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Access after COVID-19: How disability culture can transform life and work

When COVID-19 first struck in Canada, media reports described a surge of deaths in long-term care homes, retirement homes and congregate residences. Headlines announced the particular dangers of COVID-19 to older people, disabled people, fat people and people with “comorbidities” or “pre-existing conditions.” Authorities sometimes mentioned the underfunding of the care sector, poor wages, unjust […]

Carla RiceEliza ChandlerElisabeth HarrisonLacey Croft

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How a radical form of accessibility is pushing the boundaries of theatre performance

A discussion of relaxed performance in theatre performance. Rice, C., & Besse, K. (2020, January 7). How a radical form of accessibility is pushing the boundaries of theatre performance. The Conversation. https://theconversation.com/how-a-radical-form-of-accessibility-is-pushing-the-boundaries-of-theatre-performance-125797

Carla RiceKayla Besse

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Pushing the boundaries: A radical form of accessible theatre performance

Have you ever been nervous about going to the theatre? Maybe you’re unfamiliar with theatre etiquette, maybe you have children or maybe you find it hard to stay still for hours, feeling trapped in your seat. In Shakespeare’s day, theatregoers drank, ate and socialized their way through performance. Rice, C., & Besse, K. (2020). Pushing […]

Carla RiceKayla Besse

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Translation roundtable

Disability art, a burgeoning artistic practice in Canada/this north part of Turtle Island, takes the experience of disability as a creative entry point. Drawing on the insights of disability scholar and activist Catherine Frazee (2008), not all disability art explicitly represents disability, but all of it springs from the experience, politics, and culture of disability. […]

Alex BulmerCarmen PapaliaEliza ChandlerElwood JimmyGloria SwainJenelle RouseSky StonefishTaeyoon ChoiTracy TidgwellVanessa Dion Fletcher

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Universities must open their archives and share their oppressive pasts

A brief overview of gaining access to the University of Guelph’s archives to develop a co-created, multimedia and multi-sensory exhibition at the Guelph Civic Museum called Into the Light: Eugenics and Education in Southern Ontario which explored the University’s history of teaching eugenics. Kelly, E., & Rice, C. (2020, January 16). Universities must open their […]

Carla RiceEvadne Kelly

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Writing new bodies in digital fiction

Writing New Bodies: Critical Co-design for 21st Century Digital-born Bibliotherapy is a research project funded by a Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council Insight Grant (2018-2020). Using methods of feminist participatory action research and critical community co-design to develop an interactive digital story app (i.e., digital fiction), this project creates a tool for media-enhanced bibliotherapy […]

Aly BaileyAstrid EnsslinCarla RiceChristine WilksHannah FowlieLauren MunroMegan PerramSarah Riley

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Accessibility: Pushing the boundaries of theatre performance

Have you ever been nervous about going to the theatre? Maybe you’re unfamiliar with theatre etiquette, maybe you have children, or maybe you find it hard to stay still for hours feeling trapped in your seat. In Shakespeare’s day, theatergoers drank, ate and socialized their way through a performance. Rice, C., & Besse, K. (2020, […]

Carla RiceKayla Besse

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Building solidarity in celebrating difference

The following article was written in honour of Indigenous Disability Awareness Month observed annually in November. Stonefish, M., Rice, C., Hutton, S., Kelly, E., & Boye, S. (2019, October 16). Building solidarity in celebrating difference. ARCH Disability Law Centre ARCH Alert 20(1). https://archdisabilitylaw.ca/arch_alert/volume20-issue3/#building-solidarity-in-celebrating-difference

Carla RiceEvadne KellyMona StonefishSeika BoyeSue Hutton

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ReFrame film encourages “new possibilities” in dementia experiences.

Time Travel, which screened on January 26, 2019 at the ReFrame Film Festival in Nogojiwanong/Peterborough, Ontario delves into the world of dementia and the relationships between those with the illness and the people whose lives they share. McCullough, M. (2019, January 21). ReFrame film encourages “new possibilities” in dementia experiences. Journey Magazine. https://journeymagazineptbo.com/2019/01/21/reframe-film-encourages-new-possibilities-in-dementia-experiences/

Melodie McCullough

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On the complexity of cripping the arts

In the wake of Bill C-81, “an act to ensure a barrier free Canada,” and the Canada Council’s accessibility and equity research initiatives, the attention to deaf, disability and mad arts is growing. The aim, now, is for organizations to realize commitments to accessibility by developing methods of inclusion that are as creative as their […]

Christiana Myers

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Phantom, stills & vibrations: An interview with Lara Kramer

We stare through the glass and glance down at the microphones in front of us. We slip on our headsets and take in a faint musty smell as we wait in Trent Radio’s Studio Two. I sit next to Nadine Changfoot, professor in political studies at Trent University, as we wait anxiously to speak with […]

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Access after COVID-19: How disability culture can transform life and work

How a radical form of accessibility is pushing the boundaries of theatre performance

Pushing the boundaries: A radical form of accessible theatre performance

Translation roundtable

Universities must open their archives and share their oppressive pasts

Writing new bodies in digital fiction

Accessibility: Pushing the boundaries of theatre performance

Building solidarity in celebrating difference

ReFrame film encourages “new possibilities” in dementia experiences.

On the complexity of cripping the arts

Phantom, stills & vibrations: An interview with Lara Kramer