Building a Culture and Practice of Community Care on Campus
You are invited to our first Transformation Café event of the year, Practice of Community Care on Campus, on March 5th at 12:00 pm - 1:30 pm. Featuring disability justice scholar and care collective organizer, Dr. Loree Erickson, and collective care artist–researcher and TMU ComCult alum, L. Morris, this conversation and workshop will take up how we care for one another in university.
This session will animate Loree’s long-standing and revolutionary work with care collectives and L’s practices of collective care, mutual aid, and harm reduction. We will open with a conversation between Loree and L on collective care, mutual aid, and abolition. We will then have small group discussions and maker circles where participants will reflect on their own care practices and networks, consider tensions between state-supported care and community-led care, and imagine concrete ways to build and sustain care on campus. We will engage these topics through conversation and collage.
This on-campus lunchtime event is free and open to the public. Lunch and ASL interpretation will be provided. We ask that those coming in person wear a face mask when not eating. Surgical masks will be available.
When: Thursday, March 5th
Time: 12PM - 1:30 PM - Doors and lunch at 11:30 AM
Where: 288 Church Street, (DCC building), room 707/709
Access: ASL interpretation. This is a mask-mandatory event. Please wear a mask when not eating and we will have surgical masks available. Folks will be available to support collage making. For questions about access please email eliza.chandler@torontomu.ca
Registration: This event is free and open to the public. To register for in-person or online attendance, please visit:
Speakers
Dr. Loree Erickson’s (she/her) activist, research, and teaching interests include disability justice, abolition, porn studies, cultures of un/desirability, queercrip porn, and media. She currently teaches at U of T and OCAD. She’s an award-winning porn performer/maker. Along with other community organizing, she is a forerunner in theorizing and thriving through care collectives. She’s a white settler queer femmegimp, cat lady, lover of sun, social justice and sparkly things.
IG: femmegimp
IG: Loree_carecollective
L Morris [@ellemorris.art] is a Toronto based interdisciplinary artist, painter, performer, and teacher. Their collaborative research and art projects explore community, connection and embodiment using co-creation to imagine a future in which we can all thrive. They have supported the development of community publications such as Tender, a forthcoming zine on 2SLGBTQ+/Disabled community care in Toronto, and Tangled Art + Disability’s Access Anthology.
L has been an Artist in Residence at Casa Lethbridge, Gibraltar Point Centre for the Arts, and InterAccess, and has exhibited work at Casa, Gibraltar Point, Ukai, and Nuit Blanche. They have facilitated movement and creative workshops for the Lethbridge Public Research Interest Group, the Brampton Art Organization, and Bloom Festival.