Videos
Rethinking Crip Ecologies: A Disability and MAD Artists Panel
On August 23rd, 2023, artists Pree Rehal, Max Ferguson, Carmen Pappalia, and Ezra Benus took part in a virtual panel as part of our ongoing work-integrated learning collaboration with Art Windsor-Essex (external link, opens in new window) . This panel responded to the BioCurious (external link, opens in new window) exhibit and explored the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic and climate change on our world and existence. TMU students organized this event as part of DST 614: Community, Access and Technology (opens in new window) , a work-integrated learning course offered through the School of Disability Studies. This course and event were supported by CEWIL Canada (external link, opens in new window) .
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(Not) Writing Access: Crip Mad Poetics
On April 26th, 2023, the School of Disability Studies' Rob Colgate, Fullbright Scholar, and Drew McEwan, Tanis Doe Post-Doctoral Fellow, joined Max Ferguson in conversation about their disability and mad poetic practice. Rob and Drew shared some of their poetry and, with Max, discussed how their crip (and) mad poetics can be made from disabled and mad states of being and be led by access aesthetics that change the ways we engage with poetry. They also discussed how disability, madness, and medicalization can lead to not writing and returning to writing.
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Dispatches from Disabled Country - Book Launch with Catherine Frazee
On May 29th, 2023, the Disability Publics Lab hosted a hybrid book launch of “Dispatches from Disabled Country'' (external link, opens in new window) with Catherine Frazee, Professor Emeritus of the School of Disability Studies (opens in new window) . The event was organized by Margot Challborn, Ethel Louise Armstrong Post-Doctoral Fellow (opens in new window) . It was sponsored by Bodies in Translation: Activist Art, Technology, and Access to Life (external link, opens in new window) . Video by Matthew Lui
Rethinking Connections Between Bodyminds and Art: A disability and mad artists panel
On December 8th, 2022, artists Jack Hawk, Jules Koostachin, and Dev Ramsawakh joined in conversation to discuss their disability and mad art practices, critical access practices, and audience engagement. This conversation was inspired by and responds to Grey Matter: Your Brain on Art (external link) , an Art Windsor-Essex exhibition curated by Dr. Lori Buchanan and Julie Rae Tucker. This event was organized by TMU students from DST 503: Disability Arts and Cultural Production, a workplace-integrated learning course, taught by Dr. Eliza Chandler and supported by CEWIL Canada (external link, opens in new window) .
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