The future of disability and gender: trans and disabled perspectives on healthcare and liberation
Welcoming Jamie Hale & Ruth Pearce as the speakers for the 10th Merton Equality Conversation
Jamie Hale is the Artistic Director of CRIPtic Arts, and CEO of Pathfinders Neuromuscular Alliance. They are a disabled multidisciplinary creative, a 2021-22 Jerwood Poetry Fellow, founder of the Disabled Poets' Prize, and winner of the Evening Standard Future Theatre Fund Director/Theatremaker of the Year for their show, NOT DYING. Jamie also leads in health and social care academic research and policy consultancy across the disability sector, having completed a MA in Philosophy, Politics and Economics of Health at UCL. Jamie is one of the 100 most influential disabled people in the UK (Disability Power 100) and has been featured across media including the Guardian, Sky News, BBC, ITV, and more.
Ruth Pearce is a queer activist, punk musician, and Lecturer in Community Development at the University of Glasgow. Her work explores issues of inequality, marginalisation, power, and transformative political struggle from a trans feminist perspective. She is the author of “Understanding Trans Health” (Policy Press, 2018), plus co-editor of “The Emergence of Trans” (Routledge, 2019) and “TERF Wars” (Sage, 2020). Ruth plays bass in noise-pop band wormboys, shouts a lot in queer punk trio Dispute Settlement Mechanism, and also blogs.
