Co-directors
Lisbeth A. Berbary is a Tkaranto/Toronto based scholar whose work and organizing engages with liberatory theorypractices rooted in decolonial, anti-imperial, abolitionist, and anti-capitalist traditions. Her scholarship towards community building, collaborative knowledge mobilization, and interrelational inquiry has been represented through creative analytic practices such as poetry, comic, screenplay, art-based workshops, and zine creations, at times working alongside local artists. Lisbeth has organized towards harm reduction for peoples warehoused within American prisons, maximum security youth detention centers, addiction treatment centers, and long-term care facilities. She has also organized with queer/trans*, disability justice, and Black radical solidarity movements, and has participated in and developed curriculum for political education through the Black Alliance for Peace Solidary Network and the Autonomous University for Political Education.
Craig Fortier (they/them) is a Tkaronto/Toronto based scholar and community organizer. They have worked as a social worker in housing, youth organizing, and non-profit funding organizations while also organizing with migrant justice, queer/trans*, anarcha-feminist, anti-capitalist, and Indigenous solidarity movements. They are the author of the book Unsettling the Commons: Social Movements Within, Against, and Beyond Settler Colonialism and an editor of the anthology Abolish Social Work (As We Know It). Craig is also a coordinator for the Field of Dreamers Cooperative Softball Association, a political project that centres the experiences of trans and non-binary players in recreational sports, creates space for relationship-building among Toronto-based organizers, and asserts spaces of play as political. Last season they started at shortstop for the Don River Curse Breakers winning their first championship after several years of heartbreaking defeats.
Everyone is welcome
From students to community members and everyone in between, our Lab offerings are open to all who share our commitment to theorypracticing for liberatory change.
Whether you attend a single offering or show up to them all, our Lab desires to become an undercommons (Harney & Moten, 2013) for those of us activated by mutual comradeship (Burden-Stelly, 2022), collective organizing, and political education in alignment with those heritages of resistance modeled through liberation movements across the globe.