disability studies | The Harriet Tubman Institute /research/tubman The Harriet Tubman Institute at ¿ì²¥ÊÓƵ Wed, 16 Apr 2025 14:21:40 +0000 en-CA hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 Daysha Loppie /research/tubman/profile/daysha-loppie/ Mon, 07 Apr 2025 19:54:24 +0000 /research/tubman/?post_type=profile&p=8505 Daysha Loppie is a journalist and researcher based in Toronto. She has a Bachelor of Journalism and a Black Studies minor from Toronto Metropolitan University. Her journalism was published in the Toronto Star, West End Phoenix, ByBlacks, The Local and more. She’s interested in long-form feature writing and primarily covers Black communities, social justice, business, arts and culture. Daysha is also interested in Black feminist theory and praxis, disability studies, communication and culture. She is a co-author of Possibilities of Care within Institutional Constraints: A Case ¿ì²¥ÊÓƵ in Black Creative Knowledge Production. Daysha is writing her major research project on the subjugation of Black women in the medical field of gynaecology. 

Keywords: disability studies, reproductive justice, Black feminist theory, social and political thought,

]]> Theophilus Okunlola /research/tubman/profile/theophilus-okunlola/ Tue, 06 Feb 2024 21:12:18 +0000 /research/tubman/?post_type=profile&p=7675 Theophilus Okunlola's research is situated at the intersections of Disability studies, African cultural studies, Cultural Memory, Environmental Humanities and Visual Cultures. He is working on a project that explores visibility as a key concept in the political and cultural representations of disability in Africa.

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