Journal Article

Differences as potentials: A posthuman re-envisioning of disability and mobility

Drawing on a posthuman onto-epistemology, this paper explores movements of bodies labelled-as-disabled as creative ‘choreographies’ that are coproduced through the coming together of multiple material, social, discursive and affective forces across time-spaces. The purpose is to challenge thinking as usual towards re-envisioning differences as potentials rather than deficits. To do so, we consider how disability […]

Barbara GibsonCarla RiceBrenda GladstoneJulia GrayEvadne KellyDonya MoslehBhavnita Mistry

Journal Article

Resisting normality with cultural accessibility and slow technology

Though the Covid-19 virus continues to circulate, there is an increasing insistence that the world “return to normal.” In this paper we resist this pull to normalcy and the way it devalues the knowledges, vitality, and livelihoods of disabled people. We examine the crip technoscience practices used during the 2022 digital gathering Practicing the Social: […]

Megan JohnsonEliza ChandlerCarla Rice

Journal Article

Looking Back and Looking Forward: Men and Masculinity in Psychological Research on Violence Against Women

In this paper, we systematically and critically review the past decade of empirical psychological research (n = 132) on masculinity and violence against women (VAW) to demonstrate an overreliance on individualist and “culturalist” (or culturally essentialist) approaches to theorizing and studying masculinity. Individualist and essentialist approaches assume that masculinity is something men are or possess […]

Nicole JeffreyCarla RiceOlga Smoliak

Journal Article

Enacting reciprocity and solidarity: Critical access as methodology

Drawing on the growing field of critical access studies, this paper positions critical access as a research methodology that aligns with feminist praxis and disability politics. We begin by mapping our central concept in relation to literature on feminist disability studies, crip methodology, feminist methodology, and critical access. We then demonstrate critical access methodology in […]

Eliza ChandlerMegan JohnsonChelsea Temple JonesElisabeth HarrisonCarla Rice

Journal Article

In the wake of canada’s violent eugenic legacies: An urgency to ReVision Fitness

Eugenics is often misunderstood as a historical set of practices that mobilized outside of canada and ended after World War II. Less is known about canada’s influence on and participation in the practices/ideologies/movement, and even less about how contemporary fitness practices continue to be tethered to eugenics. ReVisioning Fitness aims to counter/refuse eugenic-infused fitness regimes […]

Aly BaileyMeredith BesseyCarla RiceEvadne KellyTara-Leigh McHughSalima PunjaniBongi DubePaul TshumaKayla BesseSkylar SookpaiboonSeeley Quest

Journal Article

Revisioning Fitness through a relational community of practice: Conditions of possibility for access intimacies and body-becoming pedagogies through art making

ReVisioning Fitness is a research project and community of practice (CoP) working to reconceptualize “fitness” through a radical embrace of difference (e.g., trans, non-binary, queer, Black, people of colour, disabled, and/or fat, thick/thicc, curvy, plus sized), and a careful theorising of inclusion and access. Our collaborative and arts-based work mounts collective resistance against the dominant […]

Meredith BesseyAly BaileyKayla BesseCarla RiceSalima PunjaniTara-Leigh McHugh

Journal Article

On heartbreak, livelihoods and art: Affect and crip desire in art making assemblages

This article explores the affective dimensions of disabled, D/deaf, mad, and neurodiverse artists’ work through a livelihoods framework informed by the social and tacit dimensions of heartbreak. Heartbreak emerged during interviews with twenty artists in Canada in 2020, during a time of significant state-based policy changes that impacted disabled people’s livelihoods in the province of […]

Kim CollinsChelsea Temple JonesCarla Rice

Journal Article

The third shift: Addressing emotion work in couple therapy

Research on the gendered division of household work in western political economies often neglects its emotional dimensions. This conceptual paper draws on concepts of emotion work and feminist care ethics to explore gendered and intersecting divisions of emotions and emotional work in couple relationships and their implications for couple therapy. Although emotion work has been […]

Olga SmoliakKaldeiah Al-AliAmanda LeCouteurEleftheria TseliouCarla RiceAndrea LaMarreAdam DaviesBianca UguccioniLainey StirlingBrody DechamplainSarah Henshaw

Journal Article

Episodic disability in the neoliberal university: Stories from the Canadian context

This article explores how episodic disability (ED) is created and intensified by, present within, and pushed out of the neoliberalized academy in Canada. ED is an umbrella term for a range of physical, mental, and neurological conditions characterized by fluctuation and unpredictability. Over two million working-age Canadians are affected by ED, with women more likely […]

Carla RiceElisabeth HarrisonCarla GiddingsSally ChiversSonia MeeraiHilde Zitzelsberger

Journal Article

Towards decolonial choreographies of co-resistance

This article engages movement as a methodology for understanding the creative coalition work that we carried out for a project series called Into the Light (ITL) that used research from university archives to mount a museum exhibition and then develop an interactive public education site that counters histories and ongoing realities of colonial eugenics and […]

Evadne KellyCarla RiceMona Stonefish

Journal Article

The problem of heteronormativity in family-based health promotion: Centring gender transformation in Ontario, Canada

Objectives Social scientists have demonstrated that family health work is interlinked with heteronormative gender inequities. Yet family-based public health interventions rarely incorporate a gender transformative approach or address heteronormativity as a potential health barrier in North America. Instead, attention to gender surfaces primarily in family health interventions conducted in low- to middle-income countries with majority […]

Julia Gruson-WoodJennifer (Jess) HainesCarla RiceGwenneth Chapman

Journal Article

Performing fat liberation: Pretty Porky and Pissed Off’s affective politics and archive

This article uses collaborative auto/ethnography to explore the circulation and potentiality of affect in the live performances and archive of Pretty Porky and Pissed Off (PPPOd), a Toronto-based queer fat activist performance art collective active during the late 1990s and mid-2000s. Drawing on video and audio recordings of five PPPOd performances alongside other performance ephemera […]

Allison TaylorAllyson MitchellCarla Rice

Learning Modules

Disability Arts and Crip Cultural Practices

Aging, Arts, Accessibility

Fat Activism

Critical Psychologies

Re•Storying Autism

Into the Light

Re•Vision Story-Making

Filter results

Differences as potentials: A posthuman re-envisioning of disability and mobility

Resisting normality with cultural accessibility and slow technology

Looking Back and Looking Forward: Men and Masculinity in Psychological Research on Violence Against Women

Enacting reciprocity and solidarity: Critical access as methodology

In the wake of canada’s violent eugenic legacies: An urgency to ReVision Fitness

Revisioning Fitness through a relational community of practice: Conditions of possibility for access intimacies and body-becoming pedagogies through art making

On heartbreak, livelihoods and art: Affect and crip desire in art making assemblages

The third shift: Addressing emotion work in couple therapy

Episodic disability in the neoliberal university: Stories from the Canadian context

Towards decolonial choreographies of co-resistance

The problem of heteronormativity in family-based health promotion: Centring gender transformation in Ontario, Canada

Performing fat liberation: Pretty Porky and Pissed Off’s affective politics and archive