J Rinaldi
Biographic Data
| ID | 37886 |
|---|---|
| NAME | J Rinaldi |
| GIVEN NAMES | J |
| FAMILY NAME | Rinaldi |
| SIGNATURE | RINALDI J |
| AFFILIATIONS | Ontario Tech University |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-0545-3941 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 20 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 78 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 20 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1999 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
Behind the Bricks: The Life and Times of the Mohawk Institute, Canada’s Longest-Running Residential School . Edited by Richard W. Hill, Sr, Alison Norman, Thomas Peace, and Jennifer Pettit
You don’t need criminal law to make cops: Reading carceral care work into reproductive healthcare policies in Vancouver
Medical-Legal Alliances: Encounters with Excited Delirium in Ontario Coronial Law
This theoretical paper analyzes Ontario coroner inquest reports that reference excited delirium from 1996 to 2023. The author argues that coroner inquest reporting engaged medical experts in work to exonerate law enforcement of white supremacist violence. Excited delirium as a racializing assemblage illustrates how the coroner inquest functions as a medico-legal tool that pulls focus from, and in so doing is designed to maintain, the violent inst…
The Flows of Racial Capitalism: Charting the Spread of Covid-19 through Alberta’s Meatpacking Industry
This article will present a case study of Cargill’s High River meatpacking plant operations to show how at crucial historical junctures racial capitalism shaped its working conditions and in so doing determined the spread of COVID-19. First, the Canadian meatpacking industry’s 1980s-era economic restructuring relocated and reorganized its workforce from a core to peripheral one, allowing for the low wage employment of many precarious workers; thi…
Failure to Launch: One-Person-One-Fare Airline Policy and the Drawbacks to the Disabled-By-Obesity Legal Argument
Since January 2009, the Canadian Transportation Agency has required domestic airlines to uphold a one-person-one-fare policy (1P1F), according to which passengers requiring additional seating due to disability – including persons found to be functionally disabled by obesity – are entitled to it without extra cost. In this article, the authors show that the jurisprudence that upholds 1P1F by design makes possible domestic airline policy and practi…
Huronia's Double Bind: How Institutionalisation Bears Out on the Body
Frequently missing from histories of forced institutionalisation are close readings of the enduring impact on survivors' corporeality. In this article the authors analyse interview data featuring people who survived the Huronia Regional Centre: a total institution designed to warehouse people with intellectual disabilities that operated in Canada from 1876 to 2009. These interviews reveal the impact of institutional technologies on the bodies of …
Bodies at the Intersections: Refiguring Intersectionality through Queer Women's Complex Embodiments
In this article we examine the challenges and possibilities of mobilizing intersectionality as a theoretical and methodological construct through a collaborative, arts-based research project. This project, Through Thick and Thin, explored how persons in queer communities who identify (partially or wholly) as women and who claim multiple intersecting positions negotiate, are affected by, and resist body ideals and body management expectations. We …
Mapping the circulation of fat hatred
The authors draw from affect theory and intersectionality-as-assemblage theory to conceptualize fatmisia as a complex affective force. In line with queer affect theorist Sara Ahmed’s theorizing of emotion, the authors explore how fat hatred circulates as an affective economy: how it flows across, attaches to, and comes to define or value different bodies. The authors analyze interview data compiled for the research project Through Thick & Thin to…
Queer Credibility in the Homonation-State: Interrogating the Affective Impacts of Credibility Assessments on Racialized Sexual Minority Refugee Claimants
This article critically appraises Canadian Immigration and Refugee Board decision-making that imposes burdens on diverse sexual orientation and gender identity and expression refugee claimants of colour to prove that they are queer according to homonationalist interpretations of queerness. This article examines decisions clustered around historical developments in the reception of racialized sexual minorities, including Canada (AG) v Ward, which …
Reconceptualizing temporality in and through multimedia storytelling: Making time with through thick and thin
What lessons about linearity are illuminated by the stories that engage our experience of queer fat bodies? The authors examine stories generated in the collaborative, community-based research project Through Thick and Thin. They analyze a selection of 3- to 7-minute microdocumentaries produced in the project that feature assemblages of queer sexuality, gender expression and identity, and other privileged or minoritized identifications (race, dis…
Introduction to the special issue: Fatness and temporality
As scholars, artists, and activists continue to contend with the question of who has a future, we are drawn to the relationship between fat and the social construction of time. In this introduction to the special issue of Fat Studies: An Interdisciplinary Journal of Body Weight and Society, we explore what fat reveals about time and what fat studies offers to current conceptions of temporality. We consider how fat existence and fat interventions …
“Of Dark Type and Poor Physique”: Law, Immigration Restriction, and Disability in Canada, 1900–30
Fatness and Failing Citizenship
This article examines how queer persons negotiate the technologies of health deployed to shape sexual citizenship, especially in relation to body size. Beginning with the claim that fatness is always already queered, the authors bring Jasbir Puar's concept of homonationalism into conversation with Samantha Murray's argument that fat persons are positioned as failed citizens. The authors illustrate how fat embodied subjects confront problematics o…
Imagining Disability Futurities
This article explores twelve short narrative films created by women and trans people living with disabilities and embodied differences. Produced through Project Re•Vision, these micro documentaries uncover the cultures and temporalities of bodies of difference by foregrounding themes of multiple histories: body, disability, maternal, medical, and/or scientific histories; and divergent futurities: contradictory, surprising, unpredictable, opaque, …
Seeking Equity: Disrupting a History of Exclusionary Immigration Frameworks
We argue that Canadian immigration law, policy, and practice have historically excluded, race and disability, on a number of grounds, and that there is a common link between them, which is the perception of immigrants’ inability to adapt and integrate into a Canadian identity. The paper conducts a historical analysis of the Canadian immigration framework situated at the intersection of identities based on race and disability, which we link throug…
Without Apology: Writings on Abortion in Canada
She has generously reviewed several chapters, and I appreciate her support, advice, and friendship throughout
Pedagogical possibilities for unruly bodies
Project Re•Vision uses disability arts to disrupt stereotypical understandings of disability and difference that create barriers to healthcare. In this paper, we examine how digital stories produced through Re•Vision disrupt biopedagogies by working as body-becoming pedagogies to create non-didactic possibilities for living in/with difference. We engage in meaning making about eight stories made by women and trans people living with disabilities …
Reflexivity in Research: Disability between the Lines
The purpose of this article is to consider the implications to reflexivity in disability research. The author begins by positioning herself in the field of disability studies, disclosing her own experiences. She goes on to trouble the expectation to disclose. The call to confess may be grounded in historical developments within feminist scholarship, including standpoint theory and research reflexivity—methodological tools that are certainly valua…
Availability of combination therapy for HIV: Effects on sexual risk taking in a sample of high-risk gay and bisexual men
The objective of this study was to assess the impact of successes in the medical treatment of HIV disease on the perceptions of high-risk gay and bisexual men attending an anonymous testing site towards becoming infected with HIV and on their decisions to have unsafe sex. A cross-sectional survey with a face-to-face interview and self-recorded information was used. A convenience sample of high-risk men seeking anonymous HIV antibody counselling w…
Name-based reporting of HIV-positive test results as a deterrent to testing
OBJECTIVES: This study evaluated attitudes toward name-based reporting of HIV. METHODS: One hundred thirty high-risk, male repeat testers received information on the public health benefits of name-based reporting and reported their intentions to test. RESULTS: Of the 67 men who were randomly selected and asked their intentions before hearing the benefits, 63% said they would not test if reporting were required. After hearing the benefits, 19% cha…
Imagining Disability Futurities
This article explores twelve short narrative films created by women and trans people living with disabilities and embodied differences. Produced through Project Re•Vision, these micro documentaries uncover the cultures and temporalities of bodies of difference by foregrounding themes of multiple histories: body, disability, maternal, medical, and/or scientific histories; and divergent futurities: contradictory, surprising, unpredictable, opaque, …
Pedagogical possibilities for unruly bodies
Project Re•Vision uses disability arts to disrupt stereotypical understandings of disability and difference that create barriers to healthcare. In this paper, we examine how digital stories produced through Re•Vision disrupt biopedagogies by working as body-becoming pedagogies to create non-didactic possibilities for living in/with difference. We engage in meaning making about eight stories made by women and trans people living with disabilities …
Bodies at the Intersections: Refiguring Intersectionality through Queer Women's Complex Embodiments
In this article we examine the challenges and possibilities of mobilizing intersectionality as a theoretical and methodological construct through a collaborative, arts-based research project. This project, Through Thick and Thin, explored how persons in queer communities who identify (partially or wholly) as women and who claim multiple intersecting positions negotiate, are affected by, and resist body ideals and body management expectations. We …
Seeking Equity: Disrupting a History of Exclusionary Immigration Frameworks
We argue that Canadian immigration law, policy, and practice have historically excluded, race and disability, on a number of grounds, and that there is a common link between them, which is the perception of immigrants’ inability to adapt and integrate into a Canadian identity. The paper conducts a historical analysis of the Canadian immigration framework situated at the intersection of identities based on race and disability, which we link throug…
Fatness and Failing Citizenship
This article examines how queer persons negotiate the technologies of health deployed to shape sexual citizenship, especially in relation to body size. Beginning with the claim that fatness is always already queered, the authors bring Jasbir Puar's concept of homonationalism into conversation with Samantha Murray's argument that fat persons are positioned as failed citizens. The authors illustrate how fat embodied subjects confront problematics o…
Queer Credibility in the Homonation-State: Interrogating the Affective Impacts of Credibility Assessments on Racialized Sexual Minority Refugee Claimants
This article critically appraises Canadian Immigration and Refugee Board decision-making that imposes burdens on diverse sexual orientation and gender identity and expression refugee claimants of colour to prove that they are queer according to homonationalist interpretations of queerness. This article examines decisions clustered around historical developments in the reception of racialized sexual minorities, including Canada (AG) v Ward, which …
Name-based reporting of HIV-positive test results as a deterrent to testing
OBJECTIVES: This study evaluated attitudes toward name-based reporting of HIV. METHODS: One hundred thirty high-risk, male repeat testers received information on the public health benefits of name-based reporting and reported their intentions to test. RESULTS: Of the 67 men who were randomly selected and asked their intentions before hearing the benefits, 63% said they would not test if reporting were required. After hearing the benefits, 19% cha…
Name-based reporting of HIV-positive test results as a deterrent to testing
OBJECTIVES: This study evaluated attitudes toward name-based reporting of HIV. METHODS: One hundred thirty high-risk, male repeat testers received information on the public health benefits of name-based reporting and reported their intentions to test. RESULTS: Of the 67 men who were randomly selected and asked their intentions before hearing the benefits, 63% said they would not test if reporting were required. After hearing the benefits, 19% cha…
Availability of combination therapy for HIV: Effects on sexual risk taking in a sample of high-risk gay and bisexual men
The objective of this study was to assess the impact of successes in the medical treatment of HIV disease on the perceptions of high-risk gay and bisexual men attending an anonymous testing site towards becoming infected with HIV and on their decisions to have unsafe sex. A cross-sectional survey with a face-to-face interview and self-recorded information was used. A convenience sample of high-risk men seeking anonymous HIV antibody counselling w…
Reflexivity in Research: Disability between the Lines
The purpose of this article is to consider the implications to reflexivity in disability research. The author begins by positioning herself in the field of disability studies, disclosing her own experiences. She goes on to trouble the expectation to disclose. The call to confess may be grounded in historical developments within feminist scholarship, including standpoint theory and research reflexivity—methodological tools that are certainly valua…
Without Apology: Writings on Abortion in Canada
She has generously reviewed several chapters, and I appreciate her support, advice, and friendship throughout
Pedagogical possibilities for unruly bodies
Project Re•Vision uses disability arts to disrupt stereotypical understandings of disability and difference that create barriers to healthcare. In this paper, we examine how digital stories produced through Re•Vision disrupt biopedagogies by working as body-becoming pedagogies to create non-didactic possibilities for living in/with difference. We engage in meaning making about eight stories made by women and trans people living with disabilities …
“Of Dark Type and Poor Physique”: Law, Immigration Restriction, and Disability in Canada, 1900–30
Fatness and Failing Citizenship
This article examines how queer persons negotiate the technologies of health deployed to shape sexual citizenship, especially in relation to body size. Beginning with the claim that fatness is always already queered, the authors bring Jasbir Puar's concept of homonationalism into conversation with Samantha Murray's argument that fat persons are positioned as failed citizens. The authors illustrate how fat embodied subjects confront problematics o…
Imagining Disability Futurities
This article explores twelve short narrative films created by women and trans people living with disabilities and embodied differences. Produced through Project Re•Vision, these micro documentaries uncover the cultures and temporalities of bodies of difference by foregrounding themes of multiple histories: body, disability, maternal, medical, and/or scientific histories; and divergent futurities: contradictory, surprising, unpredictable, opaque, …
Seeking Equity: Disrupting a History of Exclusionary Immigration Frameworks
We argue that Canadian immigration law, policy, and practice have historically excluded, race and disability, on a number of grounds, and that there is a common link between them, which is the perception of immigrants’ inability to adapt and integrate into a Canadian identity. The paper conducts a historical analysis of the Canadian immigration framework situated at the intersection of identities based on race and disability, which we link throug…
Reconceptualizing temporality in and through multimedia storytelling: Making time with through thick and thin
What lessons about linearity are illuminated by the stories that engage our experience of queer fat bodies? The authors examine stories generated in the collaborative, community-based research project Through Thick and Thin. They analyze a selection of 3- to 7-minute microdocumentaries produced in the project that feature assemblages of queer sexuality, gender expression and identity, and other privileged or minoritized identifications (race, dis…
Introduction to the special issue: Fatness and temporality
As scholars, artists, and activists continue to contend with the question of who has a future, we are drawn to the relationship between fat and the social construction of time. In this introduction to the special issue of Fat Studies: An Interdisciplinary Journal of Body Weight and Society, we explore what fat reveals about time and what fat studies offers to current conceptions of temporality. We consider how fat existence and fat interventions …
Mapping the circulation of fat hatred
The authors draw from affect theory and intersectionality-as-assemblage theory to conceptualize fatmisia as a complex affective force. In line with queer affect theorist Sara Ahmed’s theorizing of emotion, the authors explore how fat hatred circulates as an affective economy: how it flows across, attaches to, and comes to define or value different bodies. The authors analyze interview data compiled for the research project Through Thick & Thin to…
Queer Credibility in the Homonation-State: Interrogating the Affective Impacts of Credibility Assessments on Racialized Sexual Minority Refugee Claimants
This article critically appraises Canadian Immigration and Refugee Board decision-making that imposes burdens on diverse sexual orientation and gender identity and expression refugee claimants of colour to prove that they are queer according to homonationalist interpretations of queerness. This article examines decisions clustered around historical developments in the reception of racialized sexual minorities, including Canada (AG) v Ward, which …
Bodies at the Intersections: Refiguring Intersectionality through Queer Women's Complex Embodiments
In this article we examine the challenges and possibilities of mobilizing intersectionality as a theoretical and methodological construct through a collaborative, arts-based research project. This project, Through Thick and Thin, explored how persons in queer communities who identify (partially or wholly) as women and who claim multiple intersecting positions negotiate, are affected by, and resist body ideals and body management expectations. We …
Failure to Launch: One-Person-One-Fare Airline Policy and the Drawbacks to the Disabled-By-Obesity Legal Argument
Since January 2009, the Canadian Transportation Agency has required domestic airlines to uphold a one-person-one-fare policy (1P1F), according to which passengers requiring additional seating due to disability – including persons found to be functionally disabled by obesity – are entitled to it without extra cost. In this article, the authors show that the jurisprudence that upholds 1P1F by design makes possible domestic airline policy and practi…
Huronia's Double Bind: How Institutionalisation Bears Out on the Body
Frequently missing from histories of forced institutionalisation are close readings of the enduring impact on survivors' corporeality. In this article the authors analyse interview data featuring people who survived the Huronia Regional Centre: a total institution designed to warehouse people with intellectual disabilities that operated in Canada from 1876 to 2009. These interviews reveal the impact of institutional technologies on the bodies of …
The Flows of Racial Capitalism: Charting the Spread of Covid-19 through Alberta’s Meatpacking Industry
This article will present a case study of Cargill’s High River meatpacking plant operations to show how at crucial historical junctures racial capitalism shaped its working conditions and in so doing determined the spread of COVID-19. First, the Canadian meatpacking industry’s 1980s-era economic restructuring relocated and reorganized its workforce from a core to peripheral one, allowing for the low wage employment of many precarious workers; thi…
Medical-Legal Alliances: Encounters with Excited Delirium in Ontario Coronial Law
This theoretical paper analyzes Ontario coroner inquest reports that reference excited delirium from 1996 to 2023. The author argues that coroner inquest reporting engaged medical experts in work to exonerate law enforcement of white supremacist violence. Excited delirium as a racializing assemblage illustrates how the coroner inquest functions as a medico-legal tool that pulls focus from, and in so doing is designed to maintain, the violent inst…
Behind the Bricks: The Life and Times of the Mohawk Institute, Canada’s Longest-Running Residential School . Edited by Richard W. Hill, Sr, Alison Norman, Thomas Peace, and Jennifer Pettit
You don’t need criminal law to make cops: Reading carceral care work into reproductive healthcare policies in Vancouver
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