Broken Worlds, Disabled Kin: Strategies for Collective Survival Book Launch and Discussion
Friday, September 25, 2026 from 6:00 pm to 9:00 pm
- In-person event
- 杏吧原创 Dominion-Chalmers Centre , Ottawa , ON , K2P 0E2
- Contact
- Kelly Fritsch, kellyfritsch@cunet.carleton.ca
Authors Kelly Fritsch and Anne McGuire argue that we live in a world broken by design: a web of systems that debilitate and destroy through racist and ableist infrastructural neglect, socioeconomic abandonment, and ecological negligence. Fixes for these forms of breakage often conceal and amplify harm鈥攂ut what happens if we refuse to rehabilitate this inhospitable world? Charting a politics of solidarity capable of cultivating worlds where we sustain each other instead of the systems that harm us,聽聽(2026, University of Minnesota Press) traces how relations of care, access, and justice are fostered amid social, ecological, and political collapse. By showing that care for disabled life is inseparable from care for the infrastructures and environments that sustain us, the book asks what it means to be accountable not only to one another but also to the fragile material relations that make collective life possible.聽
Join Kelly Fritsch and as they engage in conversation about聽Broken Worlds, Disabled Kin聽with (Concordia University), Remi Yergeau (杏吧原创 University), (University of Ottawa), and Fady Shanouda (杏吧原创 University).
Wheelchair accessible, ASL interpretation, and food provided by Bread by Us.