Striving Toward Access Intimacy
Speaker: Keat Welsh and Dev Ramsawakh Weaver: Kurt Music: Sam Sundar-Singh Keat Welsh BA, M.Ed is a white queer, disabled artist, community activist and educator. Keat is passionate about building communities of care and striving to create safer, anti-oppressive spaces. Living with both visible and invisible disabilities, they navigate complex experiences through art, activism and community care. Keat frequently speaks on panels at conferences and reviews academic papers. They ran the education program at the Centre for Independent Living in Toronto (CILT) as the IDE+A project coordinator from 2022-2026. Keat is the founder of Equity Buttons and a co-founder of Community Resistance Intimacy Project – CRIP. Keat is starting their PhD focusing on disability inclusion at the Dalla Lana School of Public Health (U of T) in the fall. Dev Ramsawakh is an award-winning disabled, transmasculine and diasporic Indo-Caribbean multidisciplinary storyteller, producer and educator. Along with facilitating workshops, they write articles, essays, poetry, and short fiction, and have produced audio segments for podcasts and online radio, as well as short experimental documentaries. Dev one of the co-founders of Community Resistance Intimacy Project – CRIP. Sam Sndar-Singh is an experienced musician,  able to fuse a warm sound and smooth beats with many different styles and tastes. You will appreciate his distinctive interpretations of songs you know and love. He has been a part of Sanctuary church in Toronto for 20 years, walking with people experiencing homelessness and poverty.
