Publications - Worlding Difference

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

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

Book

Fat Studies in Canada: (Re)Mapping the Field

Fat Studies in Canada: (Re)Mapping the Field re-envisions what it means to be fat in the colonial project known as Canada, exploring the unique ways that fat studies theorists, academics, artists, and activists are troubling and thickening existing fat studies literature. Weaving together academic articles and alternative forms of narration, including visual art and poetry, […]

Allison TaylorKelsey IoannoniRamanpreet Annie BahraCalla EvansAmanda ScriverMay Friedman

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

Carrying stories: Digital storytelling and the complexities of intimacy, relationality, and home spaces

Over the past decade, we have worked alongside storytellers to bring their stories into the world. These encounters have been challenging, exciting, and intimate. In this paper, we reflect on a digital/multimedia storytelling project in which we engaged with people who have experienced weight stigma in fertility, pregnancy, and motherhood care. We use the metaphors […]

Andrea LaMarreCarla RiceMay FriedmanHannah Fowlie

Journal Article

Storytelling methods on the move

This article takes up multimedia storytelling and interference as methods on the move in and beyond critical Autism studies and considers their contributions to post and qualitative studies in education. We write as a collective of Autistic and non-Autistic researchers, kin, artists, and educators. We think generatively about the tensions of trying to do anti-normative […]

Raya ShieldsJulia Gruson-WoodMargaret F. GibsonPatty DouglasCarla RiceSteacy Easton

Journal Article

“Our bodies are more than our bodies”: Expanding social work understandings of race and fat

In this article, we want to explore the ways that racism and fat hatred are intrinsically connected. These connections occur in both individual experiences of body shame and empowerment, but also within bigger systemic inequalities that have historically connected hatred of size and colour, and in contemporary realities in which rhetoric of “obesity” is used […]

May FriedmanSonia Meerai

Learning Modules

Disability Arts and Crip Cultural Practices

Aging, Arts, Accessibility

Fat Activism

Into the Light

Re•Vision Story-Making

Filter projects

Resisting normality with cultural accessibility and slow technology

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

Fat Studies in Canada: (Re)Mapping the Field

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

Carrying stories: Digital storytelling and the complexities of intimacy, relationality, and home spaces

Storytelling methods on the move

“Our bodies are more than our bodies”: Expanding social work understandings of race and fat