Students are invited to explore how and why some lives have come to matter less than others, how this inequality is institutionalized in policies and practices of ableism, colonialism, racism, sexism and other forms of oppression, and how those marginalized have resisted this. The course will start from a disability standpoint as a way to think intersectionally about the various forms of oppression and domination, as well as resistance to them, with a focus on the Canadian context.