Broken Worlds, Disabled Kin

Authors Kelly Fritsch and Anne McGuire argue that we live in a world broken by design: a web of systems that debilitate and destroy through racist and ableist infrastructural neglect, socioeconomic abandonment, and ecological negligence. Fixes for these forms of breakage often conceal and amplify harm—but what happens if we refuse to rehabilitate this inhospitable world? Charting a politics of solidarity capable of cultivating worlds where we sustain each other instead of the systems that harm us, Broken Worlds, Disabled Kin: Struggles for Collective Survival (2026, University of Minnesota Press) traces how relations of care, access, and justice are fostered amid social, ecological, and political collapse. By showing that care for disabled life is inseparable from care for the infrastructures and environments that sustain us, the book asks what it means to be accountable not only to one another but also to the fragile material relations that make collective life possible. 

Join us for an exciting conversation between authors Kelly Fritsch (Carleton University) and Anne McGuire (University of Toronto), and discussants Natalie Kouri-Towe (Simone de Beauvoir Institute), Nashwa Khan (Disabled Women’s Network of Canada), and Gracen Brilmyer (McGill University).

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Organized by the Simone de Beauvoir Institute.