The work that
demands to exist.
Dr. Kat Stephens-Peace is a scholar, educator, and poet whose work lives at the intersection of Critical Dis/Ability Studies, Black feminist thought, and Caribbean epistemology — channeled through arts-based research methods that refuse the boundaries of traditional scholarship.
Dr. Kat Stephens-Peace is a Caribbean-born, disability-identified scholar whose intellectual project bridges the personal and the political. Her scholarship interrogates how systems of power construct ability, knowledge, and belonging — and how marginalized communities create counter-narratives through art, embodiment, and refusal.
She doesn't just study these intersections — she inhabits them. Every lecture, poem, and publication is an act of worldmaking.
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"The body is a text. The poem is a method. The method is the revolution."— Dr. KSP
Critical Dis/Ability Studies
Interrogating how disability is constructed, performed, and policed across educational and cultural institutions — with particular attention to race, gender, and geography.
ExploreBlack Feminist Scholarship
Drawing on the intellectual traditions of Black women thinkers to theorize resistance, knowledge production, and the politics of care within academic spaces.
ExploreCaribbean Epistemology
Rooting scholarly inquiry in Caribbean ways of knowing — where diaspora, creolization, and island consciousness produce distinct frameworks for understanding the world.
ExploreArts-Based Research Methods
Scholarship that refuses to sit still. Research that sings, performs, and builds worlds.
Poetic Inquiry
Poetry is not decoration — it is a research methodology. Dr. KSP uses poetic inquiry to excavate truths that traditional academic prose cannot reach. The poem becomes data, analysis, and findings simultaneously.
Performance as Research
The stage is a research site. Embodied performance generates knowledge that cannot be extracted through surveys or interviews alone.
Autoethnography
The self as site of inquiry. Critical autoethnography places lived experience at the center of scholarly investigation — not as anecdote, but as evidence.
Speaking
Keynotes, panels, and invited lectures that ignite rooms and challenge assumptions.
Black Feminist Disability Framework: Experiences of Black Women in Graduate School
Full-length keynote addresses on disability justice, arts-based research, and the radical possibilities of embodied scholarship.
Interactive sessions that move beyond lecture — participants leave with frameworks they can use immediately.
Podcast appearances, interviews, and commentary that bring scholarly insight to public conversation.
Media gallery launching soon
A curated collection of keynote clips, podcast features, performances, and visual archives is in development.
Contact
For speaking inquiries, collaborations, media requests, or to connect about the work.
"Every collaboration is a chance to build a world that doesn't exist yet."— Dr. KSP