Kelly Fritsch
Biographic Data
| ID | 283884 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Kelly Fritsch |
| GIVEN NAMES | Kelly |
| FAMILY NAME | Fritsch |
| SIGNATURE | FRITSCH K |
| AFFILIATIONS | Carleton University |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-0786-8198 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 18 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 77 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 17 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2013 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
Psychosomatic Futurities: Cripping the Future of Cultural Psychiatry in a Posthuman Landscape
This paper explores the ways in which cultural psychiatry can contribute to the understanding of the larger culture of medicine, through critical engagements with dualisms that structure medicine's curative imaginary—a social imaginary that positions disability as a deviation, a tragedy, and a problem to be solved. Developed as an experimental form of image/text analysis from a sensory ethnographic study of solid organ transplantation and drawing…
Troubling Transplant Temporality through Crip Technoscience and a Sensory Aesthetics of Time, Machine, and Health
Taking up technologies that act as a “bridge” to transplant, we explore what the lifeworlds of a transplant patient and their loved ones interacting with these technologies tells us about the temporality of transplantation and the imperative of cure.By engaging with clinical literature and practices, transdisciplinary crip technoscience theorizing, and multimodal, multisensory artistic form, we bring together sick and disabled people’s expertise …
Introduction: Undoing and Unfolding Temporal Modes of Transplantation
Transplant medicine is frequently hailed as a pinnacle of biomedical achievement. Curative imaginaries in the field often situate transplant as a cure and a return to health, producing bifurcated temporalities of before and after transplant and proposing futures that erase disability and disabled bodies. This Special Section centers the frictions in transplant temporalities, offering examinations of how transplant troubles the binaries of life an…
Cripistemologies of Drug Use Against Transinstitutional Carceral Ableism
Across Canada, thousands of drug users are dying from a toxic illicit drug supply resulting from oppressive drug policies and regulations that reinforce the prohibition and criminalization of drug use and the pathologization and rehabilitation of drug users. Bringing together critical drug studies and critical disability studies, the article contributes cripistemologies of drug use to unpack some of the ways transinstitutional carceral ableism co…
Moving Together Towards Collective Access (Dispatch)
We Move Together (WMT) (Fritsch et al., 2021) is a picture book that follows a mixed-ability group of children as they move around their city community.We see the children move in different ways -fast, slow, using their feet as well as wheelchairs, scooters, crutches, bikes, and canes.Along the way, the kids encounter a great many people and animals, as well as a number of obstaclescommunication barriers, inaccessible infrastructure, political di…
Surface and Depth in Sensory Ethnography: Casting Bodied Experience in an Arts-Based Interviewing Practice
Arts-based research can provide pivotal avenues for researchers and participants to explore experiences that are difficult to put into words. Arts-based methods offer important opportunities for participants to develop reflexive understanding through material interaction with art and mark-making supplies. While sensorial and embodied experiences are entangled with arts-based methods, there is little methodological and theoretical work that puts a…
Disability Injustice: Confronting Criminalization in Canada
A Conversation with Comics Not Otherwise Specified (CNOS) (Interview)
Crip Technoscience Manifesto
As disabled people engaged in disability community, activism, and scholarship, our collective experiences and histories have taught us that we are effective agents of world building and dismantling toward more socially just relations.The grounds for social justice and world remaking, however, are frictioned;technologies, architectures, and infrastructures are often designed and implemented without committing to disability as a difference that mat…
Risk and the Spectral Politics of Disability
Drawing on the institutional history of the sperm bank and legacies of eugenics, we consider how spectrums of risk simultaneously constrain and expand possibilities for disability justice. We do so by examining the discourses surrounding US-based Xytex Corporation sperm bank Donor 9623, described as the 'perfect' donor but later discovered to have a criminal record and a diagnosis of schizophrenia. Haunted by the dread of disability, we examine h…
The “Bio” Politics of Matter and Mattering for Feminist Engagements with Biosocial, Biocultural, and Posthuman Embodiment
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Introduction: The Biosocial Politics of Queer/Crip Contagions
Introduction:The Biosocial Politics of Queer/Crip Contagions Kelly Fritsch (bio) and Anne McGuire (bio) In this special issue, we chart the limits and possibilities of queer/crip biosocial politics by examining the ways these ideas intersect and commingle with the narratives, practices, and temporalities of contagion. Crip and queer mark out, and indeed, flaunt the failures of normativity. And, in their fierce assertion of the possibility of an o…
Reoccupying Desire
Blood Functions: Disability, Biosociality, and Facts of the Body
The article examines how blood has historically functioned through modes of biocertification to co-produce race and disability in the US as a stable, biological property of an individual so as to be able to know and govern such social identities. It then traces how with the rise of genomic research, this biologically based stable-identification has become a form of “biosociality,” pointing to the novel alliances between patients, scientists, poli…
Disability and sex work: Developing affinities through decriminalization
This article argues that strong policy frameworks are required to support the health and well-being of sex workers, disabled people, and disabled sex workers. Through an examination of the context of sex work in Canada, we articulate the flaws of sex work criminalization and the persistent barriers that criminalization creates. Our analysis of the intersection of disabled sexuality and access to sexual services identifies how the sex industry can…
Desiring Disability Differently: Neoliberalism, Heterotopic Imagination and Intra-corporeal Reconfigurations
Challenging the undesirability of disability is a shared responsibility that requires us to imagine disability differently. In order to imagine disability differently, we need to understand how the neoliberal hegemonic social imagination—key to processes that create good disabled and able-bodied neoliberal subjects—works to curtail who is perceived to have a desirable body. In order to desire disability differently, we must begin with marginal, h…
Engaging girls with disabilities in Vietnam: Making their voices count
This article addresses a theoretical and methodological intervention in support of inclusion for girls with disabilities in Vietnam. Drawing on an internationally collaborative project, Monitoring Educational Rights for Girls with Disabilities in Vietnamese schools, we critically engage the politics of inclusion and exclusion of girls with disabilities in education. Using a critical methodological framework that foregrounds the lived experiences …
The Neoliberal Circulation of Affects: Happiness, accessibility and the capacitation of disability as wheelchair
The International Symbol of Access (ISA) produces, capacitates, and debilitates disability in particular ways and is grounded by a happy affective economy that is embedded within neoliberal capitalism. This production of disability runs counter to the dismantling of ableism and compulsory able-bodiedness. In charting the development of the modern wheelchair, the rise of disability rights in North America, and the emergence of the ISA as a univers…
The Neoliberal Circulation of Affects: Happiness, accessibility and the capacitation of disability as wheelchair
The International Symbol of Access (ISA) produces, capacitates, and debilitates disability in particular ways and is grounded by a happy affective economy that is embedded within neoliberal capitalism. This production of disability runs counter to the dismantling of ableism and compulsory able-bodiedness. In charting the development of the modern wheelchair, the rise of disability rights in North America, and the emergence of the ISA as a univers…
Disability and sex work: Developing affinities through decriminalization
This article argues that strong policy frameworks are required to support the health and well-being of sex workers, disabled people, and disabled sex workers. Through an examination of the context of sex work in Canada, we articulate the flaws of sex work criminalization and the persistent barriers that criminalization creates. Our analysis of the intersection of disabled sexuality and access to sexual services identifies how the sex industry can…
Engaging girls with disabilities in Vietnam: Making their voices count
This article addresses a theoretical and methodological intervention in support of inclusion for girls with disabilities in Vietnam. Drawing on an internationally collaborative project, Monitoring Educational Rights for Girls with Disabilities in Vietnamese schools, we critically engage the politics of inclusion and exclusion of girls with disabilities in education. Using a critical methodological framework that foregrounds the lived experiences …
Desiring Disability Differently: Neoliberalism, Heterotopic Imagination and Intra-corporeal Reconfigurations
Challenging the undesirability of disability is a shared responsibility that requires us to imagine disability differently. In order to imagine disability differently, we need to understand how the neoliberal hegemonic social imagination—key to processes that create good disabled and able-bodied neoliberal subjects—works to curtail who is perceived to have a desirable body. In order to desire disability differently, we must begin with marginal, h…
Introduction: The Biosocial Politics of Queer/Crip Contagions
Introduction:The Biosocial Politics of Queer/Crip Contagions Kelly Fritsch (bio) and Anne McGuire (bio) In this special issue, we chart the limits and possibilities of queer/crip biosocial politics by examining the ways these ideas intersect and commingle with the narratives, practices, and temporalities of contagion. Crip and queer mark out, and indeed, flaunt the failures of normativity. And, in their fierce assertion of the possibility of an o…
Surface and Depth in Sensory Ethnography: Casting Bodied Experience in an Arts-Based Interviewing Practice
Arts-based research can provide pivotal avenues for researchers and participants to explore experiences that are difficult to put into words. Arts-based methods offer important opportunities for participants to develop reflexive understanding through material interaction with art and mark-making supplies. While sensorial and embodied experiences are entangled with arts-based methods, there is little methodological and theoretical work that puts a…
The Neoliberal Circulation of Affects: Happiness, accessibility and the capacitation of disability as wheelchair
The International Symbol of Access (ISA) produces, capacitates, and debilitates disability in particular ways and is grounded by a happy affective economy that is embedded within neoliberal capitalism. This production of disability runs counter to the dismantling of ableism and compulsory able-bodiedness. In charting the development of the modern wheelchair, the rise of disability rights in North America, and the emergence of the ISA as a univers…
Desiring Disability Differently: Neoliberalism, Heterotopic Imagination and Intra-corporeal Reconfigurations
Challenging the undesirability of disability is a shared responsibility that requires us to imagine disability differently. In order to imagine disability differently, we need to understand how the neoliberal hegemonic social imagination—key to processes that create good disabled and able-bodied neoliberal subjects—works to curtail who is perceived to have a desirable body. In order to desire disability differently, we must begin with marginal, h…
Engaging girls with disabilities in Vietnam: Making their voices count
This article addresses a theoretical and methodological intervention in support of inclusion for girls with disabilities in Vietnam. Drawing on an internationally collaborative project, Monitoring Educational Rights for Girls with Disabilities in Vietnamese schools, we critically engage the politics of inclusion and exclusion of girls with disabilities in education. Using a critical methodological framework that foregrounds the lived experiences …
Blood Functions: Disability, Biosociality, and Facts of the Body
The article examines how blood has historically functioned through modes of biocertification to co-produce race and disability in the US as a stable, biological property of an individual so as to be able to know and govern such social identities. It then traces how with the rise of genomic research, this biologically based stable-identification has become a form of “biosociality,” pointing to the novel alliances between patients, scientists, poli…
Disability and sex work: Developing affinities through decriminalization
This article argues that strong policy frameworks are required to support the health and well-being of sex workers, disabled people, and disabled sex workers. Through an examination of the context of sex work in Canada, we articulate the flaws of sex work criminalization and the persistent barriers that criminalization creates. Our analysis of the intersection of disabled sexuality and access to sexual services identifies how the sex industry can…
Reoccupying Desire
The “Bio” Politics of Matter and Mattering for Feminist Engagements with Biosocial, Biocultural, and Posthuman Embodiment
An abstract is not available for this content so a preview has been provided. Please use the Get access link above for information on how to access this content
Introduction: The Biosocial Politics of Queer/Crip Contagions
Introduction:The Biosocial Politics of Queer/Crip Contagions Kelly Fritsch (bio) and Anne McGuire (bio) In this special issue, we chart the limits and possibilities of queer/crip biosocial politics by examining the ways these ideas intersect and commingle with the narratives, practices, and temporalities of contagion. Crip and queer mark out, and indeed, flaunt the failures of normativity. And, in their fierce assertion of the possibility of an o…
Crip Technoscience Manifesto
As disabled people engaged in disability community, activism, and scholarship, our collective experiences and histories have taught us that we are effective agents of world building and dismantling toward more socially just relations.The grounds for social justice and world remaking, however, are frictioned;technologies, architectures, and infrastructures are often designed and implemented without committing to disability as a difference that mat…
Risk and the Spectral Politics of Disability
Drawing on the institutional history of the sperm bank and legacies of eugenics, we consider how spectrums of risk simultaneously constrain and expand possibilities for disability justice. We do so by examining the discourses surrounding US-based Xytex Corporation sperm bank Donor 9623, described as the 'perfect' donor but later discovered to have a criminal record and a diagnosis of schizophrenia. Haunted by the dread of disability, we examine h…
Disability Injustice: Confronting Criminalization in Canada
A Conversation with Comics Not Otherwise Specified (CNOS) (Interview)
Troubling Transplant Temporality through Crip Technoscience and a Sensory Aesthetics of Time, Machine, and Health
Taking up technologies that act as a “bridge” to transplant, we explore what the lifeworlds of a transplant patient and their loved ones interacting with these technologies tells us about the temporality of transplantation and the imperative of cure.By engaging with clinical literature and practices, transdisciplinary crip technoscience theorizing, and multimodal, multisensory artistic form, we bring together sick and disabled people’s expertise …
Introduction: Undoing and Unfolding Temporal Modes of Transplantation
Transplant medicine is frequently hailed as a pinnacle of biomedical achievement. Curative imaginaries in the field often situate transplant as a cure and a return to health, producing bifurcated temporalities of before and after transplant and proposing futures that erase disability and disabled bodies. This Special Section centers the frictions in transplant temporalities, offering examinations of how transplant troubles the binaries of life an…
Cripistemologies of Drug Use Against Transinstitutional Carceral Ableism
Across Canada, thousands of drug users are dying from a toxic illicit drug supply resulting from oppressive drug policies and regulations that reinforce the prohibition and criminalization of drug use and the pathologization and rehabilitation of drug users. Bringing together critical drug studies and critical disability studies, the article contributes cripistemologies of drug use to unpack some of the ways transinstitutional carceral ableism co…
Moving Together Towards Collective Access (Dispatch)
We Move Together (WMT) (Fritsch et al., 2021) is a picture book that follows a mixed-ability group of children as they move around their city community.We see the children move in different ways -fast, slow, using their feet as well as wheelchairs, scooters, crutches, bikes, and canes.Along the way, the kids encounter a great many people and animals, as well as a number of obstaclescommunication barriers, inaccessible infrastructure, political di…
Surface and Depth in Sensory Ethnography: Casting Bodied Experience in an Arts-Based Interviewing Practice
Arts-based research can provide pivotal avenues for researchers and participants to explore experiences that are difficult to put into words. Arts-based methods offer important opportunities for participants to develop reflexive understanding through material interaction with art and mark-making supplies. While sensorial and embodied experiences are entangled with arts-based methods, there is little methodological and theoretical work that puts a…
Psychosomatic Futurities: Cripping the Future of Cultural Psychiatry in a Posthuman Landscape
This paper explores the ways in which cultural psychiatry can contribute to the understanding of the larger culture of medicine, through critical engagements with dualisms that structure medicine's curative imaginary—a social imaginary that positions disability as a deviation, a tragedy, and a problem to be solved. Developed as an experimental form of image/text analysis from a sensory ethnographic study of solid organ transplantation and drawing…
Psychology (12 works) · Sociology (11 works) · Gender Studies (7 works) · Gender Studies (6 works) · Political science (6 works) · Art (5 works) · Disability Rights and Representation (5 works) · Politics (5 works) · Race, Genetics, and Society (5 works) · Aesthetics (4 works)