All Things Being Equal is an ongoing project in collaboration with JD Derbyshire, Catherine Frazee and other Crip artists. This project attempts to engage in critical discourse about the very real and unequal social context of Canadians with disabilities, and how this intersects with Medical Assistance in Dying, specifically Track 2 (MAIDT2)

MAID (Track 1) was legalized in Canada in 2016 and was initially designed for people whose natural death was foreseeable - people typically in the final stages of their life. In 2021 the legal code expanded MAID eligibility, despite forceful and continued opposition from Disabled Canadians. MAID Track 2 provides a pathway for state administered death, offered uniquely to disabled people, who are not dying.

Care Quilts

Care Quilts are data portraits of two possible realities - The first is the current social context of Canadians with disabilities, demonstrated through actual facts and statistics, and how this reality intersects with MAIDT2. The second interpretation of this data set is a speculative fiction of what our social context could be instead. This data has been translated into quilt patterns, sized to cover one body.

The data portraits are still in development < here is a slide show of the early drawings which are not yet complete.