Jessie Myfanwy Stainton

Thesis title: Craft-based Interviews: Intervening in Intellectual Ableism Through Research-Creation

Jessie is an emergent researcher and artist who has completed her master's in Media Studies at Concordia University. Her research-creation thesis explored intellectual disability, sensory design and storytelling through textile creation. Drawing on co-design strategies, she utilized craft-based methodology and textiles-as-media to explore the boundaries of communication, addressing the sensory hierarchies embedded within.

Interdisciplinary by nature, her areas of interest weave around her textile practice, critical disability studies, affect and feminist theories, sustainability and questions of corporeality. Jessie was a core member of the Access in the Making Lab and a member of the Centre for Sensory Studies, Textiles & Materiality Milieux Cluster, and the Feminist Media Studio.

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