Renee DumaresqueCA
Renee Dumaresque lives in between St. John’s and Toronto and works as a community organizer, psychotherapist and PhD candidate at the intersection of creative, critical, and chaotic thought. They are a co-founder of Crip Rave, a Toronto-based event platform and consulting hub prioritizing Crip, Mad, Deaf, Disabled, and Sick partygoers and talent within safer and more accessible rave spaces. They are also a co-founder and long-time organizer of Showing Up for Racial Justice (SURJ) Toronto, and a Board member of the Social Justice Co-Operative of Newfoundland and Labrador. Their writing on music and sound, queerness, disability justice, race, and colonization can be found in open-source publications including, Intersectionalities: A Global Journal of Social Work Analysis, Research, Polity, and Practice, Journal of Feminist Scholarship, and New Sociology: Journal of Critical Praxis.
