Workshops
Explore our talks and workshops designed from disabled knowledge to move from isolation to interdependence.
What We Offer
Tangled Histories: Weaving Together Queerness, Race, and Disability
Queer, disabled, and racialized bodies have long been criminalized, erased, and pathologized. This keynote connects past to present, revealing how these intersecting timelines shape the world we live in and how we might rewrite them together.
Spoon Alchemy: Reimagining Disabled Life Beyond Individualism
Together we will trace the legacy of eugenics in America and how it continues to shape our world today. We’ll connect historical patterns to present day experiences with disability. The session will explore and expand upon spoon theory and invite reflection on how we resist and reimagine in community.
Every barrier is an invitation to innovate. Centering disabled perspectives doesn’t just fix broken systems, it transforms them entirely. This talk reveals how disabled wisdom holds the keys to more creative, inclusive, and sustainable futures.
Disability Demands Innovation
Chronically Creative: How Interdependence Fuels Artistry
Disabled people often create in unconventional, deeply adaptive ways. In this experiential keynote, you’ll explore how disabled artists transform limits into magic. This talk celebrates the artistry that emerges through interdependence and invites you to taste that creativity yourself through interactive, accessible creativity practices.
Held Together: Building Care Webs and Putting Interdependence into Practice
What does it look like to live as if we need each other? This keynote moves from theory to practice, exploring how interdependence shows up in real relationships and daily life. Through personal storytelling, it reveals what it means to build and sustain care webs (mutual aid networks).
Watch Xander’s TEDx Talk
What to say to someone with a chronic illness
Most of us want to connect, but the words we reach for can sometimes push people away. In this TEDx talk, Xander Peer Keller shares how a simple shift in language can change everything — especially for those of us living with chronic illness. Through humor, story, and lived experience, Xander reveals what not to say to someone with chronic illness — and what we can say instead to create space for honesty, dignity, and real connection. This talk isn’t only about illness. It’s about how to talk to someone who is struggling, how to choose presence over fixing, and how to build relationships rooted in empathy.