Equity and Disability Learning Materials Launched by UofG Researchers

In 2012, Dr. Carla Rice—a University of Guelph professor in the Department of Family Relations and Applied Nutrition—founded the Re•Vision Centre for Art and Social Justice. The Centre strives to conduct research on the power of arts and stories to highlight systemic inequalities in the healthcare, education, and arts fields.  

Recently, the Re•Vision Centre partnered with over 200 contributors to launch a platform with a series of disability learning materials at the University of Guelph. Partners provided critical scholarship, illustrations, activities, online gallery exhibitions, videos, and digital stories to encourage people to think about different lived experiences. 

The platform is aimed at demonstrating the ways diverse bodies and minds make their way through a mainstream world. Key topics of discussion include the experience of having a disability, mental and physical differences, bodies who are perceived as either too big or too small, racialization and aging, and different gender presentations.  

The Bodies in Translation’s (BIT) Worlding Difference Platform allows users to explore multimedia art and book-length courses in an effort to encourage critical thinking about difference, systemic injustices, and the power of storytelling.  

Currently, there are seven courses available on the platform, free to explore. To learn more about the courses and the initiative, check out the full UofG news post.