COVID‐19 affects women in ways unique to the impacts of structural inequalities related to gender, sexuality, disability, race, and socioeconomic status. In this article, we reflect on our own experiences of the pandemic, as feminist students, workers, and sexual assault resistance educators located in a Canadian post‐secondary setting. Situating ourselves within feminist responses to sexual violence prevention, as facilitators of the EAAA sexual assault resistance education program for university women, we reflect on the impacts of the COVID‐19 pandemic on our work as EAAA facilitators in our Canadian university. We explore the theoretical possibilities that critical disability theory and queer theory present to the EAAA program, and argue that incorporating concepts from these frameworks will complement the goals of the EAAA program and improve inclusivity of queer, trans, and disabled participants. We conclude with a look into the future by anticipating the impacts of COVID‐19 on our future work.

This reflective piece, written by a woman with an eating disorder aims to identify the impact of COVID-19 on persons living with eating disorders and provide a social justice approach as a resolution. The author identifies that eating disorder behaviors may be the only coping tool available for many persons with eating disorders during this time of uncertainty. While she acknowledges the risks associated with eating disorder behaviors, she identifies that this time of uncertainty may be a time to embrace harm-reduction in approaching the health and wellness of persons with eating disorders.

This letter identifies the potential of qualitative eating disorder research to work within a transformative paradigm that naturalizes the state of living with an eating disorder. The number of qualitative research publications with persons living with eating disorders have increased, however, a substantive proportion of this qualitative research follows traditional research paradigms that are built upon the assumption that eating disorders signify a personal deficit. Transformative qualitative eating disorder research has potential to include those living with eating disorders in all stages of the research process to ensure that research leads to the de-stigmatization of eating disorders promoting health, wellbeing, and quality of life for persons living with eating disorders.

Ontario overhauled their autism program in 2019 seeking to replace the flexible service-or funding-based 2018 Ontario Autism Program with a cash-based benefit called the Childhood Budgets program. Using Grounded Theory and Participatory Action Research, with a Structural Social Work and Critical Autism Studies lens, I usedone-to-one interviews to ask four autistic adults in Ottawa, Ontario, their perspectives of autism funding and Applied Behaviour Analysis in Ontario. Participants reflected on how they identified with autism to frame their discussions in this research using prevalence rates of autism to exemplify a need to "demystify" and "de-monstrify" autism (Participant 'Tom,' A personal communication, Sept 25, 2019). Participants highlighted the importance of enjoying supports and services. They identified that supports could improve through increasing adult services and by teaching self-advocacy skills. Some participants did not trust the school system because of inadequate or inappropriate provision of support. Participants found that schools could improve by giving autistic students skills to "work in the real world" and de-instituting exclusionary practices (Participant 'James, ' A personal communication, Oct 29, 2019). The lack of adequate funding, services, and supports for autism in Ontario may have increased some of the participants' use of medication. Participants acknowledged that medications could help and harm, but "can't really solve a problem." (Participant 'Tom,' A personal communication, Sept 25, 2019) Participants wanted inclusive policy-making opportunities for autistic people. All agreed that some of the costs for services should be covered, because paying can "sometimes make it look like the autistic child's a burden." (Participant 'Philip, ' A personal communication, Oct 22, 2019) This research iii demonstrates that autistic adults are willing to take part in policy discussions surrounding autism while advocating that autistic perspectives be considered when creating new autism programs.

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