who is meg ingram?

Megan (Meg) Ingram (they/them) is a queer, lesbian, and multiply-disabled artist, activist, educator, and academic living as an uninvited white settler on the lands of the Attiwonderonk and the Haudenosaunee peoples in what is colonially known as Guelph, Ontario.

Meg is PhD student and Vanier Scholar in the Social Practice and Transformational Change program at the University of Guelph. Here, their work exists at the intersections and boundaries of disparate disciplines such as pain studies and queer theory to explore the lived experience of queer people assigned female at birth (AFAB). Their Vanier Canada Graduate Scholarship funded research project “Do You Believe Me?”: Exploring AFAB LGBTQ2SIA+ People's Emotional Experiences of Reproductive Pain Measurement" aims to critically intervene on the flattening process enacted by normative pain scales, and asks AFAB LGBTQ2SIA+ participants to engage, through rigorous interview and co-created art, with their relationship to both pain and pain scales.

At the University of Guelph, Meg is also a Graduate Research Assistant at the Live Work Well Research Centre, and a Graduate Research Assistant and Digital Storytelling Facilitator at The Re•Vision Centre for Art and Social Justice.

Beyond the University of Guelph, Meg is also a Creative Scholar in Virtual Residence at the LGBTQ+ Oral History Digital Collaboratory housed at the University of Toronto. Here, they are the lead researcher of a new component of a SSHRC Insight Grant that seeks to explore and counter-archive queer and disabled activisms in Toronto.

They are heavily invested in pedagogy as a liberatory practice—a commitment to education that they take into community and post-secondary contexts. They have facilitated countless community-based workshops, worked as a Disability Justice Research Fellow at the Queen’s University Centre for Teaching and Learning, and are currently a Teaching Adjunct in the school of Kinesiology and Health Studies at Queen’s University.

This investment in approachable and accessible education and interdisciplinary inquiry is entangled in their creative practice. As a documentary film maker, they primarily produce short films that explore identity, memory, and life at the intersections of queerness and disability. In particular, they are interested in creating films that can be integrated into educational contexts to bridge gaps in understanding and experience.

Beyond all of this, they love to craft, and immerse themselves in a good mystery novel, and engage in amateur birding on walks with their partner.