Critical Disability Discourses

About the Journal

York University’s Critical Disability Studies Graduate Program is happy to welcome you to our journal, Critical Disability Discourses/Discours critiques dans le champ du handicap (CDD-DCCH). CDD is a bilingual, interdisciplinary journal that publishes articles that focus on experiences of disability from a critical perspective. The Journal appeals to junior scholars in the social sciences and humanities or all disciplines interested in disability rights, advocacy, community organizing, and policy-making affecting people with disabilities. CDD, managed by graduate students, is published under the auspices and with the support of the faculty of the Critical Disability Studies program in the Faculty of Health at York University. Our objective is to create an academic space where emerging disability studies scholars can make valuable contributions to the expanding field of critical disability studies. 

For more information about the Critical Disability Studies Graduate program, please visit our website at: https://www.yorku.ca/gradstudies/cds/.

Announcements

CDD/DCCH Volume 11 (Issue 1) (Special Issue: Forensic inpatients story in-hospital experiences)

2026-05-20

The first issue of the eleventh volume of Critical Disability Discourses is now available online:

https://cdd.journals.yorku.ca/index.php/cdd/issue/view/2273

Le premier numéro du onzième volume de Critical Discourses est désormais disponible en ligne:

https://cdd.journals.yorku.ca/index.php/cdd/issue/view/2273

Read more about CDD/DCCH Volume 11 (Issue 1) (Special Issue: Forensic inpatients story in-hospital experiences)

Current Issue

Vol. 11 No. 1 (2026): Special Issue: Forensic inpatients story their in-hospital experience through essays, poems, lyrics, and song

Not criminally responsible (NCR) inpatients were invited to submit original works that speak to their in-hospital experience. The collection that follows is unique, as no other peer-reviewed journal, edited book collection, periodical, or activist publication has dedicated an entire themed issue to NCR inpatients, platforming their stories as sole authors and researchers of themes central to inpatient life. This curated issue is a critical corrective to address the absence of literature on NCR inpatients engaged in research on matters that matter most to them.

Published: 2026-05-20

Editorials

Essays defining NCR and in-hospital privileges

Contrasting perspectives at Southwest (Letters to the editor)

Poetry and song about in-hospital feelings

Inpatient educational experiences

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