About
calvin prowse is a social worker, therapeutic game master, peer worker, futurist, researcher, creative, and community organizer in disability, Mad/mental health, neurodiverse, and queer/trans communities, based in Hamilton, Ontario.
in their free time, you can find calvin making music and zines, drinking purple basil lemonade, and hanging out with their cat and plants.
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Updates
December 12
Calvin’s cyanotype of the Solar Eclipse (2024), will be on display at Hamilton Artists Inc. from December 12, 2025 to January 17, 2025 as a part of their annual SWARM members exhibition.
Sept 29
The PeerWorks Peer Book Club will be starting up our next series of readings on October 7. The Fall series of the book club will focus on a different short reading each week, instead of a full book.
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- Oct 7: Mutual Aid: Building Solidarity During this Crisis (And the Next), Dean Spade (2020), Parts 1-2 of Full Book OR Study Guide
- Oct 21: Suicide Intervention (for Weirdos, Freaks, and Queers), Carly Boyce (n.d.), Webinar or Zine
- Nov. 4: Fighting Psychiatric Abuse: The BPP and the Black Disability Politics of Mental and Carceral Institutions. Chapter in Black Disability Politics (pages 48-68), Sami Schalk (2022)
- Nov. 18: Pods and Pod Mapping Worksheet (6 pages), Ma Mingus & The BATJC (2016)
- Dec. 2: TBD
June 27
Calvin will be facilitating a workshop on approaches to peer support documentation, as a part of the PeerTalks learning series.
May 27
Calvin will facilitating a peer futures workshop at the 2025 Peer Support Conference, hosted by PeerWorks and Peer Support Canada. This workshop explores how diverse peer lineages shape how peer workers practice, and the futures our work is accountable to.
May 15
Calvin will joining a panel discussion on trans-led community care and peer support for trauma survivors, during SACHA’s Sexual Violence Prevention Month Community Conference.
March 25
The PeerWorks Peer Book Club will be starting up again on March 25. Our next book will be Care Work: Dreaming Disability Justice (2018) by Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha.
March 20
Calvin will be joining MSU Maccess and NEADS for the McMaster stop of the NEADS’ State of the Schools Tour. They will be on a panel about “Nothing About Us, Without Us,” and presenting on the history of disability organizing at McMaster University.
February 4
Calvin will be presenting their paper Claiming “Peer”: What’s in a Word? at the virtual Peer Support Strong Conference on February 4. This paper will explore the various ways “peerness” has been conceptualized in peer support literature and practice, and encourage a relational (re)turn within the sector.
December 6
Calvin’s cyanotype, Visiting Utopia, will be on display at Hamilton Artists Inc. from December 6, 2024 to January 11, 2025, as a part of their SWARM annual members exhibition.
Blog
Peer Book Club – Fall 2025
I’m excited to share that the PeerWorks Peer Book Club is back for the Fall — with our first meeting taking place on October 7! The Peer Book Club will…
Trends & Emerging Issues in Peer Support
Following the 2025 PeerWorks and Peer Support Canada conference in May, I have been reflecting on what I understand to be some key emerging issues and trends for the peer…
Peer Book Club
I’m excited to share the next book we will be reading for the Peer Book Club I co-facilitate with PeerWorks — Care Work: Dreaming Disability Justice (2018) by Leah Lakshmi…
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