Revisioning Fitness through Non-normative Embodiment
Funding Agency: | Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada Insight Development Grant |
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Principal Investigator | Aly Bailey |
Co-Investigator: | Carla Rice, Tara-Leigh McHugh and Evadne Kelly |
Co-Researchers: | Bongi Dube, Paul Tshuma, Salima Punjani, Skylar Sookpaiboon, Kayla Besse, and seeley quest |
Research Assistant | Meredith Bessey |
By “cripping,” “queering,” and “thickening” fitness, Revisioning Fitness will work towards the creation of an accessibility tool kit, and foster stakeholder connections with non-profit and for profit fitness organizations, imagining a transformation in the way fitness is conceptualized and practiced. This project brings together a high caliber, interdisciplinary national research team to generate knowledge and explore new understandings about movement and fitness through centering the experiential insights of nonnormatively embodied people and to explore potential contributions of digital storytelling and a minidocumentary to ongoing conversations about inclusion, accessibility, and difference with fitness and movement.