Living Through It: Digital Crip Time in Ontario, Canada

Abstract

Structural violence is a topic not commonly discussed in the context of Ontario, Canada, and the province’s healthcare institutions. This thesis project analyzes the researcher’s lived experience as a transgender, disabled student navigating digital administrative systems within the context of receiving care through Ontario's public healthcare, and the digital technologies which administer their life both inside and outside of the healthcare context. This thesis is highly novel, experimental, and current in both methodology and content. This thesis argues that structural violence is inherent to digital technologies which administer the Ontario public healthcare system, punishing the individuals who rely on Ontario’s administrative healthcare technologies the most (disabled populations, transgender populations, and other marginalized communities). Results show that community interpersonal engagement, information accessibility, and collaboration across intersectional identities are the starting points for reforming the digital technologies which administer the Ontario public healthcare system. To find the creative component which compliments this paper, please visit http://livingthroughit.com