College Art Association annual conference (Feb 12-15, 2025)
In the museum: Crip time as/is care time - presentation in the session On Crip Time - I continue to explore counter-normative time in this paper through time-based media where Simone taught me both slow art viewing and to resist the restlessness to move on to the next art object. In different museum visits, she stopped to view media by Dara Birnbaum, Andy Warhol, and Ebony G. Patterson, which all exemplify an altered experience of time.
Graphic Medicine Technological University of the Shannon, Athlone, Ireland (July 16-18, 2024)
Alongside neurodivergency: visualizing trauma with comics and care- a poster presentation of a new in-process project Trauma is a stuckness, in the body, in the mind, in the memory of a happening that was “too much”. To move with and through the trauma, the visceral memory needs to be retrieved and cared for.
Cripping the ComicCon - Syracuse University (April 7, 2024)
Keynote speaker - Comics and Caregiving Crip time makes time to take care.
University Art Association Banff Centre (October 19 -21, 2023)
Roundtable Room for Everyone: Opening Doors for Artist-parents and Their Families Led by Mothra Artist - Parent Project
Graphic Medicine UToronto (July 13-15, 2023)
Comics, Caregiving and Crip Time - a slow reading of my book chapter in Sugar and Spice and Not so Nice (Leuven UP)
Graphic Medicine (Re)Connecting UChicago (July 16, 2022)
Participated in the panel “Graphic Medicine: Stories Drawn from Illness, Health, and Caregiving” along with speakers who contributed to Graphic Medicine (U of Hawai’i Press)
Brown Bag Biography (Life Writing at University of Hawai’i at Manoa, November 3, 2022)
Participated in the panel “Graphic Medicine: Stories Drawn from Illness, Health, and Caregiving” along with speakers who contributed to Graphic Medicine (U of Hawai’i Press), video link here
Hawaiian Book and Music Festival - Graphic Medicine Panel October 11, 2022
Speaker at the festival as part of the panel “Graphic Medicine: Stories Drawn from Illness, Health, and Caregiving” along with speakers who contributed to Graphic Medicine (U of Hawai’i Press
Graphic Medicine Unconvention (August 13-15, 2021)
What are you working on? https://www.graphicmedicine.org/2021-graphic-medicine-unconvention-what-are-you-working-on/
Session: Disability in Girl Comics (Chair: John Miers) Comics, Caregiving and Crip Time. Crip time is non-normative, it is not on a clock, it doesn’t adhere to expectations, it can be felt in terms of speed, ie slower. It can also stand still for indeterminate periods. It does not follow a trajectory from beginning to end with a desired result, it can be just more of the same without closure or completion. It is omnipresent, in the present. There is slippage and excess when normative time and crip time are experienced side by side.
Comics/Politics: Comics Studies Society annual conference (July 25-27, 2019)
Ryerson (now Metropolitan) University, Toronto
Session: A different kind of art history: Comics and social justice. Examined contemporary and historical comics - The comics form is unique precisely because it can serve as a visual witness to the embodied lives lived outside the normative social structure and can work to make space for subjugated knowledge.
“Drawing Yourself In and Out of It”: The 2nd International Amsterdam Comics Conference (15-17. November 2018)
Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam
Session: Disability, daily drawn - encounters with difference. -This paper reads my drawing practice through comics’ theory, more specifically the subgenre of autographics coined by Whitlock and DeFalco's ethics of care. My daily practice draws upon the methods of Taussig’s fieldwork observations and Myers’ “affective entanglement of inquiry”.
The International Auto/Biography Association, Chapter of the Americas Conference (May 15-17, 2017)
Lives Outside the Lines: Gender and Genre in the Americas: A Symposium in Honour of Marlene Kadar, York University, Toronto
Session: Disability, Daily, Drawn - Transposing emcounters into a comic a day makes the imperceptible visible and in so doing, encapsulates each encounter to be viewed and considered, individually and as a multi-page sequence.