Accessible Movements - Tools for Change workshop
Friday, March 27, 2015 – Friday, March 27th, 2015
What are the barriers to activism - to claiming an activist identity - to participating? Is it possible for everyone?
Our groups and movements are stronger when we recognize everyone has something to contribute; and, organize in ways that support each other with what we need to participate.
What is radical accessibility? What can radical accessibility look like in campus and community organizing? How accessible are social justice movements now? Using an intersectional accessibility analysis – this workshop will be a space to reflect on thoughts, ideas and actions on accessibility. Facilitated by Kayla Carter and geoff.
Date: Friday, March 27 2015 Time: 2-5pm
Location: George Brown College, 200 King St.E. Career Centre rm.B155 * This event occurs on Indigenous land.
REGISTRATION REQUIRED: http://bit.ly/CAC_T4C_1
Access: ASL-English Interpretation | care attendant | live captioning | reflection room available | large print copies of workshop package | Wheelchair Accessible
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Trainers:
Kayla Carter is a writer, a storyteller, a poet, a lover, a daughter, an artist, a sister and a dancer. She is a Toronto born artist who is of Jamacian, Cuban, Maroon and Taino ancestry and believes that her existence is not accidental nor is it coincidental. Kayla believes that art is healing, transformative and meditative process not only for those who are receiving it but also giving it. Her work focuses on regimes of trauma, healing, diaspora, affect, shame, institutions of and histories of violence, queer theory, blackness, transnational feminist thought and storytelling. Kayla is currently a Masters student in the Critical Disability Studies Department of York University.
geoff is a project coordinator for the Pieces to Pathways project. Pieces to Pathways is a peer-led initiative conducting a needs assessment of substance use among LGBTTQQ2SIA youth aged 16-29 residing or accessing services in Toronto. For more information about the project, please visit www.piecestopathways.com geoff is a mixed race genderqueer anarchist that believes in creating communities of love and still dreams of smashing the state. they wish to politicize their experiences with substance use and sobriety while unravelling the limited representation of the addicted body. recently, geoff co-presented a panel titled “new ways of knowing: doing disability studies differently” at the reclaiming our bodies and minds conference 2015 in Toronto. their paper titled “destabilizing disability: including addiction for cross-movement solidarity” discussed the significance for coalition building across identities of difference. this paper is made available in knots: an undergraduate journal of disability studies, thorough the equity studies department at new college, university of Toronto. more on their work can be found at livingnotexisting.org
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