“‘Get the disabled out of their closets’: disability activism in the city of Thunder Bay, and Northwestern Ontario, 1972–1990s”
Bibliographic record
Abstract
The dissertation “‘Get the Disabled Out of Their Closets’: Disability Activism in the City of Thunder Bay, and Northwestern Ontario, 1972 – 1990s,” argues that the city of Thunder Bay and northwestern Ontario (NWO) through the contributions of the Handicapped Action Group Incorporated (HAGI) and its allies became a dynamic disability rights centre, which not only liberated many of the region’s physically disabled from a hegemonically ableist built and social environment, but was well-integrated into the provincial, national, and international disability rights scenes. Brought together, fairly early, in the post-1970s disability rights movement, HAGI, built upon the efforts of pre-1970 disability activists to fight for access in several keys areas: housing, transportation, sport/recreation, and the built environment. To tackle the above, HAGI broke free of its early reliance on local able-bodied social leaders to build a grassroots disability rights and consumer organization, which maintained strong relationships with multiple stakeholders. Aided by the growing Independent Living Movement and public focus on disability issues, HAGI was successful in establishing several accessibility initiatives in Thunder Bay for disabled people, including One Fifty Castlegreen, HAGI-Transit, a lively sports and recreation culture, and changes to building design. Outside of the city, HAGI helped to set up disability consumer organizations in several NWO towns and cities and guided them on their own paths to accessibility. As well, this study examines the impact of race, gender, and power relationships within the disability rights movement in Thunder Bay and the region and how these areas positively or negatively challenged HAGI.
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How this classification was reachedexpand
Full frame machine prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. The Gemma side is a direct model label for every work in the frame, read from the title-only record. The Codex side is a classifier learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and calibrated to design-weighted sample rates; fields without enough sample support carry no Codex call. Candidate is the union of the two sides; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels.
Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.025 | 0.012 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.003 | 0.002 |
| Open science | 0.001 | 0.006 |
| Research integrity | 0.001 | 0.003 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.007 | 0.001 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from itClassification
machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; a candidate call from one source (direct Gemma or distilled Codex), not a consensus.
How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".