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Grief Refracted: Digital Storytelling as Liberatory Praxis

This project explores experiences of disenfranchised grief (Doka, 1989) with eight storytellers exploring grief and loss that is further disenfranchised by discrimination, marginalization, and oppression. The central question framing this project is: In what ways does collaborative story-making about grief and loss illuminate possibilities for liberatory praxis? A related question is: How do we resist […]

Hannah Fowlie

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Dispatches from Disabled Country: Book Launch with Catherine Frazee

A hybrid launch celebrating Catherine Frazee’s book Dispatches from Disabled Country was held online and in Room 707, Daphne Cockwell Complex, 288 Church Street, Toronto Metropolitan University, on Monday, May 29th from 2:00–3:30 p.m. Video created by Mathew Hon-phun Lui and produced by Bodies in Translation: Activist Art, Technology and Access to Life. From UBC […]

Catherine Frazee

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Deaf Interiors Documentary

Part 1: Deaf Joy Part 2: Artistic Practice Part 2.1 Part 2.2 Part 3: COVID-19 Response

Ebony R. GoodenMelissa BrunnerThurga KanagasekarampillaiShannon RusnakSyra HassanHodan IsmaelPeter Owusu-AnsahSage LovellJack HawkTracy TidgwellAlexandra Hickox

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Eco Soma Performances: Turtle Disco

Eco Soma: creative flights of connection that combine bodily, emotional, and imaginative responses. This report engages issues of community, bodily pain, and writing in the context of group somatic experiences. I will articulate eco soma methods, ways of writing/creating at the site of somatic experience in embedded webs. I will report from Turtle Disco, a small disability-led […]

Petra Kuppers

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The Street Belongs to Us: Eco-Social Pedagogies presented through a Children’s Novel

For the past dozen years I kept a children’s novel in my drawer, hoping one day to finish writing it between teaching, research, and meetings. The book began as a strategic challenge for myself, to write a queer children’s novel. While I was aware of some queer picture books and YA novels, I hadn’t read […]

Karleen Pendleton Jiménez

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vacuum sealed, wrap, slough inside, tiiick tok, puncture ‘n’ cut, crush into bloom

moira williams is a disabled indigenous artist, disability cultural activist and dreamer; weaving together cross-disability justice, celebratory crip-resistance, with eco-somatics and queer ecologies. moira’s ongoing work with water focuses on “access intimacy” and water intimacy as ways forward to accessible waterways. They are a Leonardo Crip Tech Incubator Fellow with the Mad Rad Lab at Berkeley […]

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Body Work, On-Body Work: Social Skin Revealing Caring Labour

The paper describes the ways body mapping elicited cognitive, affective, and un-surfaced reflections of the body as it engaged with political acts of caring in bodies of difference. Body mapping turns the body into a political and activist art piece. As articulated by Huss (2012), “in community art and art as social change, art can […]

Kimberly J. Lopez

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moira williams at Dance Party

This performance was a part of the conference Practicing the Social: Entanglements of Art and Justice, held online at GatherTown. Visit the Theatre at GatherTown (password: ps2022)

moira williams

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Welcome & Opening to Practicing the Social

Mona Stonefish (Bear Clan) is an Anishinaabe Onkwehón:we Elder, Doctor of Traditional Medicine, international activist, Senator of the Anishinaabemowin Teg – language preservation, a Keeper of Wisdom, and a Grandmother Water Walker. Mona Stonefish is also a member of the Native American Museum of Washington D.C., a traditional dancer, and recipient of the Queen Elizabeth II […]

Mona Stonefish

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Imagining Audiences as “Accomplices” in Performance Research

This paper will contribute to scholarly conversations that critically consider philosophical underpinnings of a newly emerging arts-based or research-creation paradigm as well as implications for the interrelationship among aesthetic mediation, cultural production and social critique/change (Conrad & Beck, 2015; Leavy, 2018; Parsons et al, 2017; Harris, Hunter & Hall, 2015; Denzin, 2017; Manning, 2016; O’Donoghue, […]

Julia Gray

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Vanessa Hernández Cruz

This was a part of Practicing the Social: Entanglements of Art and Justice, an online arts-based gathering that merged an artistic and scholarly program in engaging and accessible ways. Presenter Vanessa Hernández Cruz (she, her, hers) is an emerging Chicana disabled dancer, choreographer, filmmaker, mixed media artist, poet & an intersectional Disability Justice activist. She […]

Vanessa Hernández Cruz

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Generative Meetings Through Non-Assimilative Dance?

As a white settler dance artist and scholar, I am actively re-thinking my own relationships to land and travel through space and time and how movement can open generative non-assimilative social experiences of creativity. Agents of colonialism have used dance as a method to bolster white settler Canadian nationalism, forced assimilation and race betterment, with […]

Evadne Kelly

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Disability Arts and Crip Cultural Practices

Aging, Arts, Accessibility

Fat Activism

Critical Psychologies

Re•Storying Autism

Into the Light

Re•Vision Story-Making

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Grief Refracted: Digital Storytelling as Liberatory Praxis

Dispatches from Disabled Country: Book Launch with Catherine Frazee

Deaf Interiors Documentary

Eco Soma Performances: Turtle Disco

The Street Belongs to Us: Eco-Social Pedagogies presented through a Children’s Novel

vacuum sealed, wrap, slough inside, tiiick tok, puncture ‘n’ cut, crush into bloom

Body Work, On-Body Work: Social Skin Revealing Caring Labour

moira williams at Dance Party

Welcome & Opening to Practicing the Social

Imagining Audiences as “Accomplices” in Performance Research

Vanessa Hernández Cruz

Generative Meetings Through Non-Assimilative Dance?