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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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A photograph is seen. Pappy, a grey-haired brown man is seated on an uncomfortable chair, hugging Grims, a black-haired brown woman, with his left hand, while Krystal, a brown girl, sits on his lap, eating a bag of chips, as he hugs her with his right hand.
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Mutual Aid Reflections from Pappy’s Favourite Grandchild & Disinherited Intended Beneficiary

Yesterday was the birthday of the man who I first saw practicing mutual aid.

Pappy died when I was only 9 years old, but from when he took early retirement until his death, I regularly accompanied him on his boat when he went fishing, and then distributed most of what he caught to local villagers.

He understood how those folx could likely not afford seafood often, so he would drive to their homes, and ask folx to meet him outside at his car with a basin full of ice so that he could share some of the fresh fish he had caught.
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Robust Guaranteed Income Programs for All Would Also Be Suicide Prevention

As my executive functioning continues to crumble amidst heightened housing precarity, inadequate pain management, etc., I was not functional enough to publish newsletter posts for 2 weeks, as pain made it difficult to even think clearly, which relates to this month dedicated to Suicide Prevention, as we do not talk enough about how often financial precarity limits access to care, which reduces our ability to earn sufficient income to keep ourselves housed, fed, and otherwise accommodated enough for an acceptable quality of life.
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A typewriter is seen, in which, a white sheet of paper has "PREVENTION" stated in black capital letters.
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Will You Please Invest (More) in Disability Justice Work to Operationalize Suicide Prevention?

Since relaunching my newsletter on Wednesday, December 24, 2025, I have published it weekly to introduce readers to Disability Justice. Unfortunately, the uphill battle of keeping myself alive since exhausting my retirement savings to survive $183,364+ in financial abuse may have reached my breaking point. I may not be functional enough to write about this coherently, but if I cannot state that in a newsletter with writing grounded in Disability Justice, then I have fallen prey to the internalized ableism that keeps many from taking action.
Title: Multimorbid by Rebecca Wood The book's cover is a photograph of an embroidered wreath of purple flowers and green leaves surrounding the title. The piece is held in a wooden hoop set on a background of aida cloth embroidered directly with text reading 'by Rebecca Wood'.
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Artmaking as Evidence: An Interview with ‘Multimorbid’ Author Rebecca Wood for Poet’s Day

Having connected with Rebecca Wood years ago, I was excited to read her debut book, Multimorbid, which was published on May 28, 2026. I am thrilled to introduce readers to her brilliance for Poet's Day, as celebrated on August 21, 2026, as I encourage folx to reflect on this Chapter 5 quote from Crip Kinship: The Disability Justice and Art Activism of Sins Invalid by Shayda Kafai:
The 2026 NAAFA Fat Liberation Month poster is seen. It features illustrations of fat folx of various sizes, skin colours, and abilities. Text states: FAT LIBERATION MONTH naafa
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How My Disability Justice Practice Had to Align with Fat Liberation for Representation

In that role, I often had Black, Indigenous, and racialized students doubt if they were eligible for registration with Accessibility Services, despite regularly seeing medical professionals for health issues that clearly limited their ability to pursue their learning. Over time, with each discussion with these students whose skin tones resembled mine, I came to realize that they too had implicitly come to perceive disabilities as "a white thing," likely because it was rare to see disabled representation of Black, Indigenous, and racialized folx, which posed a barrier to our self-identification as disabled. Personally, despite first navigating the debilitating impacts of Migraine Disorder since my teens, I did not begin to call myself disabled until multiple decades later.
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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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If able to contribute to my survival following my ex's financial abuse of at least $183,364, which further disabled me, alongside white supremacist workplace trauma, e-transfers within "Canada" may be sent to krystaljagoo@gmail.com and funds may be sent via PayPal below, so please consider supporting me!🙏🏾

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