Coming soon from the University of Toronto Press
How do we Access Dissent?
Toward Dissent examines how access to resources, networks, and information shapes the ways marginalized communities organize sociopolitical struggles across local, regional, and global contexts.
Research and Community Engagement
Community-Led, Community-Informed
I am part of the blind community and my research focuses on the ways blindness and low-vision, and disability more broadly, shapes the knowledge we produce, the experiences we have and the data we accumulate and analyze.
Our cultural identities shape the work the we do and "who we are" needs to take center stage in the production of minority, de colonial knowledge.
I had the unique opportunity to work with Lord Cultural Resources in the development of the Royal Ontario Museum's "Connection Stations". These are multi modal exhibits that work to put our lived experiences first. In them, inclusive design brings people together and encourages not only the sharing of knowledge and lived experience, but the breaking down of normative frameworks of engaging with the past and understanding the present. They encourage us to put our identities first and to make these an entry point to social engagement and critical inquiry--and this is important.
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Research
Forefront of Research
I am a blind scholar, Associate Professor at the University of Missouri–Kansas City, and a disability activist whose work bridges Cultural Studies and workforce skills development. My research advances Disability as Research Method—co-designing questions, data practices, and dissemination with disabled communities to move knowledge into action.
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