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Resources
Book Chapter
- The big colonial bones of Indigenous North America’s “obesity epidemic.
- Digital storytelling: Tools, techniques and traditions
- “May my children always have milk and rice”: Problematizing the role of mothers in childhood fatness in India
- Reading and affirming alternatives in the academy: Black fat queer femme embodiment
- Embodying the fat/trans intersection
- Resistance in relationship: Mothers’ armoring of their adolescent daughters living with facial difference
- Cripping the ethics of disability arts research
- Digital storytelling
- Girls and sexting: The missing story of sexual subjectivity in a sexualized and digitally-mediated world
- Imagining otherwise: The ephemeral spaces of envisioning new meanings
- Representing difference: Disability, digital storytelling, and public pedagogy
- Revisioning fat: From enforcing norms to exploring possibilities unique to different bodies
- Through the Mirror of Beauty Culture
- Volatile bodies and vulnerable researchers: Ethical risks of embodiment research
- Introduction to Thickening Fat
- Recovering bodies: The production of the recoverable subject in eating disorder treatment regimes
- Medicalization, maternity, and the materiality of resistance: “Maternal obesity” and experiences of reproductive care
- Fat Camp: A conversation on YA fiction, fat shame, and queer love
- Taking up space in the doctor’s office: How my racialized fat body confronts medical discourse
- Dismantling the Empire: In Defense of Incoherence and Intersectionality
- Power, agency, aging, and cognitive impairment: The stories of two women
- “Hey, little fat kid”: My impaired, fat, hairy, white, male body
- You’re just another friggin’ number to add to the problem”: Constructing the racialized (m)other in contemporary discourses of pregnancy fatness
- Aging and disability: The paradoxical positions of the chronological life course
- Fat pedagogy for queers: Chicana body becoming in four acts
- Photographing fatness: Resisting assimilation through fat activist calendars
- Direct funded home care for older adults: Exploring the legacies of disability activism
- Projecting eugenics and performing knowledges
- Disability, age, the British countryside and social exclusion
- Oppressive liberation: BBW bashes and the affective rollercoaster
- Regulation of “care” in long-term care home in Ontario, Canada
- Tracing fatness through the eating disorder assemblage
- Unrecoverable? Prescriptions and possibilities for eating disorder recovery
- Dancing in and out of control
- Queering fat activism: A study in whiteness
- From “Boomer” to “Zoomer”: Exploring cultural understandings of aging with vitality under neoliberal capitalism
- Origin stories: Thickening fat and the problem of historiography
- Deconstructing dependency and development in global dementia policy
- Working towards the affirmation of fatness and impairment
- Age disability, and encounters with care: Older people’s experiences of home care
- Thinking into aging-disability nexuses: A dialogue between two scholars
- Critiquing the DSM-V narrative of “obesity” as “mental llness.”
- No bad fatties allowed?: Negotiating the meaning and power of the mutable body
- Spectres of unproductive life: The aging-disability-dementia complex
- Strange Beauty: Aesthetic possibilities for desiring disability into the future
- Aging with and into disability: Futurities of new materialisms
- Strengthening our activisms at the intersections of the personal, professional, disability, and aging
- Aging and disability in the time of AIDS: Reflections from community-based research with older women caregivers in South Africa
- Cripping care advice: Austerity, advice literature, and the troubled link between disability and old age
- Thick sistahs and heavy disprivilege: Black women, intersectionality, and weight stigma
- Bodies in e-lit
Journal Article
- Performing fat liberation: Pretty Porky and Pissed Off’s affective politics and archive
- On being the “fat person”: Possibilities and pitfalls for fat activist engagement in academic institutions
- The problem of heteronormativity in family-based health promotion: Centring gender transformation in Ontario, Canada
- Towards decolonial choreographies of co-resistance
- Episodic disability in the neoliberal university: Stories from the Canadian context
- The third shift: Addressing emotion work in couple therapy
- Stretching Our Stories (SOS): Digital worldmaking in troubled times
- “Our bodies are more than our bodies”: Expanding social work understandings of race and fat
- On heartbreak, livelihoods and art: Affect and crip desire in art making assemblages
- Revisioning Fitness through a relational community of practice: Conditions of possibility for access intimacies and body-becoming pedagogies through art making
- Resisting normality with cultural accessibility and slow technology
- In the wake of canada’s violent eugenic legacies: An urgency to ReVision Fitness
- The Game of Queer Family Life: Exploring 2SLGBTQI+ parents’ experiences of cisheteronormativity, racism, and colonialism through digital storytelling in Ontario, Canada
- The politics of vulnerable masculinity in couple therapy
- Stitching language: Sounding voice in the art practice of Vanessa Dion Fletcher
- Gendered patterns of interaction: A Foucauldian discourse analysis of couple therapy
- New sexism in couple therapy: A discourse analysis
- The primacy of discourse in the study of gender in family therapy
- Feeling ‘Pretty Porky & Pissed Off’: A photo essay on fatness, affect, art, and archives
- The intro course: A pedagogical toolkit
- Difference within and without: Health care providers’ engagement with disability arts
- Developing a choice-based digital fiction for body image bibliotherapy
- Pedagogical possibilities for unruly bodies
- Project Re•Vision: Disability at the edges of representation
- Relaxed Performance: An ethnography of pedagogy in praxis
- Rethinking fat: From bio- to body-becoming pedagogies
- Re/turning the Gaze: Unsettling settler logics through multimedia storytelling
- Slow story-making in urgent times
- The spectacle of the child woman: Troubling girls and the science of early puberty
- Storymaking as methodology: Disrupting dominant stories through multimedia storytelling
- What a body can do: Rethinking body functionality through a feminist materialist disability lens
- A critical review of postfeminist sensibility
- Failure to launch: One-person-one-fare airline policy and the drawbacks to the disabled-by-obesity legal argument
- Fatness and failing citizenship
- Imagining the other? Ethical challenges of researching and writing women’s embodied lives
- Mapping the circulation of fat hatred
- Making spaces: Multimedia storytelling as reflexive, creative praxis
- Through thick and thin: Storying queer women’s experiences of taking up and resisting idealized body images and expected body management practices
- Mobilizing interference as methodology and metaphor in disability arts inquiry
- Reflexive sketches during the Cripping the Arts symposium (dispatch)
- Multimedia storytelling methodology: Notes on access and inclusion in neoliberal times
- Denials of responsibility in couple therapy
- Becoming scholars in an interdisciplinary, feminist learning context
- Storytelling methods on the move
- Becoming “the fat girl”: Acquisition of an unfit identity
- Bodies at the intersections: Refiguring intersectionality through queer women’s complex embodiments
- Creating community across disability and difference
- Decolonizing disability through activist art
- Difference-attuned witnessing: Risks and potentialities of arts-based research
- Doing justice to intersectionality in research
- Letting bodies be bodies: Exploring Relaxed Performance in the Canadian performance landscape
- Envisioning new meanings of difference
- Normal eating is counter-cultural: Embodied experiences of eating disorder recovery
- Gendering bodily difference: An introduction to contemporary feminist thinking
- Recovering uncertainty: Exploring eating disorder recovery in context
- Identifying and working through settler ignorance
- Beyond “healthy eating” and “healthy weights”: Harassment and the health curriculum in middle schools
- Imagining disability futurities
- Reconceptualizing temporality in and through multi-media storytelling: Making time with through thick and thin
- Co-Emergence: An art-full dance of inquiry into artists’ experiences of making art
- Healthcare providers’ experiences as arts-based research participants: “I created my story about disability and difference, now what?”
- Beyond normative ethics: Ethics of disability arts research
- Elements of a counter-exhibition: Excavating and countering a Canadian history and legacy of eugenics
- Carrying stories: Digital storytelling and the complexities of intimacy, relationality, and home spaces
- Eating disorder prevention as biopedagogy
- The eating disorder recovery assemblage: Collectively generating possibilities for eating disorder recovery.
- Living dis/artfully with and in illness
- Embodying critical and corporeal methodology: Digital storytelling with young women in eating disorder recovery
- Re-storying autism: A body becoming disability studies in education approach
- Fat reproductive justice: Navigating the boundaries of reproductive health care
- “These waves …:” Writing new bodies for applied e-literature studies
- Hashtag recovery: #EatingDisorderRecovery on Instagram
- ACE Pathways Project: Therapeutic catharsis in digital storytelling
- Healthcare providers engagement with eating disorder recovery narratives: Opening to complexity and diversity
- A high-risk body for whom? On fat, risk, recognition and reclamation in restorying reproductive care through digital storytelling
- The emotional toll of postfeminist fatherhood
- Reading women’s and gender studies in Canada
- Rethinking Women’s Studies: Curriculum, pedagogy, and the introductory course
- Representing disability, D/deaf, and mad artists and art in journalism: Identifying ableist fault lines and promising crip practices of representation
- Staging accessibility: Collective stories of Relaxed Performance
- Toward TechnoAccess: A narrative review of disabled and aging experiences of using technology to access the arts
- Beyond measure? Disability art, affect and reimagining visitor experience
- Re•Storying Autism: An interview with Patty Douglas and Carla Rice
- Finding language: A word scavenger hunt (dispatch)
- Is #YogaForEveryone? The idealised flexible bodymind in Instagram yoga posts
- Cripping care: Care pedagogies and practices
- Interview with David Bobier (Dispatch)
- Gender performativity and postfeminist parenting in children’s television shows
- Blind visuality in Bruce Horak’s “Through a Tired Eye”
- Alterity in/of happiness: Reflecting on the radical possibilities of unruly bodies
- Communicating access, accessing communication. (Dispatch)
- Cripistemologies in the city: ‘Walking-together’ as sense-making
- Cultivating disability arts in Ontario
- Disability arts and re-worlding possibilities
- Introduction: Cripping the arts in Canada
- Reflections on “Cripping the Arts in Canada”
- Review of More Than Meets the Eye: What blindness brings to art by Georgina Kleege
- Revisioning aging: Indigenous, crip and queer renderings
- Keeping Relaxed Performance Vital: Affective Pedagogy in the Arts
- “This isn’t a high risk body”: Re-framing risk and reducing weight stigma in midwifery practice
Online Article
- Translation roundtable
- Universities must open their archives and share their oppressive pasts
- ReFrame film encourages “new possibilities” in dementia experiences.
- Phantom, stills & vibrations: An interview with Lara Kramer
- On the complexity of cripping the arts
- Writing new bodies in digital fiction
- Access after COVID-19: How disability culture can transform life and work
- Accessibility: Pushing the boundaries of theatre performance
- How a radical form of accessibility is pushing the boundaries of theatre performance
- Pushing the boundaries: A radical form of accessible theatre performance
- Building solidarity in celebrating difference
Report
- Relaxed Performance: An Illustrated Guide
- Report on the social impacts of disruptive technologies for people with episodic and persistent disabilities
- Relaxed Performance: Exploring university-based training across fashion, theatre, and choir
- Relaxed performance: Exploring accessibility in the Canadian Theatre Landscape
- Relaxed performance report highlights: Exploring accessibility in the Canadian theatre landscape
- Représentation décontractée: Une exploration de l’accessibilité dans le paysage théâtral canadien.
- Report on the Testimony on Eating Disorder Treatment and Prevention in Canada
- People experiencing disability with episodic limitations: The impact on their experience in the workplace
- Funciones relajadas resumen informativo: Exploración de la accesibilidad en el panorama teatral canadiense
Video
- Into the Light: An Interpretation of Two Research Papers
- Vanessa Dion Fletcher: Vertical Flame
- Night of Ideas: Being Alive
- Dispatches from Disabled Country: Book Launch with Catherine Frazee
- Crip Interiors: MIXER
- Arts, Health, and Social Justice Think Tank
- David Bobier: Talking to Myself and Knowledge Keeper
- Technologies of Justice
- Dolleen Tisawii’ashii Manning: Off the Cuff
- Guiding Principles
- Age and Creativity
- Aging/Disability Nexus
- admiring all we accomplish
- Holding Patterns: Roll-a-thon
- Cripping the Arts
- Lara Kramer: Phantom, Stills & Vibrations
- Vanessa Fletcher Dion: Finding Language
- Michel Dumont: Outliers
- Persimmon Blackbridge: Constructed Identities
- Relaxed Performance
- Disability Arts Oral History
- Thickening Fat: Dialogues on Intersectionality, Social Justice & Fatness
Projects
- Art in Translation: A Digital Catalogue Series
- Hidden
- Sagatay (New Beginnings)
- Body Farm
- Undeliverable
- Cripping the Arts Symposium 2019
- Lara Kramer: Phantom, stills & vibrations
- Element 7: Bookbizh / Breaks (in two), Aandishiwgwiigwaam / Where is your home?
- Element 6: Ichaag Gdi Yaawaa / Spirit
- Element 5: Pane Miinwaa / Always Again
- Element 4: Kookum’s Wigwaam / Grandma’s Cabin
- Element 3: Waabshkiiginan / White Sheets
- Element 2: Ndinwendaaganag / Relatives
- Element 1: Mooshkhagod / Be Flooded, Gakijwanan / Waterfalls, Wewebnaabiiwag / Fish with hook and live
- Bodies in Translation: Age and Creativity
- Michel Dumont: Outliers
- Cripistomologies of Disability Arts and Culture: Reflections on the Cripping the Arts Symposium
- Better Practices: A Meme-able Crip Public Education Campaign
- Deaf Interiors
- Intersectionality as a Methodology and Practice Panel
- Crip Times: A Podcast Series
- Translation Roundtable
- Disability and Livelihoods
- Secret Feminist Agenda
- 2020 Curator In Residence
- Vital Practices in the Arts
- Relaxed Performance: Exploring Accessibility in the Canadian Theatre Landscape
- The Pretty Porky and Pissed Off Archive
- kNow Access: A Digital Collage
- Disability & Fashion
- Accessing the Arts
- Into the Light: Eugenics and Education in Southern Ontario
- Night of Ideas: Being Alive
- Ancestral Mindscapes
- Persimmon Blackbridge: Constructed Identities
- Fault Lines
- Jeff Thomas on the Disability Visibility Podcast
- Aging Vitalities
- Blindness Gain and the Art of Non-Visual Reading with Hannah Thompson
- Dreams, Visions, Hallucinations: Disability and Other Ways of Seeing with Mona Stonefish and Dolleen Tisawii’ashii Manning
- Bruce Horak: Through a Tired Eye
- Bridging Wikipedia and Academia
- Holding Patterns: Roll-a-Thon
- Brilliant Imperfection: Grappling with Cure
- Hear, Feel, See, What!
- Off the Cuff: Mnidoo Infinity Squeezed through Finite Modulations
- Interview with David Bobier
- Thickening Fat: Dialogues on Intersectionality, Social Justice & Fatness
- Technologies of Justice
- Art As Activism/Activism as Art: A Conversation
- Progress is a Spiral Upward
- Crip Interiors: MIXER
- admiring all we accomplish
- The Second Cycle: Deaf, Disability, Mad Arts and Inclusion
- Outside The Lines
- Create/Change: AZ Institute
- Design Fiction: Thinking With Our Chemical Stories
- The Aging/Disability Nexus Project
- ArtsEverywhere Festival
