Covid
COVID (2019-Present) is a collection of resources and reflections related to living, studying, advocating, and supporting throughout the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic.
Other resources can be found through the group Push Back on Mac, which I co-founded alongside other McMaster students in response to the inaccessible and unsafe mandatory return to in-person learning during the height of the Omicron wave.
publications & reports
Calvin Prowse (in press). Dreaming Through the Cracks. Disabled Dreaming: Seeking a Future of Proactive Accessibility in Teaching & Learning. McMaster University.
Calvin Prowse (in press). “Do you want me to wear a mask, too? (and other Frequently Asked Questions). Community Safety Zine. OPIRG Toronto & OPIRG York.
Push Back on Mac (2022). Leading Post-Secondary Education Towards a “New Normal”: Centering Safety, Accessibility, Innovation, and Interdependence in the World of COVID-19 [Policy Brief].
Disability Action Group (2020, March 24). COVID-19 Remote Learning Accessibility Audit. McMaster School of Social Work.
“We should be framing this pandemic in terms of interdependence.
This is the right political framing because it is the only moral and humane framing.
Interdependence acknowledges
that our survival is bound up together, that we are interconnected and what you do impacts others.”
— Mia Mingus, 2022
You Are Not Entitled To Our Deaths:
COVID, Abled Supremacy & Interdependence
blog posts
Calvin Prowse (2020). COVID-19: Information, resources, and considerations for peer support. Ontario Peer Development Initiative.
zines
Available for purchase through my zine shop:
- purple basil lemonade, 2023
“’Normal’ was a lie meant to pacify us and discourage challenging a society built around racism, ableism and white supremacy.
Because of these systems, disabled people and communities of color have been devastated all while simultaneously experiencing systemic racism and police violence.
And you want normal?”
— Imani Barabarin, 2022
You’re Never Getting “Normal” Back
panels
Push Back on “Back to Mac” (2022, Feb. 7). Push Back on Mac, McMaster University.
presentations
Calvin Prowse (2023, Oct. 28). Purple Basil Lemonade: Community Rituals for Crip Pasts / Presents / Futures. Disability Arts & Crip Futurities Conference, Trent University.
Calvin Prowse & Emunah Woolf (2021). Remote (M)access: Reflections on the Digital (Re)Creation of a University Peer Support Service. OPDI, LERN, & CMHA North Bay & District: Peer Support Strong Conference.
Calvin Prowse & Emunah Woolf (2021). Remote (M)access: Transitioning Peer Support Online. Flash Presentations: Critical Disability Research & Teaching Cluster, McMaster University.
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