Tag: futures
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Disabled Dreaming
I’m happy to share that I’ve had two pieces published in Disabled Dreaming: Seeking a Future of Proactive Accessibility in Teaching & Learning, the second issue of the Dis/Orientation zine published by McMaster University. You can read them through the links below. Dreaming Through the Cracks is an essay about the generative potential of neglect…
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Peer Support Futures
My essay, “Peer Support Futures” has been published in The Perch, an open-access (free to read) creative arts mental health journal, published by the Yale Program for Recovery and Community Health. Read “Peer Support Futures” online This paper is based on my previous major research paper “Dreaming Peer Support Futures“, and is an exploration of…
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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 support sector in Ontario and beyond — early indicators of change with the potential to dramatically shape what the sector will look like in the…
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Peer Futures Reading List
In celebration of the new year, I thought I would share a list of 10 books I am looking forward to reading (or re-reading) in 2025, related to peerness / community care, futurity, and peer futures. Care Work:Dreaming Disability Justice Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha2018 Inara:Light of Utopia Mx. Yaffa AS (Editor)2024 Living Disability:Building Accessible Futures for…
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Mapping Peer Support Futures
On February 27, I facilitated a workshop for PeerWorks members with the goal of mapping the future of mental health peer support and outlining possible scenarios. This workshop was attended by 6 peer workers, primarily from Ontario. Below is a summary of some of our discussions. [A short summary of the results from this workshop…
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Peer Support Futures: Conference Presentation
On February 6, I will be doing a presentation on my research on peer support futures as a part of the 4th annual virtual Peer Support Strong conference, hosted by PeerWorks and the Lived Experience & Recovery Network. Introducing Peer Support Futures: On Hope, Dream, and Building Utopia Tuesday, February 62:00 – 2:45 Eastern Time…
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Dreaming Peer Support Futures
My major research paper, Dreaming Peer Support Futures, is now available on YorkSpace! Drawing on practices of diffractive reading supported by zine-making methods, throughout this major research paper I explore the question: “what could a lens of futurity offer the discipline of consumer/survivor peer support?” In Chapter 1, I engage in a theoretical dialogue between…
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Dreaming Together: (Re)Imagining Pathways for Peer Advancement
On May 9, 2023, during the PeerWorks Annual Conference, Colene Allen and I facilitated a “dreaming together” networking session / workshop on the topic of possible pathways for career advancement within the peer sector.
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