Worlding Difference Knowledge Platform
Imagine new accessible worlds and ways of being together on a platform built for difference
How to Use the BIT Knowledge Platform
Learn and Teach about Disability and Mind-Body Difference
For students and instructors, learning modules centre the work of artists, activists and scholars with mind-body differences.
Experience the Vitality of Difference Through the Arts
Art-filled curricula, virtual galleries, and the BIT Artist Directory showcase non-normative arts and artists.
Develop Your Personal Collection
Sign up for your free member account to save, curate, and share resources from across the platform.
Modules
Learning Modules Engage and Centre Difference
Learning modules are designed to encourage critical thinking about dominant understandings of difference. They feature interactive, multimedia teaching and learning activities on a growing collection of topics including aging arts, fat activism, disability arts and crip culture, the legacy of eugenics, and digital storymaking. Each learning module is organized into themed sections for customized integration into course content.
Art is at the Heart of our Platform
Illustrations commissioned by BIT from artists in the disability and non-normative arts communities animate the Knowledge Platform.
Featured Exhibitions
In collaboration with Tangled Art + Disability, the BIT Knowledge Platform shares gallery documentation of path-breaking exhibitions from the leading showcase of disability arts in Canada.
We collaborate with the community
The BIT Knowledge Platform brings together critical scholarship from over 200 contributors, including an archive of 170 original scholarly articles with 100 available through open access. It also features works by more than 110 activist artists, including original illustrations, online gallery exhibitions, videos, and digital stories.
We support our community’s artists
The BIT Artist Directory highlights artists who are exploring activism and social, cultural and political resistance in their practice. Check out our featured artists, and sign up for your profile!
Into the Light: An Interpretation of Two Research Papers
Directed and performed by Jessie Huggett and Rachel Gray, this film is an interpretation of the following 2021 research papers: “Projecting Eugenics and Performing Knowledges” by Evadne Kelly, Seika Boye, and Carla Rice, and “Elements of a Counter‐exhibition: Excavating and Countering a Canadian History and Legacy of Eugenics” by Evadne Kelly, Dolleen Tisawii’ashii Manning, Seika Boye, Carla Rice, Dawn Owen, Sky Stonefish, and Mona Stonefish.
Terminology Explained
Use the Activate Glossary option on the menu at the right of your screen to show definitions for key terms. You can also view the Glossary as a full, searchable list of terms. We continually update our glossary to reflect changing ways of thinking, and often feature multiple definitions to show a range of perspectives on important issues.
Check out the Glossary here, and see it in action.
