Some of my past publications:
Poetry and essays
2026
Here’s a Wheelchair Metaphor for You. Ave Astra.
Selections from Float. Ministry of Casual Living Gallery: Good Grief Exhibit, Victoria, BC.
How to float. A Quiet Storm Online Art Gallery. https://www.aquietstorm.me/
2024
Long Covid Winter. In Lucky Dip Poems: Sick Stories.
Opus. In Emerge Anthology.
2022
Wednesday hangouts. Font Magazine. https://fontmag.ca/issue/unruly-writers/article/wednesday-hangouts
2021
Will COVID-19 change how we think about disability? The Walrus. https://thewalrus.ca/will-covid-19-change-how-we-think-about-disability/
2020
Less sweet than chocolate or concrete [Chapbook]. Frog Hollow Press. https://prismmagazine.ca/2021/01/14/complicities-a-review-of-aimee-louws-less-sweet-than-chocolate-or-concrete/
Cat days. In Disabled Voices. Rebel Mountain Press. https://headhousebooks.com/book/9781775301950
Selection from Less sweet than chocolate or concrete. Hamilton Arts & Letters.
2019
Where is the disability beat in Canada? Canadaland. https://www.canadaland.com/where-is-the-disability-beat-in-canada/
“Future Crip Ancestors,” Geez Magazine digital, issue 52. https://geezmagazine.org/magazine/issue/issue-52
2018
Federal disability law must tackle more than just discrimination in employment. Ricochet Media. https://ricochet.media/politics/canada/federal-disability-laws-must-tackle-more-than-just-discrimination-in-employment/
Review
“one of Less Sweet’s most impressive attributes comes to the fore: the way Louw disrupts our expectations. Poetry chapbooks rarely include an introduction, and this introduction is the first I’ve read that begins in prose before literally unravelling down the page. By inhabiting the interstice between prose and free verse, Louw’s poetry postpones a sense of familiarity: both form and content dramatize the “struggle between conforming and outlying.””
- Neil Surkan, PRISM international: CONTEMPORARY WRITING FROM CANADA AND THE WORLD
Hybrid and Academic
Louw, A. (2021). Paved Trails and Shampoo Shopping. Canadian Journal of Disability Studies, (10) 2, 179-195. https://cjds.uwaterloo.ca/index.php/cjds/article/view/796
Louw, A. (2019). Paved Trails: Crip Poetics as an approach towards decolonizing accessibility. [Masters thesis, Concordia University]. Concordia Spectrum Research Repository. https://spectrum.library.concordia.ca/id/eprint/985782/
Acton, K., Johnson, M., Jung, K., Louw, A., McAskill, A., Simões Peres, M., quest, s., & Watkin, J. (2019). Being in relationship: Reflections on dis-performing, hospitality, and accessibility. Canadian Theatre Review, 177(1), 51–56. https://doi.org/10.3138/ctr.177.008
Louw, A., (2014). The Role of New Media in Post-Demonstration Mobilization (PDM). [Undergraduate honours thesis, Concordia University].
Louw, A., (2012). Our House: Creating Space in Canada through Self Expression. The Concordia Undergraduate Journal of Political Science Essays (CUJPSE).
Audio
2023
Accessible Fashion. All accessibility summer column, CBC radio syndicated. https://www.cbc.ca/radio/all-accessibility-summer-accessible-fashion-transcript-1.6892190
2022
Ride along in Aimee’s wheelchair-adapted van. CBC Radio.
How the 20% get around. CBC Radio.
2018
Will the Accessible Canada Act do anything to stop airlines from breaking wheelchairs? CBC Radio Day 6.
What The Shape of Water gets wrong about disability. CBC Radio Day 6. https://www.cbc.ca/radio/day6/episode-379-populism-in-italy-s-elections-greenland-s-ice-melt-the-shape-of-water-ode-to-cds-and-more-1.4555633/what-the-shape-of-water-gets-wrong-about-disability-1.4555657
SELECTED PRESENTATIONS & WORKSHOPS
Louw, A. (2023). Accessibility in Educational Settings. Lester B. Pearson School Board, Montreal.
Louw, A. (2023). Unspectacular belonging: Rethinking accessibility and inclusion through self-knowledge. English Language Arts Network, Montreal.
Louw, A. (2023). In practice: Community engagement and accessibility in the arts. Montreal.
Louw, A. (2020). Accessing ourselves: Crips poetics and writing our desires. Growing Room Literature Festival, Vancouver.
Louw, A. (2017). The future is accessible. The Walrus Talks, Toronto.
Louw, A. (2017). What Would a Less Colonial Access Politic Look Like? Convergence Conference: Unsettling the Americas: Radical Hospitalities and Intimate Geographies, Toronto.
Louw, A. (2016). Congress of Arts and Social Sciences Meetings, University of Calgary, Alberta.
Louw, A. (2017). Presenting my MA research-in-progress. Performing Embodied Oralities in the Americas II. National Museum of Memory, Bogotá, Colombia.