Invisible Institutions
Megan Q. Linton
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S2E1 Saskatchewan Training School
The Saskatchewan Training School in Moose Jaw operated for nearly 70 years, isolated on the bald prairie. This episode documents disabled resistance, and powerful refusals of any further…
S1E7 E7 Life and Death in Canada’s Institutions
In 2021, Canada expanded access to medical assistance in dying to all people with disabilities who suffer as a result of their condition. These expansions to MAiD come at a time when people labeled…
S1E6 E6 Group Homes
In Canada, institutions for people with intellectual/developmental disabilities have never closed, they have changed faces and names, but have remained responsible for the segregation and isolation…
S1E5 E5 Let’s Talk About Sex and Reproductive Justice
Throughout Canadian history provincial governments have worked to control the sexuality and reproduction of people with intellectual/developmental disabilities. For fifty years, Alberta’s Sexual…
S1E4 E4 Lifetimes in Long-Term Care
More than 150,000 people live in long-term care in Canada, and every single one of them is a person with a disability. Government’s use long-term care as a stop-gap solution to the housing & care…
S1E3 E3 Manitoba Developmental Centre
The Manitoba Development Centre (MDC) is one of few remaining large-scale government funded and operated institutions for people labelled with an intellectual/developmental disability in Western…
S1E2 E2 Sheltered Workshops
Sheltered Workshops are workplaces where people labelled with an intellectual/developmental disability are not paid fairly for the work they do. These programs promise training to prepare for…
S1E1 E1 The Institutions That Remain
For over a century, people labeled with intellectual/developmental disabilities were confined into large-scale, state-operated institutions across so-called-Canada. In these places, labeled people…
Trailer 2: Labour Exploitation
Invisible Institutions is a new documentary podcast about the institutionalization, exploitation and resistance of people labelled with intellectual/developmental disabilities.
Trailer: Locked In
Introducing Invisible Institutions, a new documentary podcast exploring the exploitation, isolation, resistance and survival of people labeled with intellectual/developmental disabilities.
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Invisible Institutions has published 10 episodes since February 2022, covering topics in Documentary, Society & Culture.
Invisible Institutions is currently sporadic with new episodes monthly. Average episode length is 48m.
