ABSTRACT
From September 2006 to July 2008, the School of Disability Studies at Ryerson University in Toronto produced an exhibit titled Out from Under: Disability, History and Things to Remember. Activist in its content and orientation alike, the exhibit both championed historical acts and moments of social transformation at the same time as it proceeded from an activist curatorial position — one intended to contribute to progressive understandings of disablement. The authors of this chapter were all involved; Catherine, Melanie and Kathryn as co-curators, Phaedra as one of fourteen exhibitors. 2 In this reflective account, we narrate our way from the invitation that sparked the School's engagement to the exhibit's initial installation in a disability arts festival, to its further installation in a premier Canadian cultural venue — the Royal Ontario Museum (ROM).
