This column is an opinion by Frances Koziar, a young disabled retiree and social justice advocate living in Kingston, Ont. For more information about CBC’s Opinion section, please see the FAQ.
In the first months of the pandemic, I felt a spark of hope — dangerous, as hope always is when you are an outcast — that the national conversations springing up around money might finally teach people how wrong they are about us. That the stereotypes suggesting those of us living below the poverty line are all crazy, lazy, dirty, violent and untrustworthy (how long do you have?) are just comforting lies told so the financially privileged
