Disability Arts as Disability Justice: Racialized Disabled Artists Navigating the Arts in Canada
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disability arts and culture, accessibility, Canada
Abstract
Disability arts contribute to culture and disability justice in Canada, yet racialized disabled artists experience barriers to artistic recognition and accessing artistic spaces and resources. This article explores these obstacles and highlights the role of activist art and the significance of community to better support their work.
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Amy Li, Carleton University
Amy Li is a Masters student in the Department of Sociology and Anthropology at Carleton University. Her research interests include disability arts, disability culture, Chinese diasporas, and care. She has an undergraduate degree in Public Affairs and Policy Management, with a specialization in Social Policy, from Carleton University.
Kelly Fritsch, Carleton University
Kelly Fritsch holds a Canada Research Chair in Disability, Health, and Social Justice and is an Associate Professor in the Department of Sociology and Anthropology at Carleton University. She leads and supports research projects that build disability culture, politics, and community, and that expand accessibility practices against ableism. She is author of We Move Together (2021), a children’s book about ableism, accessibility, and disability culture, and co-editor of Disability Injustice: Confronting Criminalization in Canada (2022) and Keywords for Radicals: The Contested Vocabulary of Late-Capitalist Struggle (2016). Her forthcoming book, Broken Worlds, Disabled Kin: Strategies for Collective Survival(2026), marks a terrain of political struggle that expands possible futures for disabled people, ecologies, and kin.