Deadline: 16-Feb-22
Applications are now open for CREATE Fellowships on disability, gender and sexual diversity, and intersex rights!
The CREATE Fellowship program seeks to support knowledge production, art, storytelling and community ideas for change that embrace sexual and gender diversity, intersex rights, and disability intersections and connections.
CREA is committed to cross-movement work, re-imagining collectively how to dismantle power structures and support relationship building for a more intersectional feminist activism. In line with this commitment and with growing interest from activists, CREA seeks to deepen understanding of the interplay between sexual and gender diversity, intersex rights and disability, and in particular, from a global South perspective. To do this, CREA will provide fellowships to deepen understanding and strengthen cross-movement collaboration around sexual and gender diversity, intersex and disability rights.
CREATE fellowships will support activists, artists, researchers, and community organizers who are already engaged in work at these intersections. They will bring greater attention to work that is already happening at these intersections, draw out the shared ground, faultlines, and nuances between disability, sexual and gender diversity, and intersex movements, and generate greater understanding and interest in cross-movement solidarity. It is also an opportunity to have conversations and examine inequalities within social movements (i.e. ableism within LGBTQ spaces or homophobia within disability rights movements) and propose tactics to dismantle them.
Aim
The fellowships will support the production of knowledge, art, and storytelling through scholarship, art, and activism. The fellowships will strengthen individual efforts to draw out the connections and build collective knowledge and action. The knowledge, art, and experiences that emerge from the fellowships will form the basis of cross-movement dialogue and will reshape, rethink and reboot CREA’s future work.
Fellowship Scope
- Fellowship themes can explore a range of topics at the intersections of sexual and gender diversity, intersex rights, and disability. Chosen topics should address intersectionality, support cross-movement building, and bring forward new perspectives and information on under-explored issues.
- For example, fellowships could address topics such as:
- Access to intimacy at the intersection of sexual and gender diversity, intersex and disability;
- Medicalization of transgender, intersex, and disabled bodies;
- Access to sexual and reproductive healthcare within homophobic and ableist contexts;
- Anti-colonial perspectives on sexual and gender diversity, intersex and disability;
- Mapping common advocacy priorities across intersex, disability, and sexual and gender diversity movements and documentation of emerging cross-movement spaces.
What support CREA provides to fellows?
Financial support of 8000 USD will be provided to each of 6 fellows to develop their knowledge resource over the course of nine months. Fellows will work with resource advisors who have expertise in sexual and gender diversity, disability and intersex rights. Workshops will be held to support cross-fertilization and share ideas. Peer review will be a part of the process. Fellows can also apply for funds to cover accessibility accommodations as well as accessibility costs for their final work (for example having a film transcribed or a publication made into Easy-to-Read format). Final outcomes of the fellowships are expected to acknowledge CREA’s contribution. The output of the fellowship will be jointly owned by the fellow and CREA. CREA will facilitate peer review and, where relevant, ethics review of the project. CREA will support wide dissemination through its networks and platforms. The outputs of the fellowships will use open source solutions to be widely available and accessible to the public.
Eligibility Criteria
Activists, scholars, artists, storytellers, and community organizers working with an intersectional approach on disability, sexual and gender diversity, and intersex rights can apply. They encourage applicants who have lived experience at these intersections and those who are involved in social change in the disability, sexual and gender diversity, feminist and/or intersex rights movements. They especially encourage individuals from the global South to apply. They also invite members of structurally excluded groups in the global North, such as indigenous peoples, people who experience racial, ethnic, or religious discrimination, immigrant communities, among others, to apply.
For more information, visit https://creaworld.org/create-fellowships/
