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Thea Kurdi 🍁

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TEDx, Keynote, Built Environment Accessible Design Critic | Speaker, Author, Princess Leia was my princess | Made in Canada

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Thea Kurdi 🍁 @tkurdi.bsky.social · Nov 21

For those who may not know me or who are new here from X/Twitter, built environment accessibility and universal design is specialty. And I love to teach!

I'm also disabled with several invisible disabilities and advocate for overhaul of design legislation and education.

My goal? Culture change.

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Accessibility Awareness @a11yawareness.bsky.social · Jul 17

If you feel like you don't know what you don't know about accessibility, it can help to follow folks who discuss assistive technology, accessibility and disability. Here's a Bluesky list of people who post a lot about those topics.

bsky.app/profile/a11y...

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PEIPolitical 🇨🇦 @peipolitical.bsky.social · Jul 8

“Ford said you wouldn’t need credit card for healthcare! That’s BULL!
He underfunds system then pays extra to privateers. Ford takes from public to profit pals: Ontario Place, Science Centre, surgeries! It’s sickening!” #cdnpoli

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Thea Kurdi 🍁 @tkurdi.bsky.social · Jun 29

Thank you ❤️

Thea Kurdi 🍁 @tkurdi.bsky.social · Jun 23

@cbcnews-rss.bsky.social new disability rights article includes my feedback about how building code and accessibility legislation yet again failed to deliver equity, dignity or even a usable path this Ontario municipality's building.

Read the article at:
www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
#HumanRights

Callander woman files Ontario human rights complaint arguing municipal building lacks accessiblility | CBC News

A Callander woman who uses a wheelchair has filed a complaint with the Human Rights Tribunal of Ontario, naming the municipality and the province, over her concerns around accessibility at the norther...

www.cbc.ca

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Thea Kurdi 🍁 @tkurdi.bsky.social · Jun 22

Pierre is in the group uninterested in making these relationships. Like Trump he wants to break democracy.

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Thea Kurdi 🍁 @tkurdi.bsky.social · Jun 20

Thought you might find this interesting scgpdxsf.bsky.social

Lanark (@scgpdxsf.bsky.social)

Systems & requirements, politics and legal news refugee from the birdsite. Bistatual. Futbol, basketball, cats, but not all at the same time. Coffee. Yes, coffee. DMs mostly ignored.

scgpdxsf.bsky.social

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Thea Kurdi 🍁 @tkurdi.bsky.social · Jun 19

Are you attending the 2025 Disability Inclusive Pathways Conference July 15 and 16?
I've been invited to be 1 of the panelists for the
‘Making our environments work for kaimahi and customers alike’ session.
Learn more and register at www.dipc.nz

#Accessibility #conference #Disability #business

Poster promoting my involvement with the 2025 Disability Inclusive Pathways Conference, 15-16 July, Auckland, New Zealand. A round portrait photo of Thea sits on the left of text that reads: Thea Kurdi, Founder – The Accessibility Edge. Accessibility Critic, Universal Design educator and policy specialist. Environments panel – ‘Making our environments work for kaimahi and customers alike’. Proudly hosted by the New Zealand Disability Employers’ Network. Register at www.dipc.nz

Thea Kurdi 🍁 @tkurdi.bsky.social · Jun 19

Looking forward to giving the presentation I've been invited to give today to the @accessiblehousgnet.bsky.social about how smart green design also makes buildings and #housing accessible. There's nothing more #sustainable than #accessibility - demographics, durability, affordability, health, etc.

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Accessibility Awareness @a11yawareness.bsky.social · Jun 19

The hashtag #accessibility allows you to find lots of accessibility-related resources on Bluesky, LinkedIn, and other platforms that use hashtags. To find accessibility resources in Spanish, use the hashtag #accesibilidad. The hashtag #accessibilité helps you find resources in French.

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Thea Kurdi 🍁 @tkurdi.bsky.social · Jun 19

Have you seen the Getting to Work: Accessible Employment in Canada Report from the Chief #Accessibility Officer, 2024?
Get your copy or read it online at:
www.canada.ca/en/employmen...

That's me at the top of page 7.
Important recommendations (see page 50 of the report) @mark-carney.bsky.social

Cover of the Getting to Work: Accessible Employment in Canada Report from the Chief Accessibility Officer, 2024. Cover includes a blind brown man dressed in stylish closes, using a cane as he crosses a street at an intersection with cars waiting behind him and other people on the sidewalk.

Photo at the top of page 7 of Thea Kurdi looking contemplatively off to the right with her arms crossed while leaning against a wall in the materials sample room used by Architectural Technology and Interior Design students at Sheridan College's Square One campus.

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Thea Kurdi 🍁 @tkurdi.bsky.social · Jun 8

#TeachableMoment
Historic old town in Spain offers solution to overcome the old step up from the street outside problem with a gentle slope ramp inside the entry door. Such an elegant solution.
It can be done! ¡Olé!

#AccessibleCanada #ADA #DDR #EAA #CRPD #disability #accessibility #BillionStrong

Restaurant in historic old town in Spain offers solution to overcome the old step up from the street outside problem with a gentle slope ramp inside the entry door.

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Catherine 🇨🇦 🌎 @capeacadia.bsky.social · Jun 2

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Barack Obama @barackobama.bsky.social · Jun 2

Here's something everybody should be paying attention to: Congressional Republicans are trying to weaken the Affordable Care Act and put millions of people at risk of losing their health care. Call your Senators and tell them we can't let that happen.

Shhh. Republicans are trying to repeal Obamacare again. Sort of.

They’re not branding it an Obamacare repeal this time around, but congressional Republicans are pursuing cuts to programs that are part of the 15-year-old health-care law.

www.washingtonpost.com

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Michael Moore @vpwithbmd.bsky.social · Jun 1

#Pride isn’t just a party. It’s a powerful, joyful act of resistance and community. Happy Pride Month!🌈 #Pride2025

Bitmoji of smiling Michael Moore wearing a black t shirt with a large progress rainbow flag heart. He is sitting in a wheelchair and waving a progressive rainbow flag in his left hand.

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Thea Kurdi 🍁 @tkurdi.bsky.social · May 29

Including disabled Canadians and tourists. We urgently need you to fix the oversight of the missing Minister of Disabled Persons. We need to ensure all the new building happening doesn’t make all the same discriminatory mistakes of the past.

#AccessibleCanada

Thea Kurdi 🍁 @tkurdi.bsky.social · May 28

Do you have a quick accessible building design question you need answered?
Excited to announce this new service from Level Playing Field is now available!
Learn more at:
www.linkedin.com/posts/darby-...

#NAAW2025 #NAAW #AccessibleCanada #ADA #AODA #architecture #InteriorDesign #UrbanPlanning

Accessibility Helpline | Level Playing Field | Darby Lee Young ♿️ ADAC

🚨 Breaking News from LPF! 🚨 We’ve launched our Accessibility Helpline, now live on our website! Whether you're a building owner, facility manager, or design professional, we know accessibility qu...

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Thea Kurdi 🍁 @tkurdi.bsky.social · May 28

@mark-carney.bsky.social please ensure your mandates are aligned with the 40 year old changes to the Canadian Charter and Human Rights Code which recognize disabled Canadians as equal citizens. We need a Minister to sheppard the #AccessibleCanada Act, the #DisabilityBenefit, and changes to education

Thea Kurdi 🍁 @tkurdi.bsky.social · May 27

National AccessAbility Awareness Week

Accessibility is the evolution of architecture, policy, legislation, business, and all design.

It's time we evolve and right size and right cost.

Prime Minister #MarkCarney bring down these barriers! Invest in justice.

#NAAW2025 #NAAW #disability #inclusion

Thea Kurdi 🍁 @tkurdi.bsky.social · May 25

Quote from John Pavlovitz posted on social media, "Saying your anti-woke is a whole lot quicker than saying you're a selfish and fearful human being who is terrified of diversity, hostile to progress, and wants no one else to have the rights, representation, love or opportunity you have.

#woke #DEI

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PEIPolitical 🇨🇦 @peipolitical.bsky.social · May 25

This is why Canadians will NEVER buy American dairy products. #cdnpoli
Butter Recalled in 7 States Over Possible Fecal Contamination.
www.newsweek.com/butter-recal...

Butter recalled in 7 states over possible fecal contamination

Contaminated dairy products are among the most common sources of such bacterial outbreaks, making early detection and recall critical for public health.

www.newsweek.com

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Thea Kurdi 🍁 @tkurdi.bsky.social · May 22

By not appointing a Minister for Disabled Persons you are proving the late Hon. David Onley's point at how systemic ableism is in government.
We need a Minister to sheppard the #AccessibleCanada Act which is 5 years old and still mostly languishing. Be the PM for all Canadians including us disabled

Old tweet from the late Hon. David Onley, former Lieutenant Governor of Ontario, "Ableism permeates our governimg structures so deeply, is so embedded into all processes that the ableds within are utterly oblivious. PWDs are afterthoughts but only when thr ableds are reminded and at that, only when they get around to it.

Thea Kurdi 🍁 @tkurdi.bsky.social · May 20

Please add the Minister of Disabled Persons to ensure the #AccessibleCanada Act and the equity we've been waiting for as promised 40 years ago under the Canadian Charter & Human Rights laws require. Don’t let ableism & bias win. 100% of Canadians are born with and get disabilities. You can fix this

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Thea Kurdi 🍁 @tkurdi.bsky.social · May 20

I have my 1st poll question on my YouTube channel!
Target audience: those creating buildings & built environment designs.
Help by answering & sharing at:
youtube.com/post/UgkxOCS...

#AccessibleCanada #accessibility #UniversalDesign #architecture #InteriorDesign #Landscape #UrbanPlanning #education

Poll from Accessibility Edge - YouTube

What accessibility and universal design resource would you like more?

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Gareth Gore @garethgore.bsky.social · May 14

Pope Leo meets Opus Dei boss in a private audience to get an "update" on its reforms

You might recall Opus Dei cancelled a vote on its reforms hours after Francis passed away

Leo "listened with great interest to the explanations given" - I bet he did!

opusdei.org/es/article/a...

El Papa León XIV recibe en audiencia al prelado del Opus Dei

El Santo Padre ha recibido en audiencia hoy al prelado del Opus Dei, Mons. Fernando Ocáriz.

opusdei.org

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Krassensteins @krassenstein.bsky.social · May 10

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