We are thrilled to share that , co-edited by Fady Shanouda, Chelsea Temple Jones, and Lisanne Binhammer, is officially out today through Athabasca University Press! Published as part of the Issues in Distance Education series, this collection brings together scholars, educators, poets, and activists who explore how ableism persists in online learning spaces—and how we can do better.

Often framed as a tool for inclusion, online education is too frequently designed without the leadership or experiences of disabled, sick, mad, and crip educators and students. This timely volume challenges that gap. Through essays, conversations, interviews, and poetry, contributors reimagine what access could look like when rooted in justice, not just compliance.

In Fady Shanouda’s own chapter, “Caring Online: A Justice-Oriented Approach to Online Pedagogy” (co-authored with Jenna Reid), we’re invited to rethink care and connection in virtual classrooms. Rather than positioning access as a checklist or afterthought, the chapter—and the book as a whole—pushes us to center accessibility as a collective and political commitment.

In a time when digital learning is rapidly expanding, is an essential intervention. It expands our collective thinking about disability, design, and education—especially in spaces where the harms of inaccessibility are too easily hidden behind screens.

Please join us in congratulating Dr. Fady Shanouda and the entire editorial team on this powerful and much-needed publication. We look forward to seeing how it informs teaching, organizing, and advocacy in and beyond the academy.

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Students in Prof. Fady Shanouda‘s “Disability Studies: Policy and Activism” course (DBST 3001) took on the incredible task of assessing the accessibility levels of 336 washrooms across the ÐÓ°ÉÔ­´´ University campus this semester for their class project. They developed a and an interactive and searchable of all these washrooms. Part of their final work is to share and disseminate the website/map. Take a moment to explore their project and spread the word!

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Dr. Fady Shanouda, assistant professor at the Feminist Institute of Social Transformation, will be one of two keynote speakers at the . The Jean-Paul Dionne Symposium is an annual bilingual research conference organized by graduate students from the Faculty of Education at the University of Ottawa.

Founded in 1985 by Professor Jean-Paul Dionne, the Symposium has grown to encompass two full days of activities and attracts graduate students from across Canada and the United States to participate.

Dr. Shanouda will share his insights on the second day of the symposium, Friday, March 2 (10:00 AM – 11:30 AM), which is titled “Maddening Higher Education: Beyond Frameworks and Transfers.” This event is hybrid, and will be live-streamed and recorded to be made available at a later date.

. You can also view the .

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CALL FOR PAPERS!

Review of Disability Studies (RDS) Special Issue:

Conversations with/across the Global South: Towards Decolonial Disability Futurities

The is an anonymous peer-reviewed, multidisciplinary, open-access, academic and international journal published by the . RDS is targeted towards any person interested in disability studies, with readers and authors from all over the world.

Submissions are being accepted in English of a scholarly nature covering a range of disciplines within disability studies as well as creative works expressing ideas in the area of disability. The overall RDS journal contains the following sections: Research and Essays, Topical Forums, Creative Works, Global Perspective on Disability Studies, Multi-Media Review, Notes from the Field, and Dissertation Abstracts. For more detailed information in regard to submissions to the RDS Special Issue, please visit the . If you have any questions or inquiries, please email: rdsj@hawaii.edu

Date for Submissions of Full Manuscripts: Tuesday, August 15, 2023    

Expected date of publication: January 2024

Inquiries may be sent to rdsj@hawaii.edu and/or the following guest editors:

• • Xuan Thuy Nguyen, ÐÓ°ÉÔ­´´ University
    • email: XuanThuy.Nguyen@carleton.ca
  • , St. Francis Xavier University
    • email: caubrech@stfx.ca
  • , Jawaharlal Nehru University
    • email: NilikaM@gmail.com

The submission information above was retrieved from

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FIST Assistant Professor and Critical Disability Studies scholar, Dr. Fady Shanouda, has a new book chapter titled “” in the Handbook of Disability. Check it out!

Abstract:

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Associate Professor in FIST, Xuan Thuy Nguyen, has completed her collaborative research project : Transforming Disability Knowledge, Research, and Activism (TDKRA). Thuy is the Principal Investigator of this SSHRC funded project, co-investigators include: Marnina Gonick, Claudia Mitchell, and Deborah Stienstra.

Today, on the International Day of the Girl Child, the Transforming Disability Knowledge, Research and Activism (TDKRA) project and the Decolonial Disability Studies Collective (DDSC) at ÐÓ°ÉÔ­´´ University release our final research report.

This 4-year project aimed to address the gap in knowledge about the situation of women and girls with disabilities in three disadvantaged communities in Vietnam and to build potential for their activism. It also aimed to connect research and activism to build a more transformative approach to inclusion and social justice in the global South.

The TDKRA project was implemented in 5 phases. In each phase, emphasis was given to strengthening partnership with local DPOs and community, building local leadership, training, and enhancing women’s skills to be co-facilitators in various participatory visual methods. The outcomes of this project show potential for women and girls with disabilities to engage in local and transnational activisms. We have further pushed against traditional research methods and sought to implement decolonial methodologies by way of epistemological engagement with Global South representations. To this end we have centered the experience of women and girls in the Global South and worked with them to produce their desired outcomes while also respecting their agency and supporting their feelings of empowerment throughout the research process.

Please kindly download the report at: /tkaa/2022/tdkra-project-released-final-report/

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The Pauline Jewett Institute of Women’s and Gender Studies is pleased to invite creative thinkers to submit proposals for our upcoming event, Communal Conversations: A Roundtable Symposium on the Future of Knowledge-Making, that aspire to move beyond institutionalized (academic, governmental, religious, medical, etc.) methods of inquiry and knowledge-making.

Please see here to access the full call for submissions and the guidelines to submit. This is open to all undergraduate and graduate students, as well as community members. Submissions can be sent to wgstsymposium2022@gmail.com by February 5^th, 2022.

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Dec 6, 2021

Dear friends of the Pauline Jewett Institute of Women’s and Gender Studies:

On this National Day of Remembrance and Action on Violence Against Women, we continue to to remember and to mourn the women whose lives were cut short at École Polytechnique in Montreal on December 6, 1989.  Although we cannot restore this terrible loss, we continue to honour and recognize it through the work that we do at the Institute to address gender-based violence, which continues in a multitude of forms.  As our poster suggests, there are intersectional connections to be made to specific forms of violence and misogyny against racialized and Indigenous women, transgender women, and femmes, LGBTQ2SIA+, and gender non-binary people.  We dedicate ourselves to creating spaces that are safe for open discussion and study for all, and where grief can be expressed, so that we can transform the worlds we live in to eradicate violence.

Ann Cvetkovich

Director, Pauline Jewett Institute of Women’s and Gender Studies

ÐÓ°ÉÔ­´´ University

Message to Undergraduate Students in WGST 1808

Dear 1808:

Today, December 6, is the National Day of Remembrance and Action on Violence Against Women, which is recognized across Turtle Island. This is a very important day that I would like to comment on. Please note, that there are references to violence below, especially gender-based, misogynistic violence. Please do not hesitate to contact anyone on the teaching team should you be looking for resources to discuss this violence.

 I would like to add that it is up to everyone in our community, regardless of gender, or ability, or race, or sexuality, or class, to call attention to not only the darkness of the misogynistic and gender-based violence that continues today, but also to the many victories for those who have fought for change.

However, as feminist thinkers in our learning community of WGST 1808, we are also keenly aware that when we talk about and take action on misogynistic and gender-based violence, we will consider gender, ability, race, sexuality, class, among other things. We will especially remember and consider that the very supports our communities can offer have workers who are the very perpetrators of the violence, such as in the legal system.

We are going to continue to talk about all of this in WGST 1808 and I am happy to talk about it with anyone via Zoom or in-person at ÐÓ°ÉÔ­´´. – Katherine Bausch

If you are looking for information on this National Day of Remembrance (this article contains detailed descriptions of violence and also national resources for support to talk about misogynistic and gender-based violence):

If you are looking for supports at ÐÓ°ÉÔ­´´:

ÐÓ°ÉÔ­´´ Sexual Assault Survivor Support:

ÐÓ°ÉÔ­´´ Sexual and Gender-Based Violence Prevention and Support Services:

If you are looking for other community-based supports:

Under the Umbrella:

Somerset West Community Health Centre Support Line for African, Caribbean, and Black Communities:

MMIW Ontario:

Western Ottawa Community Resource Centre:

For information and resources related to women with disabilities and violence:

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