabled femme participant sharing warnings from Dr. Sami Schalk and Vilissa Thompson about Leroy Moore's toxicity towards Black disabled women, I may never have known of his problematic pattern:
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If I Wrote My Eulogy, It Might Look Something Like This

For the 1st 30 years of my life, the closest I ever got to suicidal thinking was joking about how I was much more likely to be homicidal than suicidal. That changed after white supremacist workplace harassment hijacked my social work career in 2016, when served with a disciplinary letter that said I was "hired to practice social work, not social justice," as if they could ever be separated.
A selfie of Krystal Kavita Jagoo, a fat brown queer disabled immigrant woman and settler on Turtle Island, is seen. She is wearing a black KN95 mask, gold earrings that state "fierce" & "advocate," and a lavender hoodie. She has a black pixie cut, and black earphones.
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7 Ways This Disability Justice Practitioner Can Support Your Work with Virtual Equity Services

July is Disability Pride Month, so I wanted to focus this newsletter post on how my Disability Justice lens informs all of my work, in case tangible examples could help others to think more critically about how oppression limits access.

For as long as I worked as a Mental Health Therapist, I was encouraged to go into private practice as an opportunity to earn more, but I never did, as I hated marketing myself with time that could be much better spent helping folx.

In 2021, when forced into entrepreneurship by retaliatory white supremacist constructive dismissal during a global pandemic, while surviving financial abuse, I was far from skilled at marketing my variety of virtual equity services.
Octavia E. Butler, a Black woman with an afro, is seen seated beside a bookshelf.
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Reflecting on How the Disability Justice Framework Could Have Benefitted Octavia E. Butler

If Octavia E. Butler was still alive, she would have turned 79 this week.

Especially if you have read this newsletter post from last month, reviewed my BIPOC Poetry Gems page, or follow me on Bluesky, you may already know how much I adore Octavia E. Butler's brilliance, but her recent birthday offered a welcome opportunity to consider how her navigation of health issues as a Black woman informed her prolific work, including her 2000 Essence essay:
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If PCOS Was Called PMOS Decades Ago, Would That White Straight Male Doctor Have Cared?

The year was likely 2013 when I entered an examination room at a local walk-in clinic in North Bay, Ontario. I had naïvely assumed that since the doctor working that evening regularly referred his clients to me for mental health therapy at the North Bay Regional Health Centre's Mental Health Clinic, I would be treated with a basic level of respect. Upon entering the examination room, he 1st felt the need to tell me that this was a poor use of the walk-in clinic as if I only wanted contraception, I should have gone to Public Health.
These book covers are seen: The Cancer Journals by Audre Lorde, Kindling: Writings On the Body by Aurora Levins Morales, Black Disability Politics by Sami Schalk, Year of the Tiger: An Activist's Life by Alice Wong, Care Work: Dreaming Disability Justice by Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha, Beyond Survival Strategies and Stories from the Transformative Justice Movement, co-edited by Ejeris Dixon & Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha, The Right to Maim: Debility, Capacity, Disability by Jasbir K. Puar, The Future Is Disabled: Prophecies, Love Notes and Mourning Songs by Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha, Crip Kinship: The Disability Justice and Art Activism of Sins Invalid by Shayda Kafai, & Disability Visibility: First-Person Stories from the Twenty-First Century, edited by Alice Wong.
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10 Bookish Recommendations to Sharpen Your Disability Justice Lens

As a Disability Justice Practitioner for a decade, the 1st book I tend to recommend is the Skin, Tooth, and Bone: The Basis of Movement is Our People, A Disability Justice Primer, but during the Q&A period of my free virtual Disability Justice 101 webinar for the American Library Association’s Social Responsibilities Round Table's Health Equity in Action Summit, I was asked about other books I would recommend by a librarian in attendance.
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If Your Equity Events Offer No Free Spots, Congrats, You Have Failed at (Financial) Access!

If you ever wonder why all my workshop offerings are Pay-What-You-Can (PWYC), including FREE, it is because I understand that the vast majority of the learning opportunities I have accessed since COVID-19 hit, has been free, (as I was surviving at least $183,364 in financial abuse at the hands of my ex, Makai Livingstone, of Embodied Support Services, as detailed here), but also because the 3rd principle of the Disability Justice framework that grounds my work is an anti-capitalist politic!🫂
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A black and white Power and Control Wheel image is seen. In the middle, text states POWER AND CONTROL, while the outer ring states PHYSICAL AND SEXUAL VIOLENCE. Inside, the circle is divided into eight equal slices of Using Intimidation, Using Emotional Abuse, Using Isolation, Minimizing, Denying and Blaming, Using Children, Using Male Privilege, Using Economic Abuse, and Using Coercion and Threats, with descriptions for each that exceed this character limit, so full text included in the caption.
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Turns Out +++ Men Still Need Help Understanding How the Fucking Patriarchy Is to Blame in 2026

Do you remember choosing the hypothetical bear over the men we all know? I do, as I recall discussing it with the 2 women facilitating my Community Care program in the spring of 2024, so it was at least 2 years ago that I last wished for a mainstream discussion to finally land with those most able to disrupt the patriarchy that disproportionately kills us, i.e., the fucking men. Unfortunately, I deeply regret to inform you that far too many men remain wilfully ignorant enough for me to devote an entire newsletter post to this discussion, after a particularly victim blamey week of witnessing misogyny.
A photo of the latest hard cover anthology with Krystal Kavita Jagoo's essay in it, i.e., Asian Canada is Burning: Theories, Methods, Pedagogies, and Praxes, is seen, on a grey table, with a package of a "DO NO HARM BUT TAKE NO SHIT" sticker and button on top, as created by knezek.art
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No Longer Even Seeking Pappy’s Approval to Dismantle Social Work’s Rampant White Fuckery

The good news is that I have survived a month without my trauma-informed chiropractor. The bad news is that my Chirp Contour has still not arrived from Michigan, so although February is the shortest month, it felt like the longest, unfortunately. Especially since my period has joined the pain party on the heels of my latest rejection for a much-needed paid opportunity despite calling my application "brilliant," I am reflecting on Social Work Month, which is what March has been considered since 1963.
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