Academics
Danielle Peers, PhD
Canada Research Chair in Disability and Movement Cultures (SSHRC, Tier II)
Associate Professor
Faculty of Kinesiology, Sport, and Recreation
University of Alberta
Co-Director: Just Movements CreateSpace
Research interests include: disability justice; Paralympism & disability sport; queer/crip theory, art & practice; Foucault; critical disability studies; genealogy; auto-ethnography; arts-based research & research creation, learn more...
Danielle Peers, PhD
Canada Research Chair in Disability and Movement Cultures (SSHRC, Tier II)
Associate Professor
Faculty of Kinesiology, Sport, and Recreation
University of Alberta
Co-Director: Just Movements CreateSpace
Research interests include: disability justice; Paralympism & disability sport; queer/crip theory, art & practice; Foucault; critical disability studies; genealogy; auto-ethnography; arts-based research & research creation, learn more...
Artistic Works
Co-founder: KingCrip Productions & CRIPSiE (Collaborative Radically Integrated Performers)
Video Art: Seven finished films (including G.I.M.P. Bootcamp, And the Rest is Drag, New Constellations, and Otherwise)
Curator: Three art shows, including, Crip Tease: An Evening of Irreverent Art
Performer: Dance and performance artist with CRIPSiE and other collaborators learn more...
Co-founder: KingCrip Productions & CRIPSiE (Collaborative Radically Integrated Performers)
Video Art: Seven finished films (including G.I.M.P. Bootcamp, And the Rest is Drag, New Constellations, and Otherwise)
Curator: Three art shows, including, Crip Tease: An Evening of Irreverent Art
Performer: Dance and performance artist with CRIPSiE and other collaborators learn more...
Athletics
Team Canada wheelchair basketball athlete (2003-2008).
Paralympic Bronze Medal (Athens, 2004)
World Championship (2006)
5 time Canadian National Champions (Edmonton Inferno)
Selected Individual Awards:
World's Most Valuable Player (2006)
MVP Canada Women (2004; 2007)
MVP, European Men’s Club Champions Cup (2006)
Finalist for International Sportswoman of the Year (2007) learn more...
Team Canada wheelchair basketball athlete (2003-2008).
Paralympic Bronze Medal (Athens, 2004)
World Championship (2006)
5 time Canadian National Champions (Edmonton Inferno)
Selected Individual Awards:
World's Most Valuable Player (2006)
MVP Canada Women (2004; 2007)
MVP, European Men’s Club Champions Cup (2006)
Finalist for International Sportswoman of the Year (2007) learn more...
Speaking & Community Organizing
Bilingual public keynote speaker:
World Conference of Women's Shelters; National Firefighters Conference; Canadian Francophone Games; National Youth In Action MDC Conference
Community organizing:
Moderator - National Roundtable on Disability and Human Rights (2012)
Co-founder - SPACE (Sustainable, Political, Accessible Communities of Edmonton)
National Ambassador - Muscular Dystrophy Canada learn more...
Bilingual public keynote speaker:
World Conference of Women's Shelters; National Firefighters Conference; Canadian Francophone Games; National Youth In Action MDC Conference
Community organizing:
Moderator - National Roundtable on Disability and Human Rights (2012)
Co-founder - SPACE (Sustainable, Political, Accessible Communities of Edmonton)
National Ambassador - Muscular Dystrophy Canada learn more...
