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.
Unfortunately, dire circumstances make marketing myself more of a necessity than ever, so I am using the 1st newsletter post of Disability Pride Month to highlight how my Disability Justice lens informs my virtual services, like writing, coaching, etc."
1. I have prioritized ethics over all else for decades: I am particularly useful in supporting organizations to do better when it comes to equity issues. For instance, when approached by a Toronto theatre to provide Disability Justice consulting, I agreed to do so only if able to gather information from past and present team members about gaps in their operations with an understanding that I would not disclose the names of any folx who confided in me. For context, this approach was informed by retaliatory white supremacist workplace harassment from Accessibility Services at the institution that bestowed tenure on Jordan Peterson, which I detailed in a 2021 CCF essay.
2. My writing serves as an extension of my work as an equity practitioner: While some invest in writing to reach the heights of craft and creativity, I turned to writing to help folx think critically about equity issues, as I grasped how lived experience of oppression provided insights that more privileged social workers often lacked. My 1st opportunity to contribute writing came from Social Justice Solutions in an unpaid capacity in 2014 thanks to a pilot project, but since then I have been paid to write for Huffington Post, Healthline, Everyday Health, Prism, etc. Since being constructively dismissed from both the medical-industrial complex and the academic-industrial complex, I live with the impacts of how power corrupts, which motivates my commitment to the Disability Justice framework in how I engage with writing.
We create loving interdependence that supports our struggles against a world that relies upon myths of individualism in order to justify systems of exploitation. We collectively develop an awareness of our respective needs and capacities, of what and how we’re giving and receiving, without succumbing to tit-for-tat accountings of our debts to one another...How could one possibly quantify the myriad ways we might lend our bodies, minds, and hearts in service to one another?"
3. My sociological imagination continues to inform all of my projects: Some know that I changed my major upon getting 100% on my 1st Sociology essay exam at York University, and that understanding of how social beings engage with one another still grounds all of my work promoting Disability Justice. It is why I first proposed a 9-session Sustainable BIPOC Resistance series to Scarborough Arts in 2020 that I facilitated virtually until 2023 when funding availed, with folx registering from across the globe for reasons like these:
4. A professor at Canada's largest university once yelled over the phone, "You are singlehandedly ruining the state of education in this country!": While I remain proud of my comeback, i.e., "Singlehandedly ruining the state of education sounds like a mighty big job, so I do not get paid nearly enough!" Accessibility Services was so damn threatened by a disabled Accessibility Advisor willing to bring forward issues about gaps in their accommodation of BIPOC disabled students that they created an entire policy to silence me, but students continue to find me on social media to thank me for helping them, so if you need an advocate who will support you in seeking justice, I remain that.
5. All services that might be considered Project Management/Access Coordination/Virtual Assistance benefits from my lived experience: As a fat brown queer disabled immigrant woman who has survived gender-based violence, those experiences of adversity inform all my work, as you can see from my conceptualization of Access Intimacy Abuse, which was jointly presented at the 2025 Leadership for Renewal, Sustenance, and Resistance in Challenging Times Conference at the Ontario Institute for Studies in Education:
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6. The 1st time white supremacy hijacked my career, I went back to providing therapy, but there was no going back after being constructively dismissed by what I came to understand was an equity office in name only: If you could benefit from one-on-one virtual services, all my earlier skills from that social work career remain transferrable to any coaching, tutoring, or mentoring, and I even completed the IDHA Transformational Mental Health Program in 2026, which helped me to reconcile my own mad identity.
7. To me, dying happily means living my equity values as most only claim to, so if I have to resort to a medically assisted death due to my inability to afford to exist, please know that if you have wronged me, you have hereby signed up for the multiple lifetimes package for justice with me: As heartbroken as I remain over being drained of at least $183,364 in Access Intimacy Abuse at the hands of Makai Livingstone of Embodied Support Services, all the paid work opportunities I have lost over my commitment to Palestinian liberation with my artivism, other betrayals, etc, my precarity pales in comparison to those surviving genocides, so I continue to do this work! 🫶🏾
Basically my Disability Justice lens informs and improves any role I play, so please consider purchasing my services or promoting all I offer to an organization that could utilize my equity-oriented approach. Maybe you need a writing coach who can combine her skills as a past therapist to support that project you never let yourself daydream about too much? Or maybe your organization is in need of a virtual workshop facilitator for an equity series? Maybe you need coordination support from a professional with a frustrating level of attention to detail that means she prides herself on catching typos so you never have to worry about how she will handle the logistics for managing all your pressing tasks?"
Depending on when you read this, I may have already resorted to a medically assisted death given my inability to survive Makai Livingstone's Access Intimacy Abuse, so if able to help me avoid that outcome, please do so below.
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!🙏🏾
If this newsletter post left you wanting to learn more about all I offer, you are welcome to peruse my public CV below to see how I continue to evolve as an equity practitioner, educator, artist, etc, and purchase services here.
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