Ann Fudge Schormans
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 284834 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | Ann Fudge Schormans |
| NOMBRES | Ann Fudge |
| APELLIDO | Schormans |
| FIRMA | SCHORMANS A F |
| AFILIACIONES | McMaster University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-7892-3599 |
| VERIFICADO | Sí |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 25 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 63 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 25 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2004 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2025 |
| ÍNDICE H | 5 |
What and Who Are “Essential”? A Disability Justice Perspective on Covid-19 Measures and the Diverse Disability Communities in Ontario
Central to Ontario’s COVID-19 response was defining, supporting, and protecting essential services and, by extension, essential people – often through decision-making processes that were ad hoc and lacking in meaningful public engagement. This paper examines the Ontario government’s public health responses to the COVID-19 pandemic, from the early steps taken in 2020 by provincial officials to develop a triage protocol for hospitals that would dis…
Feminism Means Having the Same Rights as Everyone”
You've got to learn how to be more vulnerable
What is feminism
This exploratory study investigates the intersection of feminism and intellectual disability. Despite the feminist movement’s commitment to inclusivity, women with intellectual disabilities often remain marginalized within feminist discourse and activism. This study aims to understand how women with intellectual disabilities perceive feminism, their identification with feminist movements, and the social issues they prioritize. Drawing on eight in…
Asking for Help was Really Helpful, but Definitely Hard to Say
A small body of work has examined the intersection of masculinity and disability. Key early studies focused attention on the ways in which men with acquired physical disabilities negotiated this dilemma, and the extent to which their strategies contested or reproduced gender norms. Recent work has called for greater attention to the diversity of men's experiences across disabilities, as well as the dynamic and shifting configurations of gender an…
All your value is wrapped up in your capabilities’
A qualitative analysis of housing and homemaking for people labelled/with intellectual disabilities in Ontario, Canada
In this article, we examine people labelled/with intellectual disabilities' experiences of their current homes and what they imagine or desire for their home in the future. Definitions of home in Canadian and Ontario policy are based on neoliberal and ableist notions of the dwelling and leave out other important elements of home. In this article, we will use quotes and artwork from a broader study to argue for a broadening of the definition of ho…
Building community or perpetuating inclusionism? The representation of “inclusion” on fitness facility websites
Despite mandates for inclusion, fitness spaces are often unwelcoming for bodies of difference. The disconnect between the formal rules (e.g. policies) of inclusion and people’s ongoing lived experiences of exclusion is what disability scholars call inclusionism. We used Google Maps to search for ‘inclusive gyms’ in our medium-sized city in Canada and curated a list of 47 facility websites. Using a collaborative reflexive thematic analysis, our ob…
Making visible the prevalence of self-identified disability among youth experiencing homelessness
The study of youth homelessness has explored important intersections of homelessness with the child welfare, education, criminal justice, and mental health sectors. An invisible intersection in this research is the intersection of disability and homelessness, particularly intellectual, developmental, and learning disabilities for youth experiencing homelessness. The Partnering for Change research project has examined this intersection through an …
Narrative analysis of exclusion from social participation and loneliness among Black older adults in Ontario, Canada
Social participation is an effective way to reduce loneliness among older adults. However, little is known about Black older adults’ (BOAs’) poor participation in social programs. This study thus explores the varied factors that shape BOAs’ participation in social programs and services and how lack of social participation contributes to loneliness. 13 BOAs with mean age of 63.8 participated in this narrative study. Misrepresentation of BOAs in so…
Coalition-In-Progress
For institutional survivors and their younger peers labelled/with intellectual disability, the COVID-19 pandemic and its related lockdowns carry over past experiences under government-directed isolation and mandatory medical interventions. The sudden convergence of past and present necropolitical ableism in labeled persons' lives colours this crisis, as we—a group of survivors, younger labeled people (who have not lived in institutions), and rese…
Coming to Critical Disability Studies
This paper describes how four ‘helping’ professionals came to embrace and teach critical disability studies (CDS) perspectives rather than biomedical approaches to impairment and disability that traditionally inform those professions (occupational therapy, physiotherapy, social work, and speech-language pathology). Sharing examples from our experiences, we describe how we came to question the normative, ableist assumptions of our professional dis…
Social isolation continued
Covid-19 has been an unprecedented time for social work as a profession and even more so for marginalized communities. This paper shares the reflections of three self-advocates (persons labelled/with intellectual disabilities engaged in advocacy and activism), a social worker, and a social work educator and researcher. It is intended as a rallying cry for social work to rethink how we deliver services to ensure that people who have already been m…
Including people with intellectual disabilities in the mobilities turn
Geographic research about disability and mobility often foregrounds the built environment as a site of in/exclusion. People with intellectual disabilities (IDs) have been mostly absent from this scholarship. To respond to this gap, we draw from an in-depth set of ‘mobile interviews’ with people with IDs in Toronto, Canada. Using a thematic approach, this paper suggests that more-than-material relations matter to the everyday mobilities and immobi…
Voices of youths on engagement in community life
Little is known from the perspectives of youths with intellectual and developmental disabilities themselves about their experiences related to inclusion, engagement in community life and friendship, and their quality of life. The Voices of Youths research project used an inclusive approach to learn from youths about these experiences. Twenty-four youths (age 13–24 years) with a range of intellectual and developmental disabilities diagnostic ‘labe…
I think they're treating me like a kid’
Geographers have made important contributions to scholarship on the lived experiences of masculinity, highlighting the ways in which identities emerge through embodied and emplaced performances that are shaped by intersecting dimensions of gender, sexuality, race, class and religion. While a small number of studies have considered masculinity in relation to physical disability, more work is needed to examine other experiences of disability and th…
Building collaboration in the co‐production of knowledge with people with intellectual disabilities about their everyday use of city space
We engage with scholarship in participatory geographies and critical disability studies to consider the difficulties and prospects of co‐producing knowledge with people with intellectual disabilities in a project examining their uses of urban public space. The research employed an inclusive, collaborative design and had an explicit focus on social change, articulated in the research process (e.g., the development of research and self‐advocacy ski…
The invisibility of disability for homeless youth
A largely unexplored complexity in the lives of youth who have experienced homeless is the presence of intellectual, developmental and/or learning disabilities. Although emerging research shows that youth with cognitive disabilities are more likely to become homeless and that rates of cognitive disabilities are higher among the homeless population than the population in general, exploring the intersection of disability and homelessness for youth …
Shopping, social inclusion and the urban geographies of people with intellectual disability
In this paper, we examine the social geographies of people with intellectual disabilities. We focus particular attention on the significance of shopping and spaces of consumption as they relate to questions social inclusion and belonging in the lives of PWID. The focus on consumption offers a useful counterpoint to a prevailing policy emphasis on social inclusion through productive activities. The paper also contributes to the literature on intel…
Reimagining Parenting Possibilities
At the heart of this paper is a collaboratively created script representing a line of analysis from the Reimagining Parenting Possibilities Project. The script is performed as a forum theatre scene used to disseminate findings from this ongoing research project. Forum theatre, an exemplar of Augusto Boal’s “theatre of the oppressed,” invites audience members into a scene, inventing through embodied performance and improvisation analyses and inter…
Some people are not allowed to love’
Disability helps us think differently about the ‘ideal’ neoliberal-able citizen who may not equate to ideas of productive, sexual, ‘normal’. Intimate citizenship – our rights and access to intimacy – is often ignored by those working with people labelled with intellectual disabilities and in research. In this article, we discuss the outcome of a dialogue between self-advocates labelled with intellectual disabilities, academics, service providers,…
Weightless?’
Missing in discussions of visual representations of people with intellectual disabilities are their own perspectives. Rooted in Derrida’s concern with the ‘right of inspection’ over visual representations, participatory arts-informed methodologies were used in research with people with intellectual disabilities. They critiqued and then used Photoshop to transform public photographs of labeled people. Responding to visual constructions of labeled …
The Reworking of Spatial Attribution
Epilogues and Prefaces
It is well established that public photographic representations of people with intellectual disabilities strongly influences what we think we know about people so labelled. This paper reports on the unanticipated outcomes of a research project that looked at the ways in which public photographs often construct people with intellectual disabilities as dysfunctional, from the perspectives of the labelled people themselves. Research participants wit…
Experiences Following the Deaths of Disabled Foster Children
Foster parents in the child welfare system occupy a unique position in our culture. While expected to parent and provide safe, loving, and normative family experiences to a child removed from her/his family of origin, they are, simultaneously, expected to remember that they are not the child's biological parent. Increasingly, foster parents are being asked to care for children with severe disabilities that sometimes precipitate an early death. Ho…
Shopping, social inclusion and the urban geographies of people with intellectual disability
In this paper, we examine the social geographies of people with intellectual disabilities. We focus particular attention on the significance of shopping and spaces of consumption as they relate to questions social inclusion and belonging in the lives of PWID. The focus on consumption offers a useful counterpoint to a prevailing policy emphasis on social inclusion through productive activities. The paper also contributes to the literature on intel…
Voices of youths on engagement in community life
Little is known from the perspectives of youths with intellectual and developmental disabilities themselves about their experiences related to inclusion, engagement in community life and friendship, and their quality of life. The Voices of Youths research project used an inclusive approach to learn from youths about these experiences. Twenty-four youths (age 13–24 years) with a range of intellectual and developmental disabilities diagnostic ‘labe…
Some people are not allowed to love’
Disability helps us think differently about the ‘ideal’ neoliberal-able citizen who may not equate to ideas of productive, sexual, ‘normal’. Intimate citizenship – our rights and access to intimacy – is often ignored by those working with people labelled with intellectual disabilities and in research. In this article, we discuss the outcome of a dialogue between self-advocates labelled with intellectual disabilities, academics, service providers,…
Including people with intellectual disabilities in the mobilities turn
Geographic research about disability and mobility often foregrounds the built environment as a site of in/exclusion. People with intellectual disabilities (IDs) have been mostly absent from this scholarship. To respond to this gap, we draw from an in-depth set of ‘mobile interviews’ with people with IDs in Toronto, Canada. Using a thematic approach, this paper suggests that more-than-material relations matter to the everyday mobilities and immobi…
Building collaboration in the co‐production of knowledge with people with intellectual disabilities about their everyday use of city space
We engage with scholarship in participatory geographies and critical disability studies to consider the difficulties and prospects of co‐producing knowledge with people with intellectual disabilities in a project examining their uses of urban public space. The research employed an inclusive, collaborative design and had an explicit focus on social change, articulated in the research process (e.g., the development of research and self‐advocacy ski…
Reimagining Parenting Possibilities
At the heart of this paper is a collaboratively created script representing a line of analysis from the Reimagining Parenting Possibilities Project. The script is performed as a forum theatre scene used to disseminate findings from this ongoing research project. Forum theatre, an exemplar of Augusto Boal’s “theatre of the oppressed,” invites audience members into a scene, inventing through embodied performance and improvisation analyses and inter…
I think they're treating me like a kid’
Geographers have made important contributions to scholarship on the lived experiences of masculinity, highlighting the ways in which identities emerge through embodied and emplaced performances that are shaped by intersecting dimensions of gender, sexuality, race, class and religion. While a small number of studies have considered masculinity in relation to physical disability, more work is needed to examine other experiences of disability and th…
The Reworking of Spatial Attribution
Epilogues and Prefaces
It is well established that public photographic representations of people with intellectual disabilities strongly influences what we think we know about people so labelled. This paper reports on the unanticipated outcomes of a research project that looked at the ways in which public photographs often construct people with intellectual disabilities as dysfunctional, from the perspectives of the labelled people themselves. Research participants wit…
Narrative analysis of exclusion from social participation and loneliness among Black older adults in Ontario, Canada
Social participation is an effective way to reduce loneliness among older adults. However, little is known about Black older adults’ (BOAs’) poor participation in social programs. This study thus explores the varied factors that shape BOAs’ participation in social programs and services and how lack of social participation contributes to loneliness. 13 BOAs with mean age of 63.8 participated in this narrative study. Misrepresentation of BOAs in so…
Weightless?’
Missing in discussions of visual representations of people with intellectual disabilities are their own perspectives. Rooted in Derrida’s concern with the ‘right of inspection’ over visual representations, participatory arts-informed methodologies were used in research with people with intellectual disabilities. They critiqued and then used Photoshop to transform public photographs of labeled people. Responding to visual constructions of labeled …
Experiences Following the Deaths of Disabled Foster Children
Foster parents in the child welfare system occupy a unique position in our culture. While expected to parent and provide safe, loving, and normative family experiences to a child removed from her/his family of origin, they are, simultaneously, expected to remember that they are not the child's biological parent. Increasingly, foster parents are being asked to care for children with severe disabilities that sometimes precipitate an early death. Ho…
Epilogues and Prefaces
It is well established that public photographic representations of people with intellectual disabilities strongly influences what we think we know about people so labelled. This paper reports on the unanticipated outcomes of a research project that looked at the ways in which public photographs often construct people with intellectual disabilities as dysfunctional, from the perspectives of the labelled people themselves. Research participants wit…
The Reworking of Spatial Attribution
Weightless?’
Missing in discussions of visual representations of people with intellectual disabilities are their own perspectives. Rooted in Derrida’s concern with the ‘right of inspection’ over visual representations, participatory arts-informed methodologies were used in research with people with intellectual disabilities. They critiqued and then used Photoshop to transform public photographs of labeled people. Responding to visual constructions of labeled …
Reimagining Parenting Possibilities
At the heart of this paper is a collaboratively created script representing a line of analysis from the Reimagining Parenting Possibilities Project. The script is performed as a forum theatre scene used to disseminate findings from this ongoing research project. Forum theatre, an exemplar of Augusto Boal’s “theatre of the oppressed,” invites audience members into a scene, inventing through embodied performance and improvisation analyses and inter…
Some people are not allowed to love’
Disability helps us think differently about the ‘ideal’ neoliberal-able citizen who may not equate to ideas of productive, sexual, ‘normal’. Intimate citizenship – our rights and access to intimacy – is often ignored by those working with people labelled with intellectual disabilities and in research. In this article, we discuss the outcome of a dialogue between self-advocates labelled with intellectual disabilities, academics, service providers,…
The invisibility of disability for homeless youth
A largely unexplored complexity in the lives of youth who have experienced homeless is the presence of intellectual, developmental and/or learning disabilities. Although emerging research shows that youth with cognitive disabilities are more likely to become homeless and that rates of cognitive disabilities are higher among the homeless population than the population in general, exploring the intersection of disability and homelessness for youth …
Shopping, social inclusion and the urban geographies of people with intellectual disability
In this paper, we examine the social geographies of people with intellectual disabilities. We focus particular attention on the significance of shopping and spaces of consumption as they relate to questions social inclusion and belonging in the lives of PWID. The focus on consumption offers a useful counterpoint to a prevailing policy emphasis on social inclusion through productive activities. The paper also contributes to the literature on intel…
Voices of youths on engagement in community life
Little is known from the perspectives of youths with intellectual and developmental disabilities themselves about their experiences related to inclusion, engagement in community life and friendship, and their quality of life. The Voices of Youths research project used an inclusive approach to learn from youths about these experiences. Twenty-four youths (age 13–24 years) with a range of intellectual and developmental disabilities diagnostic ‘labe…
I think they're treating me like a kid’
Geographers have made important contributions to scholarship on the lived experiences of masculinity, highlighting the ways in which identities emerge through embodied and emplaced performances that are shaped by intersecting dimensions of gender, sexuality, race, class and religion. While a small number of studies have considered masculinity in relation to physical disability, more work is needed to examine other experiences of disability and th…
Building collaboration in the co‐production of knowledge with people with intellectual disabilities about their everyday use of city space
We engage with scholarship in participatory geographies and critical disability studies to consider the difficulties and prospects of co‐producing knowledge with people with intellectual disabilities in a project examining their uses of urban public space. The research employed an inclusive, collaborative design and had an explicit focus on social change, articulated in the research process (e.g., the development of research and self‐advocacy ski…
Including people with intellectual disabilities in the mobilities turn
Geographic research about disability and mobility often foregrounds the built environment as a site of in/exclusion. People with intellectual disabilities (IDs) have been mostly absent from this scholarship. To respond to this gap, we draw from an in-depth set of ‘mobile interviews’ with people with IDs in Toronto, Canada. Using a thematic approach, this paper suggests that more-than-material relations matter to the everyday mobilities and immobi…
Coming to Critical Disability Studies
This paper describes how four ‘helping’ professionals came to embrace and teach critical disability studies (CDS) perspectives rather than biomedical approaches to impairment and disability that traditionally inform those professions (occupational therapy, physiotherapy, social work, and speech-language pathology). Sharing examples from our experiences, we describe how we came to question the normative, ableist assumptions of our professional dis…
Social isolation continued
Covid-19 has been an unprecedented time for social work as a profession and even more so for marginalized communities. This paper shares the reflections of three self-advocates (persons labelled/with intellectual disabilities engaged in advocacy and activism), a social worker, and a social work educator and researcher. It is intended as a rallying cry for social work to rethink how we deliver services to ensure that people who have already been m…
Coalition-In-Progress
For institutional survivors and their younger peers labelled/with intellectual disability, the COVID-19 pandemic and its related lockdowns carry over past experiences under government-directed isolation and mandatory medical interventions. The sudden convergence of past and present necropolitical ableism in labeled persons' lives colours this crisis, as we—a group of survivors, younger labeled people (who have not lived in institutions), and rese…
Building community or perpetuating inclusionism? The representation of “inclusion” on fitness facility websites
Despite mandates for inclusion, fitness spaces are often unwelcoming for bodies of difference. The disconnect between the formal rules (e.g. policies) of inclusion and people’s ongoing lived experiences of exclusion is what disability scholars call inclusionism. We used Google Maps to search for ‘inclusive gyms’ in our medium-sized city in Canada and curated a list of 47 facility websites. Using a collaborative reflexive thematic analysis, our ob…
Making visible the prevalence of self-identified disability among youth experiencing homelessness
The study of youth homelessness has explored important intersections of homelessness with the child welfare, education, criminal justice, and mental health sectors. An invisible intersection in this research is the intersection of disability and homelessness, particularly intellectual, developmental, and learning disabilities for youth experiencing homelessness. The Partnering for Change research project has examined this intersection through an …
Narrative analysis of exclusion from social participation and loneliness among Black older adults in Ontario, Canada
Social participation is an effective way to reduce loneliness among older adults. However, little is known about Black older adults’ (BOAs’) poor participation in social programs. This study thus explores the varied factors that shape BOAs’ participation in social programs and services and how lack of social participation contributes to loneliness. 13 BOAs with mean age of 63.8 participated in this narrative study. Misrepresentation of BOAs in so…
All your value is wrapped up in your capabilities’
A qualitative analysis of housing and homemaking for people labelled/with intellectual disabilities in Ontario, Canada
In this article, we examine people labelled/with intellectual disabilities' experiences of their current homes and what they imagine or desire for their home in the future. Definitions of home in Canadian and Ontario policy are based on neoliberal and ableist notions of the dwelling and leave out other important elements of home. In this article, we will use quotes and artwork from a broader study to argue for a broadening of the definition of ho…
What and Who Are “Essential”? A Disability Justice Perspective on Covid-19 Measures and the Diverse Disability Communities in Ontario
Central to Ontario’s COVID-19 response was defining, supporting, and protecting essential services and, by extension, essential people – often through decision-making processes that were ad hoc and lacking in meaningful public engagement. This paper examines the Ontario government’s public health responses to the COVID-19 pandemic, from the early steps taken in 2020 by provincial officials to develop a triage protocol for hospitals that would dis…
Feminism Means Having the Same Rights as Everyone”
You've got to learn how to be more vulnerable
What is feminism
This exploratory study investigates the intersection of feminism and intellectual disability. Despite the feminist movement’s commitment to inclusivity, women with intellectual disabilities often remain marginalized within feminist discourse and activism. This study aims to understand how women with intellectual disabilities perceive feminism, their identification with feminist movements, and the social issues they prioritize. Drawing on eight in…
Asking for Help was Really Helpful, but Definitely Hard to Say
A small body of work has examined the intersection of masculinity and disability. Key early studies focused attention on the ways in which men with acquired physical disabilities negotiated this dilemma, and the extent to which their strategies contested or reproduced gender norms. Recent work has called for greater attention to the diversity of men's experiences across disabilities, as well as the dynamic and shifting configurations of gender an…
Sociology (23 obras) · Psychology (20 obras) · Political science (19 obras) · Disability Rights and Representation (14 obras) · Gender Studies (14 obras) · Gender Studies (10 obras) · Social science (10 obras) · Law (9 obras) · Computer Science (8 obras) · Intellectual disability (8 obras)