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Re•Vision Newsletter Winter 2024
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A Letter From Our Directors
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Greetings!
We are excited to connect with you all as we start the new year.
This newsletter addition is all about celebrating the beauty, creativity, and critical insights of our incredible network of artists, activists, and scholars who are hard at work dreaming us into a radically different world. We are thrilled in particular to focus on the work of our amazing team of Postdoctoral researchers: Allison Taylor, Elizabeth Straus, Jami McFarland, Megan Johnson, and Jade Da Costa with projects that use a range of arts-based methods to explore weight discrimination, the gender-sexuality-autism nexus, disability arts ecologies, 2SLGBT Older Adults and access, and food justice in the era of COVID-19. Read on below for more information on these important new projects.
We are also excited, as always, to update you on our projects, activities, publications, and recent storytelling workshops.
Please take a look and let us know what you think! We so appreciate your care and engagement with our collective work.
With love,
Carla and Ingrid
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Digital Storytelling Workshop for Research and Advocacy
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Online or in-person, February 13–27, 2024
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Image Description: A recruitment poster in the style of a retro “Choose Your Own Adventure” book cover. The text reads “Re•Vision Storymaking. You pick the path in this hybrid learning experience. Digital Storytelling Workshop.” The poster features several drawings: people working together on a computer, a person speaking into a directional microphone, a person riding a unicorn, and a laptop computer with a video editing program open on the screen. Schedule details are superimposed on the images.
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This workshop is for anyone interested in learning more about digital storytelling as a research method, powerful communication tool, and strategy for social change. This three-week “choose your own adventure” experience will include online and in-person options. It will provide an overview of digital storytelling as a method for a range of applications and hands-on experience to produce your own short film.
Online and in-person, you will learn about sound design, visual representation, and advanced editing skills. No prior experience needed. All equipment for in-person participation will be provided. Online-only participants will need access to a computer equipped with Google Chrome.
FOR MORE INFORMATION AND TO REGISTER
Workshop Schedule:
February 13th 6:30–8:30 p.m. EST – ONLINE
February 21st 9:00 a.m.–4:00 p.m. IN PERSON OR 6:30–8:30 p.m. EST ONLINE
February 22nd 9:00 a.m.–4:00 p.m. IN PERSON OR 6:30–8:30 p.m. EST ONLINE
February 27th 6:30–8:30 p.m. EST ONLINE
Please contact Ingrid Mündel at imundel@uoguelph.ca if you have additional questions.
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Celebrating Mona Stonefish’s Honorary Doctorate
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Image Description: Dr. Mona Stonefish (centre) is shown wearing Nishnaabe regalia over a red convocation robe. She stands outdoors on the University of Guelph campus with Chancellor Mary Anne Chambers, President Charlotte Yates, Chief Chris Plain of the Aamjiwnaang First Nation, and Eagle Staff carrier Walker Stonefish.
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The Re•Vision Centre and Bodies in Translation would like to congratulate Dr. Mona Stonefish, who was awarded the degree of Doctor of Laws (honoris causa) by the University of Guelph Friday, June 16th, 2023.
A lifelong grassroots activist, leader and advocate, Dr. Stonefish (Bear Clan, Potawatomi, Bkejwanong, Three Fires Confederacy) is a Traditional Wisdom Keeper and a Doctor of Traditional Medicine. She is a leader in Nishnaabe language, culture and tradition, and has been recognized for her work in the ongoing fight against genocide. The impacts of her efforts to promote social justice and the decolonization of education, health, disability studies, and the arts have been felt in communities across Turtle Island and around the world.
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Sizing Up Accessibility: An Arts-based Exploration of Weight Discrimination as a Barrier to Disabled People's Public Participation in Ontario
SSHRC Insight Development Grant
Project Lead: Allison Taylor
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Accessibility is often assumed to be a matter of “one size fits all,” and resources, services, spaces, and supports are typically created to accommodate normatively sized bodies, leaving the 36% of disabled people who are fat without access to essential tools for living and wellbeing. This project surfaces the lived experiences of fat disabled Ontarians to facilitate the development of policy that substantively achieves the aims of Ontario’s 2025 Accessibility Action Plan and improves the lives of fat disabled Ontarians.
Our goals are to understand how body size and weight discrimination interact with disability and ableism to affect diversely-situated fat disabled people’s access to public resources, services, spaces, and supports; and to identify and shift oppressive perspectives and practices regarding disability and fatness in scholarship, policy, and culture and advocate for improved access to public participation for fat disabled people through knowledge mobilization methods including publications, digital stories, and creative educational resources.
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Beyond the Normative Knot: Life and Praxis at the Gender-Sexuality-Autism Nexus
SSHRC Insight Development Grant
Project Lead: Elizabeth Straus
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Increasing empirical evidence shows greater diversity in gender identities and sexual orientations in autistic communities compared to nonautistic populations. It is estimated that in the general population, between 2% and 2.3% of people are autistic, whereas a recent survey with LGBTQ+ youth indicated that 5% identified as autistic and 35% suspected they were autistic. Biomedical narratives about the connection between sex/gender and autism are widespread, but while autistic self advocate and activist communities have addressed the entanglements of gender, sexuality, and autism, critiquing normative gender systems, these counternarratives have seen limited uptake in academic and professional dialogues where they have greater possibility to transform praxis.
In this project we will address this gap by investigating how autistic people do gender, sexuality and autism, and resist heteronormativity and neuronormativity. Using a multimedia storytelling-based research methodology, our aim is to shift understandings and practices through academic, community, and arts-based knowledge mobilization.
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Sustaining Disability Arts Ecologies in Canada
Mitacs Elevate Postdoctoral Fellowship
Project Lead: Megan Johnson
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Disability arts is a field of artistic practice and cultural production that is revolutionizing approaches to accessibility and inclusion and providing a critical intervention into Canada’s arts and culture sector. The field is an ecology made up of different participants, resources, processes, materials, and networks. There is an urgent need for disability arts organizations to enact sustainable working practices and administrative infrastructures that can respond to the unique needs and values of the field and support its growth.
This project will support the sustainability of two leading disability arts resources in Canada: Tangled Art + Disability—Canada’s first accessible and disability-led art gallery and a national leader in accessible curation—and the archival materials of Bodies in Translation: Activist Art, Technology, and Access to Life (BIT), assessing and recommending strategies to best support the sustainability of the disability arts ecology.
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Making Stories, Making Kin: 2SLGBT Older Adults and Access to Technology, Culture, and Life
Mitacs Elevate Postdoctoral Fellowship
Project Lead: Jami McFarland
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This project will advance path-breaking practices to foster accessibility for and inclusivity of older adults both in research broadly and in art and culture sectors by identifying the barriers and supports that impact aging, disabled, and 2SLGBT communities’ physical and digital engagement with art and technology; collaborating with marginalized aging community members to co-create diverse and transformative multimedia stories; and involving marginalized older adult communities in the development of accessibility and inclusivity standards to facilitate their physical and digital participation in culture and reduce their sense of social isolation.
Combining interviews, focus groups and multimedia stories, this research aims to develop insights about the in/accessibility of the arts as well as technologies used to access the arts and culture for marginalized older adults, and to thus promote more accessible and inclusive physical and digital environments where all bodies and minds can fully participate in the consumption and creation of culture.
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Beyond the Pandemic: A Grassroots Exploration of Food Justice in the Era of COVID-19
SSHRC Banting Postdoctoral Fellowship
Project Lead: Jade DaCosta
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This project mobilizes the frontline experiences of food providers during the COVID-19 pandemic to address the food crisis evident among racialized and Indigenous communities and promote food justice in a post-pandemic future. At the onset of the pandemic, Statistics Canada reported a 39 percent increase in food insecurity, with racialized and Indigenous households at the forefront of those impacted. Lockdown conditions placed added financial strain on precarious work sectors that have historically employed racially marginalized groups and thus accelerated the country’s ongoing history of racialized poverty. Moreover, localized instances of food insecurity increased at an alarmingly high rate, with regional food bank visits and food insecurity rates exponentially increased among racialized and Indigenous households.
We combine food justice scholarship and intersectional theory within a Connected Community Approach (CCA) to conduct an arts-based, grassroots qualitative research project through: 1) recruiting and interviewing racialized and Indigenous food provision users, food justice activists, and foodbank advocates; and 2) participating in multimedia storytelling with a subset of each sample to create digital storytelling videos on how to address racialized food insecurity moving forward.
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Accessing the Arts in Peterborough/ Nogojiwanong: Experiences of Access and Access Leadership
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In November, the Access Leadership group of the research project Accessing the Arts in Peterborough/Nogojiwanong (ATA) connected at Artspace in Peterborough/Nogojiwanong over delicious moose meat and vegetarian chili and bannock (Janice McCue, Turtle Crossing Catering), then attended the Public Energy Performing Arts presentation of ZAAGI’IDIWIN: OUR MOTHERING HEART by O.Dela Arts (Vancouver) at Nozhem Theatre at Trent University. The group will be attending a second presentation in 2024, Bubie’s Tapes (January 17–21) by Jon Hedderwick at TTOK.
The Access Leadership group is an enthusiastic, diverse, Indigenous and settler group of older, younger, and ability divergent (Fuellbeck, 2023) people. Our group will be providing the information that Peterborough/Nogojiwanong arts organizations need to enhance the accessibility of arts presentations for ability divergent people. The project is led by BIT Management Team member Nadine Changfoot, research assistant Jessica Scott (whose MA research focuses on accessibility in Peterborough/Nogojiwanong cultural life), and Aimée Anctil, in partnership with Anishinaabekwe e/Elder Alice Olsen Williams, project participants, and Peterborough/Nogojiwanong-based arts organizations Artspace, Public Energy Performing Arts, and TTOK.
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From InVisibility to Inclusion (i2i)
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As our grant draws to a conclusion, the i2i project has continued to deepen our partnership with the Ontario Occupational Health Nurses Association (OOHNA). On September 28th, Elisabeth Harrison and Lacey Croft co-presented a webinar session on Navigating Episodic Disabilities at Work: The Role of the Occupational Health Nurse for OOHNA’s continuing education program, promoting a better understanding of episodic disabilities among these key players in workplace accommodations processes. We have also been busy with writing, publishing Episodic disability in the neoliberal university: Stories from the Canadian context, and our forthcoming article, Toward access justice in the academy: Centring episodic disability to revision research methodologies (in press at the International Journal of Qualitative Methods).
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Coming Soon!
The Worlding Difference Knowledge Platform
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We are moving toward the launch of Bodies in Translation’s Worlding Difference Knowledge Platform, which showcases the collaborative work of disabled, D/deaf, Mad, aging, e/Elder, and fat artists and scholars whose work challenges dominant stereotypes by highlighting their creativity, agency, connections to community, and vitality.
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Image description: Screen capture of the Worlding Difference Knowledge Platform homepage. The project logo and title are shown in a text box with an aqua background, with a tagline reading, “Imagine new accessible worlds and ways of being together on a platform built for difference.” To the right, a transparent grey menu lists options for “access,” “search,” “member,” and “glossary.” In the background, an original illustration by Sonny Bean shows a salmon pink underground world with colourful plants, mushrooms, insects, jewels, a mole, and a bunny inside a burrow.
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Worlding Difference is a series of book length multimedia learning modules and other interactive content currently in development. The Platform showcases the collaborative work of disabled, D/deaf, Mad, aging, e/Elder, and fat artists and scholars whose work challenges dominant stereotypes by highlighting their creativity, agency, connections to community, and vitality.
At launch, Worlding Difference will feature five learning modules: Disability Arts and Crip Cultural Practices, Aging, Arts, Accessibility, Fat Activism, Into the Light, and ReVision Storymaking. Forthcoming modules include Neurodiversity; Mad Studies and Critical Psychology, Technoaccess; and Practicing the Social.
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Here is a sneak peak of from our Fat Activism Module:
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Image description: “All Bodies Deserve to Live Joyfully” by Allison Tunis. Loopy, stylized purple line drawings of seven fat people sitting, standing and embracing, in front of a Progress Pride Flag-inspired rainbow watercolour backdrop.
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In fat studies, fat is both an adjective and a political identity. Fat is used as an adjective to describe a bodily characteristic or experience. Fat is not a number on a scale, but rather exists in context and experience, such as a larger-bodied person being called “fat” as an insult or not fitting into an airplane seat. Relatedly, fat is a political identity in that fat people are reclaiming the word fat—taking it back from those who have used “fat” as a negative or demeaning word and reinvesting it with positive, neutral, or less oppressive meanings. We understand fat as descriptive, reclaimed, and politicized.
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Image description: A digital collage features (left to right) a ceramic and glass mosaic by Wy Joung Kou and an installation of hand-made vessels by Anna Camilleri. The mosaic features an orange hand opening to release small, multicoloured, marble sized round objects, against a backdrop of a fragmented white tea saucer surrounded by navy blue fragments. Many round white-grey vessels, installed on a sandy beach, have smooth interiors, textured exteriors and uneven edges. The vessels in the foreground are in sharp focus, with seemingly endless vessels extending out into the blurry distance.
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HELD – A Multi-Sensory Exhibition
Anna Camilleri and Wy Joung Kou, in partnership with ReDefine Arts
November 17, 2023 - January 26, 2024
HELD is a multi-sensory exhibition by Anna Camilleri and Wy Joung Kou, composed of multiple works within a shared ecosystem including: ceramic and glass mosaic, installation, pebble mosaic sculpture, video, audio, and interaction. Reimagining the gallery as a co-created and invitational space, HELD asks: What futures await our queer, disabled bodies? What sustainable futures can we co-create together?
HELD is a 20-piece pebble mosaic series designed and co-created by the artists. A substantial part of Camilleri and Kou’s artistic histories is expressed through pebble mosaic public artworks: monuments built to commemorate, make meaning, and embody commitments to co-creating futures that hold worlds of possibility for us individually and collectively. The pebble mosaic elements in HELD, in concert with all the exhibition elements, prompt the following call: What visions for disability futures do you hold close or carry forward?
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Digital Storytelling Workshops
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Stories for Strengthening Access
The stories in the SFSA project share the unfiltered experiences of survivors as they navigated various systems to try to meet their crucial needs for housing, safety, financial security, and family health while fleeing violence during the height of the COVID-19 pandemic. These survivors worked with Re•Vision to illustrate the barriers people who identify as women and their children face trying to escape violence. The stories center gender-based violence (GBV) survivors, and the challenges they experience while trying to access crucial supports. The team involved in this project hope to create awareness about forms of gender-based violence so that survivors are more supported in their communities.
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Canadian Feminist Disability Coalition (CFDC)
The Canadian Feminist Disability Coalition (CFDC) is a 30-month project established by the Live Work Well Research Centre at the University of Guelph in partnership with the DisAbled Women’s Network of Canada. The CFDC aims to build the leadership and advocacy skills of diverse women and girls with disabilities to become agents of change for their rights in Canada. In 2023, CFDC members took part in two digital storytelling workshops with Re•Vision.
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Concussion: (Re)thinking Recovery
(Re)thinking Recovery engages young people with lived experience of concussion in the co-production of knowledge of concussion recovery. Using interviews and multimedia storytelling methods, and framed by philosopher Michel Foucault’s theorizations of knowledge, power, and discourse, this study examines: 1) how recovery is conceptualized by young people with lived experience of concussion, 2) how young people negotiate and/or resist conventional, biomedically-based ways of thinking about recovery (e.g., recovery as cure), and 3) how young people’s understandings of concussion are shaped by and within the varied contexts of their lives (e.g., school, sport, family, media/social media, healthcare).
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Indigenous-Led Midwifery Workshop
The Indigenous midwifery digital storytelling workshop is part of a larger CIHR funded research project exploring the economic cost and outcome of birth evacuation, compared to Indigenous midwifery in community. The digital storytelling workshop, provided the opportunity for participants – Indigenous Midwives and Indigenous midwifery clients, to explore and share the importance of Indigenous midwifery. Indigenous midwife participants shared their personal reflections on the work of Indigenous midwifery. Indigenous midwifery clients shared their stories of their experience in Indigenous midwifery care, birth stories, and the role of Indigenous midwives in their families and communities.
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Wshkiigmong Dibaajmownan
Wshkiigmong Dibaajmownan has been selected to screen at the ReFrame Film Festival in 2024. The festival will be held in person from January 25th to 28th and streaming across Canada from January 29th to February 3rd.
Cameron Bailey, CEO of the Toronto International Film Festival gave a talk at Trent University in November on cultivating cultural hubs to build community for filmmakers and audience. He also discussed the importance of Black leadership. BIT team member Nadine Changfoot had the opportunity to discuss the Wshkiigmong Dibaajmownan/Curve Lake Storytelling shorts directed by Curve Lake First Nation members with Bailey, and noted his enthusiastic response.
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Image description: Ana Lopes, Board Member of TIFF and Emeritus Board Member of Trent University, Cameron Bailey, TIFF CEO, and Nadine Changfoot, Trent University Professor and BIT team member, stand in front of a projection screen in a lecture theatre at Trent University.
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Image Description: The HEARTLab logo, with “Heart” written in red in a handwriting-style font, and “LAB” in white letters against a shiny, red heart.
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Healthcare experiences of parents/caregivers and children and youth who are racialized or a Black, Indigenous, and/or Person of Colour (BIPOC) with a disability/ies
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HEARTLab at Toronto Metropolitan University is looking for BIPOC children/youth (age 12-–24) and parents to participate in a study on how racialized families with disabilities navigate the Canadian healthcare system. Participants will take part in a 30-90 minute interview with researchers (in-person or on Zoom), and an at-home art activity (2-4 hours). Each participant will receive a $50 e-gift card. Transit and parking costs will be provided. To ask questions or volunteer, please contact Alyssa Neville, Research Coordinator, School of Early Childhood Studies (alyssa.neville@torontomu.ca), or Dr. Fiona Moola, Principal Investigator, School of Early Childhood Studies (fiona.moola@torontomu.ca).
This research study has been reviewed and approved by the Toronto Metropolitan Research Ethics Board (REB 2022-270). If you have questions/concerns, contact the REB at 416-979-5042 or rebchair@torontomu.ca. This study is funded by the Canadian Institutes of Health Research.
Call For Participants: Healthcare workers or health policy makers who have experience working with or on health policy topics related to parents/caregivers and children/youth who are racialized or Black, Indigenous, and/or People of Colour (BIPOC) with a disability/ies
HEARTLab at Toronto Metropolitan University is looking for designated healthcare professionals working in Canada who have experience working with racialized or BIPOC children/youth with disabilities in a pediatric healthcare setting OR health policy makers working in Canada who have experience working in pediatric health policy within the Canadian healthcare system and knowledge on racialized children/youth with disabilities to participate in a study on how racialized youth and families with disabilities navigate the Canadian healthcare system. Participants will take part in a 30-90 minute interview with researchers (in-person or on Zoom). Each participant will receive a $50 e-gift card. Transit and parking costs will be provided. To ask questions or volunteer, please contact Alyssa Neville, Research Coordinator, School of Early Childhood Studies (alyssa.neville@torontomu.ca), or Dr. Fiona Moola, Principal Investigator, School of Early Childhood Studies (fiona.moola@torontomu.ca).
This research study has been reviewed and approved by the Toronto Metropolitan Research Ethics Board (REB 2022-270). If you have questions/concerns, contact the REB at 416-979-5042 or rebchair@torontomu.ca. This study is funded by the Canadian Institutes of Health Research.
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Calls for Proposals and Papers
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IndigenALTER, European Society for Disability Research 12th Conference: Disability Research for the Real World
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Abstracts due January 14th, 2024
Held at the Catholic University of Leuven, Belgium, July 4th and 5th, 2024. La 12ème conférence Alter met l’accent sur les défis et les opportunités des mondes contemporains en Europe et dans le monde. Elle invite à faire du trouble et des incertitudes que génèrent les catastrophes environnementales et sanitaires, les violences et les migrations, d’une part, les crises des sociétés et de la science, d’autre part, une source d’inspiration en faveur d’une recherche sur le handicap plus en phase avec les défis économiques et écologiques auxquels nous faisons face. Elle invite également à une réflexivité collective qui, partant des connaissances et savoir-faire acquis dans le domaine, les confronte au présent pour construire des futurs durables. The call for papers can be accessed here: ALTER Conference
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Canadian Sociological Association Annual Conference: Challenging Hate: Sustaining Shared Futures
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Abstracts due January 29th, 2024
Virtual sessions scheduled from Monday, June 3 through Friday, June 7, 2024. In-person sessions scheduled from Monday, June 17th through Friday, June 21st, 2024 as part of the Federation of Humanities and Social Sciences Congress in partnership with McGill University. The call for abstracts can be accessed here: Canadian Sociological Association Annual Conference
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Critical Methodologies in Dementia Studies
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Abstracts due January 31, 2024.
Expressions of Interest are welcome for this collection co-edited by Andrea Capstick (University of Bradford, UK), Nadine Changfoot (Trent, TCAS), and Jami McFarland (University of Guelph). As part of the ground-breaking Routledge series in Critical Dementia Studies, we are now commissioning chapters on any aspect of critical methodology in dementia studies. Abstracts should be no more than 200-350 words and demonstrate how your proposed chapter critically wrestles with an aspect of methodology as it relates to dementia research. The call for expressions of interest can be accessed here: EoI Critical Methodologies in Dementia Studies
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The Inaugural Disability Communications and Media Preconference 2024: Emerging or Emerged?
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Abstracts due February 9th, 2024.
We situate this preconference with efforts of disability scholars to engage with communication studies as a discipline. We invite submissions that consider the question of whether disability communications and media research is an emergent or emerged field and/or work that highlight cutting edge research (loosely defined) in the area of disability communication/media and research. The call for abstracts can be accessed here: The Inaugural Disability Communications and Media Preconference
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Journal of Femininities: On the Importance of Femininities
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Abstracts due February 16, 2024.
In this special issue, we hope to challenge existing biases toward femininities research by highlighting its importance across various scholarly domains.
This special issue of the Journal of Femininities will bolster the field of femininities with articles that: 1) Identify the importance of examining femininity in specific scholarly contexts and disciplines. 2) Explore or document biases and barriers to researching femininity. This issue seeks to answer the questions of “Why do we need the Journal of Femininities?” and “Of what relevance is Femininities to various scholarly domains?” Contact fem@uwaterloo.ca for the full call for abstracts. Journal information can be accessed here: Journal of Femininities
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Morgan Sea - Re•Vision Social Media Consultant
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Image description: A selfie of Morgan Sea. She has green hair and purple glasses and is wearing a black and white patterned top and a black cardigan.
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Meet Morgan Sea, professional artist, cartoonist, educator, and the reason why the Re•Vision and BIT social media accounts are constantly posting such excellent content!
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Image description: Cartoon profiles of ReVision staff members Marnie Eves and Elisabeth Harrison.
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Morgan was born in the Canadian prairies. She makes comics, performance art and various crafty things. Her work is often focused on mental health, trans feminism, super heroics, mythology and the oppressive forces of capitalism. She has an MFA from OCAD University and a BFA from Concordia. She lives in Toronto with her loving partner Tali and two cats. For info about her zines, radio work and other content check out her website, MorganSea.com
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Jade Da Costa - Banting Postdoctoral Fellow
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Image description: Jade Da Costa is shown standing in a store, in front of shelves of merchandise. They are wearing a light coloured shirt and light blue pleated jeans and they are wearing blue eye shadow and face paint.
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Jade Crimson Rose Da Costa (they/them/she) is a gender nonbinary queer woman of colour scholar, community organizer, creative writer, and educator across Central Southern Ontario. They are a Banting Postdoctoral Fellow at the University of Guelph with a PhD in Sociology from York University. Jade is also the cofounder of The People’s Pantry, curator of Erotic Pedagogy, and founder and EIC of New Sociology: Journal of Critical Praxis. Her research, teaching, organizing, and art converge on topics of race, racialization, and anti-racism, decolonialization, gender and sexuality, critical pedagogy, critical health studies, and social justice. To learn more, visit their website at jadecrimson.com.
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Kate Ellis - Research Assistant, Beyond the Normative Knot: Life and Praxis at the Gender-Sexuality-Autism Nexus
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Image Description: A black and white photo of Kate Ellis. They have short hair and are wearing a patterned collared shirt under a graduation gown. They have a smile on their face.
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Kate Ellis (they/them) is a queer, autistic PhD student in Communication at Carleton University. Their research interests are broadly in social media use for autistic community-building, questioning gendered presentations or ‘phenotypes’ of autism, and the intersections between transphobia and anti-autistic ableism. They have a background in Critical Disability Studies and Gender & Sexuality Studies and are committed to doing research that centres community perspectives. At Re-Vision, they are working on the project “Beyond the Normative Knot: Life and Praxis at the Gender-Sexuality-Autism Nexus,” a qualitative and arts-based study about autistic people’s related to gender, sexuality, and autism.
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Social Sciences Special Issue: Rethinking Artful Politics: Bodies of Difference Remaking Body Worlds, 12 (2023).
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Image Description: The Rethinking Artful Politics logo is shown in white against a black background. The logo features abstract concentric rings in an ear shape evoking movement and sensing in expansive ways. Next to it, a monochrome white version of the the Bodies in Translation logo of abstract, sketched circles, is also shown.
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Social Sciences Special Issue 12, Rethinking Artful Politics: Bodies of Difference Remaking Body Worlds (open access) edited by Nadine Changfoot, Eliza Chandler and Carla Rice includes 11 articles that rethink politics with and through art to advance worlds of decolonization, Indigenous Knowledge, revisioning fitness, crip fashion hacking, relational and creative writing/epistemology, Black Deaf history and identity, rural deaf and disabled artistry, photovoice and community connection, creativity and dementia, fat lives, eating distress/disorder “recovery,” and radical care. You will recognize many authors from the Bodies in Translation partnership!
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How Does Disability Performance Travel?: Access, Art, and Internationalization
Edited by Christiane Czymoch, Kate Maguire-Rosier, and Yvonne Schmidt.
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How Does Disability Performance Travel?: Access, Art, and Internationalization investigates the myriad ways in which disability performance travels in a globalized world. The book features chapters by two Re•Vision team members: “Travel, Mobility, and Kinetic Hierarchies in Disability Performance” by Megan Johnson, Re•Vision Centre Postdoctoral Fellow, and “Building Communities Online: #DisabilityTwitter and Digital Mobility” by Jessica Watkin.
Image Description: The cover page of How Does Disability Performance Travel? Featuring the title against a tiled, multicoloured background.
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Fat Studies in Canada: (Re)Mapping the Field
Edited by Allison Taylor, Kelsey Ioannoni, Ramanpreet Annie Bahra, Calla Evans, Amanda Scriver and May Friedman.
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Image Description: The cover page of Fat Studies in Canada, featuring the title in white against a vibrant purple background. A drawing of abstracted fat bodies in pink, yellow and beige in repose against/as part of a sandy shore is featured.
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, this edited collection captures multi-dimensional experiences of being fat in Canada.
Together, the chapters explore the subject of fat oppression as it acts upon individuals and collectives, unpacking how fat bodies at various intersections of gender, sexuality, racialization, disability, neurodivergence, and other axes of embodiment have been understood, both historically and within contemporary Canada.
Many of the editors and contributors to the book are Re•Vision and Bodies in Translation team members, affiliates, and collaborators.
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Dispatches from Disabled Country
By Catherine Frazee, edited by Christine Kelly and Michael Orsini.
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Image Description: The cover of Dispatches from Disabled Country by Catherine Frazee, featuring a photograph of Catherine looking out over a body of water from the top of a hill where she is sitting in her power wheelchair next to an evergreen tree.
Shifting the centre for contemporary policy and practice to more fairly reflect the aspirations and entitlements of diverse disabled populations is no small feat. It requires all of us, first and foremost, to unshackle from dominant narratives that equate disability with incapacity, tragedy, and loss. These selected writings kickstart that process by revealing what has been unfolding for decades just under the radar of ableist society. From ground zero in Disabled Country, Frazee introduces us to “a poetics of identity, an ethos of empathy, and a sanctuary from philosophies of greed and utility.”
Bodies in Translation was proud to sponsor the official launch of Dispatches from Disabled Country, held online and in person at Toronto Metropolitan University on May 29th, 2023. In addition to a reading by Dr. Frazee, Dr. Eliza Chandler, Dr. Kathryn Church, Dr. Melanie Panitch, and many other community members shared remarks.
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Bailey, K. A., Bessey, M., Rice, C., & Gillett, J. (accepted). #AccessibleYoga for whom? The non-performativity of accessibility and inclusion on Instagram. Leisure/loisir.
Bailey, K. A., Bessey, M., Rice, C., Kelly, E., McHugh, T., Punjani, S., Quest, S., Dube, B., Tshuma, P., Besse, K., & Sookpaiboon, S. (accepted). In the wake of Canada's violent eugenic legacies: An urgency to ReVision Fitness. Leisure/Loisir Journal.
Chandler, E., East, L., Rice, C., & El Kadi, R. (2023). Misfits in the world: Culture shifting through crip cultural practices. Revista Mundaú. 13(3), 26–46. doi.org/10.28998/rm.2023.13.14022
Chandler, E., Johnson, M., Jones, C., Harrison, E., and Rice, C. (accepted). Enacting reciprocity and solidarity: Critical access as methodology. Australian Feminist Studies Journal, special issue: Feminist Futures: Research Methodologies for New Times.
Chandler, E., Lee, S., East, L., & Johnson, M. (2023). Insiders/outsiders of Canadian disability arts. Epidemiology and Psychiatric Sciences 32, e47, 1–5. doi.org/10.1017/S2045796023000598
Collins, K., Jones, C. T., Rice, C., (2023). On heartbreak, livelihoods and art: Affect and crip desire in art making assemblages. Distinktion: Journal of Social Theory. 1–18. doi.org/10.1080/1600910X.2023.2250926
Croft, L., Harrison, E., Grant-Young, J., McGillivray, K., Sebring, J., & Rice, C., (accepted). Toward access justice in the academy: Centring episodic disability to revision research methodologies. International Journal of Qualitative Methods.
Nair, K., Ensslin, A., Rice, C. Riley, S., Wilks, C. Fowlie, H., Munro, L. & Perram, M. (2023). Contemporary critical bibliotherapy and its uses in creative, digital-born body image interventions. In B. Thomas, J. Round and A. Ensslin (Eds.), Routledge Companion to Literary Media. Routledge. doi.org/10.4324/9781003119739
Rinaldi., J., Rice., C., & Lind, E. (2023). Failure to launch: One-Person-One-Fare airline policy and the drawbacks to the fatness-as-disability legal argument. In von Liebenstein, S. (Ed.), Legislating fatness: Current debates in weight discrimination, policy, and law. Taylor & Francis. (Original work published 2022).
Smoliak, O., Dechamplain, B., Elliott, R. Rice. C., LeCouteur, A., Tseliou, E., & Davies,, A., (accepted). Partner empathy in couple therapy: A discovery phase task analysis. Couple and Family Psychology: Research and Practice. doi.org/10.1037/cfp0000244
Smoliak, O., LeCouteur, A., Tseliou, E., Rice, C., LaMarre, A., Davies, A., Al-Ali, K., Uguccioni, B., Stirling, L., Dechamplain, B., & Henshaw, S. (2023). The third shift: Addressing emotion work in couple therapy. Family Process. 62, 1006–1023. doi.org/10.1111/famp.12906
Smoliak, O., Tseliou, E., Rice, C., Rudder, D., Gaete, J., LaMarre, A., LeCouteur, A., Henshaw, S., & Davies, A. (accepted). Emotion regulation and economic power: Managing emotions in the era of neoliberalism. Contemporary Family Therapy.
Straus, E. J., Brown, H., Teachman, G., & Howard, F. (2023). Transforming normative, ableist, and biomedical orientations to living well and quality of life in nursing: Reimagining what a ventilated body can do. Nursing Inquiry. doi.org/10.1111/nin.12554
Barry, B., Nesbitt, P., De Villa, A., McMullin, K., & Dumitra, J. (2023). Re-making clothing, re-making worlds: On crip fashion hacking. Social Sciences, 12(9), 500. doi.org/10.3390/socsci12090500
Bessey, M., Bailey, K. A., Besse, K., Rice, C., Punjani, S., & McHugh, T.-L. F. (2023). Revisioning fitness through a relational community of practice: Conditions of possibility for access intimacies and body-becoming pedagogies through art making. Social Sciences, 12(10), 584. doi.org/10.3390/socsci12100584
McBee, R. L. (2023). “It really put a change on me”: Visualizing (dis)connections within a photovoice project in Peterborough/Nogojiwanong, Ontario. Social Sciences, 12(9), 488. doi.org/10.3390/socsci12090488
Alvarez-Hernandez, L. R., & Flint, M. (2023). Epistemological weaving: Writing and sense making in qualitative research with Gloria Anzaldúa. Social Sciences, 12(7), 408. doi.org/10.3390/socsci12070408
Rouse, J., Palmer, A., & Parsons, A. (2023). Reconstruct(ing) a hidden history: Black Deaf Canadian relat(ing) identity. Social Sciences, 12(5), 305. doi.org/10.3390/socsci12050305
Kosurko, A., & Stevanovic, M. (2023). Beyond utterances: Embodied creativity and compliance in dance and dementia. Social Sciences, 12(5), 304. doi.org/10.3390/socsci12050304
Taylor, A., Mitchell, A., & Rice, C. (2023). Performing fat liberation: Pretty Porky and Pissed Off’s affective politics and archive. Social Sciences, 12(5), 270. doi.org/10.3390/socsci12050270
LaMarre, A., Healy-Cullen, S., Tappin, J., & Burns, M. (2023). Honouring differences in recovery: Methodological explorations in creative eating disorder recovery research. Social Sciences, 12(4), 251. doi.org/10.3390/socsci12040251
Kelly, E., Rice, C., & Stonefish, M. (2023). Towards decolonial choreographies of co-resistance. Social Sciences, 12(4), 204. doi.org/10.3390/socsci12040204
Jones, C. T., Weber, J., Atwal, A., & Pridmore, H. (2023). Dinner table experience in the flyover provinces: A bricolage of rural Deaf and disabled artistry in Saskatchewan. Social Sciences, 12(3), 125. doi.org/10.3390/socsci12030125
Chazan, M. (2023). Crip time and radical care in/as artful politics. Social Sciences, 12(2), 99. doi.org/10.3390/socsci12020099
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