events

PAST AND UPCOMING EVENTS

Not Going Back To Normal - A Disabled Artists Manifesto Launch

Not Going Back to Normal is a provocation about how things are and an idea for how things could be. This gallery manifesto gathers disabled artists in their diversity, rage, and imagination to call out the institutional ableism in the Scottish arts and picture a future in which disabled artists are central. I was humbled to read my poem, IMAGINE, at the launch.

Friday Forum #8 - Visual Arts Scotland and Creative Informatics

Friday Forum is an online sharing event for creatives, where they can showcase snippets of their work, give virtual tours around their current studio spaces, talk about a particular topic or theme, or provide insights into their creative practice or career.

Disability in the Arts: Smashing Stigma, Creating Access and Using Your Voice - YWCA

This webinar for the Young Women's Movement in Scotland (YWCA) will look at how society views disability and how we can use our voices to create access and equality for disabled people.

WomenBeing Talks:

I was invited to talk about the impact of Covid-19 on the lives of disabled women, along with Dr. Catriona Stewart, Founder of the Scottish Women's Autism Network (SWAN); for WomenBeing Magazine's Online Talk series. WomenBeing Magazine is a magazine of international feminist perspectives.

Edinburgh City of Literature Spotlight:

I was invited to discuss the impact of Covid-19 on my life as a disabled woman along with author, Ever Dundas, for the Edinburgh City of Literature Spotlight feature, which aims to support artists during the pandemic.

Breaking the Mould: Creating Disabled and Low-Income Access to Publishing - Paisley Book Festival

I was delighted to bring together award-winning author Ever Dundas with Stuart White, founder of Write Mentor; Briana Pegado, director of Creative Edinburgh; and Lynsey Rogers, Writing Communities Coordinator at the Scottish Book Trust, in a discussion about diversity in publishing – and what positive changes are being made to open the gates - for Paisley Book Festival's inaugural festival.

(Re)Presenting Cover Girls - International Magazine Centre:

I was invited to talk on a panel about representation of diversity in women's magazines. The talk followed a presentation by Dr Gabrielle Bittelbrun and Dr Ivana Ebel on their research into representation of minorities over 5 years and on more than 550 magazine covers. I joined Arusa Quereshi, editor of The List, Jamie Jefferson, Co-Founder and CCO at Equator, Avril Gray, Head of Publishing at Edinburgh Napier University, and Dr Margaret Hughes, from the University of the West of Scotland.