Panelist Bios
Kelly Fritsch is an Associate Professor in the Department of Sociology and Anthropology at Carleton University in Ottawa on unceded Algonquin territory. Her research, teaching, and community contributions are united by a deep commitment to transforming the ableist social relations that structurally exclude and oppress disabled people. She is co-author of We Move Together, a children’s book about ableism, accessibility, and disability culture, and co-editor of Disability Injustice: Confronting Criminalization in Canada. She is also co-editor of Keywords for Radicals: The Contested Vocabulary of Late-Capitalist Struggle. Her current book project is titled A Broken Politics for a Disabled World, and takes up the ways disability justice and crip culture is central to expanding possible futures for disabled people, ecologies, and kin.
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moira williams (they/them) is a disabled artist, disability cultural activist, access doula, curator and dreamer of Lenni Lenape, Kickapoo and Sami descent. They believe in and initiate everyday magic, ancestor time, ecological intimacies, access as art, and celebratory crip resistance in their daily relationships. moira’s ongoing co-creativity with water and people, unsettles ableist and ecological boundaries between bodies by imagining “ecological intimacy” as an expansion of Mia Mingus’s concept of “access intimacy." Their works and invitations hope to open relational ways of being and thinking that include our bodymind-spirits, multispecies and mutual empathy as ways to break away from colonial technologies and ableisms shaping human relationships, our bodies and land relationships.
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Erika Jean Lincoln (she/her) Erika Jean’s art practice revolves around embodied learning and non-verbal communication. She works in the disciplines of New Media Arts and Disability Arts where she examines the complex coupling between technologies and neurodivergence. She is a graduate of the University of Manitoba with a BFA and a BA and has participated in exhibitions at The Hole NYC, Science Gallery Ireland, Boston Cyberarts Gallery, USA, Bauhaus-Archiv Germany, and the Winnipeg Art Gallery-Qaumajuq Canada. Erika Jean has been invited to many residencies where she has collaborated with neuroscientists and software engineers, and co-facilitated seminars with disability arts activists and scholars.