Projects

I mobilize knowledge and research at the intersection of disability, criminalization, and radical care

  • briarpatch The Disability Justice Issue, fiercely independent.

    Briarpatch Disability Justice Issue

    The Briarpatch special 56-page Disability Justice issue features writing and art from disability justice activists across Canada. Inside, you’ll find an article about drug use and the criminalization of disabled life, an interview about war and debility, a roundtable on long COVID, food reviews from inside institutions, a discussion about disabled sex, reflections on the…

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    Invisible Institutions

    Invisible Institutions is a three part project on contemporary institutions for people labelled with intellectual and developmental disabilities for Inclusion Canada and People First of Canada’s Joint Taskforce on Deinstitutionalization. Through this project I developed policy briefs, a national report and a 7-part podcast miniseries.

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  • Towards Just Care

    Towards Just Care is a SSHRC-funded community-engaged research project focused on finding socially just alternatives to residential long-term care.

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  • Image description: Poster is yellow with light blue and dark blue texts and illustrations, following the colour scheme of the DJNO logo. Top left of the poster lists dates of events in the series: May 27th 2021 Cops out of Care, June 30th 2021 Abolish the Psych Ward, July 29th Abolish Long Term Care, August 26 Building Cop Free Futures. Top right of the poster has a giant pair of handcuffs. The middle of the poster has an illustration of five people in community together. Two are in a wheelchair. One is standing wearing a hijab and kissing one of the people in a wheelchair on the forehead, while another person sitting down with a knee brace feeds this person with a spoon. There is one person standing, holding a pot of food. The bottom of the image has psych ward socks that are on fire, and a health card. The right of the poster on the bottom has the DJNO logo and the logo of the Crime and Punishment Education Project (CPEP).

    Cops Out of Care Work

    A workshop series that brought together abolitionists, doctors, community organizers, artists and researchers to unpack the use of police, policing, prisons and cages in our current “care systems”. We draw on the tools of disability justice to imagine futures where disabled people can flourish together.

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    Tracking (In)justice

    The Tracking Injustice Project is a research project tracking the use of deadly police force and deaths in custody in Canada. As an advisor for the project, I support project development, language, and the approach.

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    Planning For Abolition

    Planning for Abolition is a research project asking how urban and regional planning can support the abolition of policing, prisons and other carceral systems, funded by SSHRC and hosted at Carleton University. Invisible Institutions was part of the project development, and is featured as an abolitionist project.

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